November 6, 2017: In mid-2017 Russia ordered 540 upgraded BMP-2 and BMD-2 IFVs (infantry fighting vehicles) as part of its 2018-2025 military modernization program. Upgrading the current fleet of BMPs ...
The Russian MoD and KBP, a subsidiary of the industrial conglomerate Rostec, have signed a contract covering the upgrade and refurbishment of around 540 BMP-2 and BMD-2 tracked IFVs. The deal was ...
The latest batch of infantry fighting vehicles boasts advanced protective features, including anti-cumulative grids, armor screens, and upper hemisphere protection kits MOSCOW, September 12. /TASS/.
A strange armored vehicle, belching white smoke as it fires its autocannon, is a toxic reminder of one of the Ukrainian military’s most vexing problems. The Ukrainians never had enough infantry ...
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has modified an BTR-50 armoured personnel carrier by altering the shape of its hull and fitting the turret from a BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle (IFV).
An Armenian BMP-1 with an attached ZU-23-2. Twenty-two months into Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, both sides are running desperately low on purpose-made, fully-integrated infantry fighting vehicles.
The High-Precision Complexes Holding, part of Rostec State Corporation, has supplied the Russian Ministry of Defense with new batches of BMP-3 and BMD-2. This was announced on September 12 in the ...
Since the 1970s, the Russian military has possessed a diverse fleet of armored vehicles it can drop out of airplanes … with parachutes, of course. The BMD family of infantry fighting vehicles is armed ...
MOSCOW, July 31. /TASS/. Russia’s BMD-2M airborne assault vehicle upgraded with a new combat module is undergoing state trials, a source in the defense industry told TASS on Wednesday. "The KBP [the ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: While the ZBD-03 is far from useless, it is outclassed and outgunned by practically every BMD in Russian service. Its ancient ATGM is a major hindrance to its ...