WITBANK, South Africa — Russia's KBP Instrument Design Bureau says it has started upgrading 360 BMP-1 infantry fighting ... Military observers view the rapid modernization drive as part of ...

Spray-painted onto the rear of the hull, in blue, is “M113,” presumably a joke based on the U.S.-made armored personnel ...

This has led to the appearance of interesting vehicles on the front, one of which is the intriguing modernization of a 60-year-old infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) BMP-1. You can see one of the ...

The modernization will mainly be about improving firepower and fire control capabilities while other areas like armor or mobility remain unchanged. The 14.6 ton BMP-2 and 11.5 ton BMD-2 were designed ...

A new Ukrainian BMP-1 variant. Both sides in Russia’s 22-month wider war on Ukraine have lost a lot of infantry fighting vehicles. Both are scrambling to make good some of those losses by ...

When the heavier, and more heavily-armed, BMP-1 debuted in 1966 ... and instead has adopted a hybrid approach towards modernization,” Lester Grau and Charles Bartles explained in their ...

This involves the repair and modernization of armoured vehicles ... Currently, the Indian armed forces operate Soviet-made BMP-1 and BMP-2 infantry combat vehicles, but Indian military commanders ...

The company has commissioned new equipment and expanded its staff by almost 1.5 times ... upgraded BMP-2 with the Berezhok combat module and other equipment that has proven its high efficiency in ...

While the BMP-1 remains the IFV of choice for Russian forces, Poland’s interest in looking inward for a replacement makes sense. The concept driving the infantry fighting vehicle (IFV ...

On March 1, 2019, twenty BMP-3M infantry fighting ... But could Russia have gotten a better BMP-3 modernization? They likely could have. The original BMP-3’s armor is considered to be on the ...

The BMP-1 Armored Personnel Carrier was developed by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, and the BMP-1 Model 1970 is the primary production variant. It is an amphibious vehicle designed to ...