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As of 2024 Russia is estimated to operate around 200 BMD-4M and 90 BTR-MDM vehicles. [58] Prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia operated 351 BMD-4 and 122 BTR-MDM. [59] As of 16 December 2024, Russia is visually confirmed to have lost at least 149 BMD-4M and 45 BTR-MDM in the War in Ukraine. [60]
The Kurganets-25 (Russian: Курганец-25) is a tracked amphibious, 25-ton modular infantry fighting vehicle and armored personnel carrier being developed for the Russian Army. The Kurganets-25 is planned to evolve into various models, gradually replacing BMP , BMD , MT-LB and other types of tracked Soviet armored platforms.
Heavy infantry fighting vehicle meant to replace the BTR-T. [citation needed] Kurganets-25: Infantry fighting vehicle/armoured personnel carrier Russia: Planned to replace the BMP series. [428] [429] It has infantry fighting vehicle and armoured personnel carrier variants. [430] Anti-aircraft artillery 2S38 Derivatsiya-PVO
The 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe defines an infantry fighting vehicle as "an armoured combat vehicle which is designed and equipped primarily to transport a combat infantry squad, and which is armed with an integral or organic cannon of at least 20 millimeters calibre and sometimes an antitank missile launcher". [3]
It was shown for the first time in public during the 1990 Victory Day parade and was given the NATO code IFV M1990/1. [ citation needed ] The BMP-3 is designed and produced by the Kurganmashzavod ("Kurgan Machine Building Plant") some variants however are built by the Rubtsovsk Machine Building Plant (RMZ), for example the BRM-3K.
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In Dutch service the Boxer ambulance replaced the YPR-765 prgwt variant of the AIFV (Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle) casualty transport and it can accommodate seven casualties that are seated or three lying down on stretchers, or one of the following combinations: three seated and two lying down, or four seated and a single casualty lying ...
The infantry fighting vehicle concept was first conceived of in the 1960s during the Cold War, where a confrontation between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries was expected to be dominated by tanks, so infantry required transport to sustain the pace of advance while having armament to fight tanks, and armor to withstand machine gun and artillery fire; the Soviet Union created the BMP-1/BMP-2 and ...