[Robert DeLong]

The BMP-3 is a Soviet and Russian infantry fighting vehicle, successor to the BMP-1 and BMP-2. The abbreviation BMP stands for boevaya mashina pehoty (боевая машина пехоты, literally "infantry combat vehicle")

I was wondering what BMP stood for, this was what I found. So, I assume BMP must be infantry combat unit, when presented as Russian BMP.

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боевая машина пехоты

Russian can have interesting senteb e and phrase constructs. While we call it an IFV Infantry Fighting Vehicle literally it translates as COMBAT (or BATTLE) VEHICLE INFANTRY