The daddy of the Infantry Fighting Vehicle.
1 posted on
03/05/2015 4:46:50 AM PST by
C19fan
To: C19fan
The BMP Is Part Tank, Part Taxi and part death trap by fire.
Whoever put those thin gas tanks as doors on the back was probably hanged by the KGB.
2 posted on
03/05/2015 4:57:15 AM PST by
DCBryan1
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To: C19fan
The BTR-90 is its latest offspring, using 8 wheels over tracks. More speed and maneuverability, with updated armament.
3 posted on
03/05/2015 5:03:33 AM PST by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: C19fan
With one really cool and significant advantage over other IFVs: the infantry passengers can fire their individual weapons from within the vehicle.
IFVs have always been slightly armored boxes to transport infantry but usually they were at the mercy whoever was driving the thing and if there was somebody with the nerve to man the machine gun out in the breeze. The BMP not only had a bad-ass turret but firing ports for the passengers.
5 posted on
03/05/2015 5:31:43 AM PST by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: C19fan
6 posted on
03/05/2015 6:23:04 AM PST by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: C19fan
Otherwise known as an Apache appetizer.
8 posted on
03/05/2015 9:19:42 AM PST by
TADSLOS
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