BMP-1 Infantry Fighting Vehicle, Sevastopol, Ukraine - Military Ground Equipment Displays on Waymarking.com

Sevastopol is a very special place. The city was off limits for the common citizen until 1993. Only those related with the Soviet (and later, Ukrainian) Navy would be allowed inside the perimeter.

Even today it's strongly marked by the presence of the Russian and Ukrainian Navy and there are plenty of memorials dedicated to all sorts of military persons and events.

This BMP-1 was placed near a memorial to those who fall in Afghanistan during the Soviet times in that country.

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The BMP-1 is a Soviet amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle. BMP stands for Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty 1, meaning "infantry fighting vehicle".[10] The BMP-1 was the world's first mass-produced infantry fighting vehicle (IFV).It was called the M-1967, BMP and BMP-76PB by NATO before its correct designation was known.

It was a revolutionary design combining the properties of an armored personnel carrier (APC) and a light tank. The Soviet military leadership saw any future wars as being conducted with nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. A vehicle like the BMP would allow infantry to operate from the relative safety of its armored, radiation-shielded interior in contaminated areas and to fight alongside it in uncontaminated areas. It would increase infantry squad mobility, provide fire support to them, and also be able to fight alongside main battle tanks.

The BMP-1 was first tested in combat in the 1973 Yom Kippur War where it was used by Egyptian and Syrian forces. Based on lessons learned from this conflict and early experiences in the Soviet War in Afghanistan, a version with improved fighting qualities, the BMP-2 was developed. It was accepted into service in August 1980.

In 1987, the BMP-3, a radically redesigned vehicle with a completely new weapon system, entered service in limited numbers with the Soviet Army.

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