The BMP-1 could be considered to be a museum piece, however, it is fighting hard in Ukraine. Both Russia’s and Ukraine’s weapons stockpiles continue to dwindle as the nearly three-year-long war rages ...

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) is nearly a ...

The Ukrainian armed forces inherited more than 2,500 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles from the Soviet army as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The 13-ton, 11-person BMP-1 still is Ukraine’s ...

The Russian army recently lost no fewer than 18 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles in just a day or few days of hard fighting, mostly in southern Ukraine. The analysts at Oryx, an independent ...

A huge fireball filled the sky as Ukrainian paratroopers blasted a Russian tank and detonated its onboard ammo, Ukraine military officials said, sharing video of the attack. The Ukrainian military ...

There are strong indications that the upgraded BMP-1AM tracked IFV has entered service in Russia. While there has been no official announcement of this development, images on Russian social media, ...

A prototype of the upgraded Soviet-era BMP-1 IFV was displayed in public for the first time at HEMUS 2018 defence exhibition in Sofia, Bulgaria. Promoted under the new designation BMP-2+, it has been ...

The first prototype vehicle, designated the BMP-1 UM IFV, is being tested in Ukraine. The BMP-1 was a Soviet amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle. BMP stands for Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty 1, ...

Resembling a light tank with its sleek body and robust armament, the boyevaya mashina pekhoty (infantry combat vehicle) quickly imprinted itself on transport and firepower lexicon as the BMP. On ...