9/8/2023 0 Comments Bmp-2 tanks the modern ageThe vehicle’s biggest flaw is its steel armor, which is just a quarter-inch thick in some places and can’t even stop heavy machine guns firing armor-piercing rounds. Its turret has blind spots: it can’t rotate through 10 o’clock without the gun running into the hull-mounted searchlight. Its low-velocity 73-millimeter gun is unimpressive. The 13-ton, three-crew BMP-1 has other problems. A direct hit can set off the ammo, with obvious negative implications for the infantry sitting right next to the exploding shells. For one, the BMP-1 stows ammunition in the passenger compartment. A Russian MT-LB APC can pack in 10 or 11 infantry a BMP-1 IFV squeezes in just eight.īut even that modest troop-capacity meant major design compromises as BMP-inventor Pavel Isakov struggled to balance firepower, protection and payload. That requires thicker armor and bigger weapons than you’d find on an APC, which tends to weigh on an IFV’s passenger capacity. It hauls infantry into battle and, unlike an APC, also stays and fights. They’re too lightly armed, too lightly protected.Īn infantry fighting vehicle does as its name implies. That’s because, in mechanized warfare, APCs haul troops into battle but don’t actually fight. The BMP-1 is armored-albeit thinly-and it carries personnel, but it’s not an armored personnel carrier.
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