Author: Rainbow Crusk
Russian Precision System Holding Company recently delivered a number of upgraded BMP-1AM ""Forever" infantry chariot.
BMP-1AM is not a new infantry chariot, but a comprehensive renovation based on the inventory BMP-1 infantry chariot. The main components and assembly have passed throughThe most important feature of comprehensive maintenance or replacement is to cancel old-fashioned single turrets and 73mm low-bore pressure shells, and replaced a top turret similar to the BTR-82A wheeled armored carrier car, mainly mainlyThe weapon was replaced with a 30 mm 2A72 automatic gun.
It is reported that these renovated BMP-1AM infantry chariots will be delivered to the Ukraine front line. Previously, similar models also appeared on the Russian battlefield.The overall combat capability of the vehicle is worse than the old-fashioned BMP-1 and BTR-80 armored vehicles, but it is not as good as the BMP-2 infantry chariot. The only advantage is that the simple cost is low and easy to produce in large quantities.
Picture: Russian military factory transport BMP to the front line BMP-1AM "pagan" infantry chariot.
BMP-1 infantry chariot is the worlds first special tracking infantry chariot. It has a very high amount in the Russian army.In the warehouse.The cars combat performance is not necessarily strong, but it is cheap and sufficient.
In the early days of the Russian and Ukraine War, the Russian army showed the highest standard equipment. The infantry chariot was mainly a new BMP-3 infantry chariot.However, this expensive chariot play a better role than cheap BMP-1 infantry chariot. Because of the same weak armor, it has been destroyed a lot.
Subsequently, Russia invested in the second-level BMP-2 infantry chariot, and changed the "Bielie Ruke" turret, and the combat effectiveness was not as good as the BMP-3 infantry chariot.weak.However, the cost of BMP-2M infantry chariot equipped with this new turret is also higher than the basic BMP-2 infantry chariot.Therefore, in order to cope with the more and more stalls, Russia had to relegate again and pulled the old-style BMP-1 infantry chariot on the front line.
Picture: BMP-1 infantry chariot has been serving in the Russian army. This is the Chechen WarThe BMP-1 infantry chariot during the period.
BMP-1AM infantry chariot is an upgraded version of BMP-1. The main thing is that a new type of top turret can be installed. The occupants can be remotely controlled in the car body.The main weapon is a 2A72 machine gun, which is an improved type of the 2A42 machine gun. It fired 30 × 165 mm ammunition and the rate of fire was 350 ~ 400 rounds per minute.The gunfire power is strong, the weight is light, and the battlefield durability is relatively strong.
You can choose two 30mm artillery shells when performing armor -piercing tasks.
The older 3UBR6 armor -piercing core is hardening structural steel.The steel core weighs 375 grams, the projectile weighs 400 grams, the entire artillery shell weighs 856 grams, the cannon mouth speed is 970 meters/s, and the invasion of the 60 ° corner rolling average armor (RHA) is 700 meters at 29 mm.1000 meters is 18 mm and 14 mm at 1500 meters.These properties are mediocre, and in most cases, they can only penetrate light armored vehicles.
The new armor -piercing bomb is a 3UBR8 armor -piercing bomb.This is a tracer -cutting -piercing bomb (APDS).It has a lighter 222 grams of tungsten alloy armor -piercing core, the overall weight of the projectile is 304 grams, and the ammunition barrel weighs 765 grams.The shell was launched at a speed of 1120 meters per second. For the same armor invasion of 1000 meters, it is 35 mm and 1500 meters at 25 mm.
However, due to cost considerations, this new turret is not equipped with anti -tank missiles, so the anti -armored capacity is still insufficient.
Picture: The new type of top turret used in BMP-1AM infantry chariot.
my country has launched the first-generation domestic infantry chariot-86-type infantry chariot on the basis of imitation BMP-1 infantry chariot.In the process of improving the 86 -type infantry chariot, there was once a WZ505 infantry chariot, which is to use our own WZ501 round infantry chariot to set up a turret in the turret, which replaced the 73mm low -bornestonation of the globe turret.The shape is exactly like BMP-1AM, but the car was developed in the 1980s and 1990s. It only created a prototype and did not mass production.
The final improved model is the 86A infantry chariot of the universal 30mm machine gun.
Picture: China WZ505 infantry chariot, which resembles BMP-1AM, has appeared for 30 years.
Picture: BMP-1AM infantry chariot in the Russian and Ukraine War.
