Russian Federation (1996-1999) Infantry Fighting Vehicle – At Least 2 Prototypes Built The Soviet BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle is a historically very significant vehicle, responsible for popularizing the IFV concept on a massive scale worldwide. The vehicle itself remains to this day the most produced infantry fighting vehicle in history, with about 40,000 produced in […]
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BMP-1-30
Russian Federation (1997) Infantry Fighting Vehicle – 1 Prototype Built The Soviet BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle is a historically very significant vehicle, responsible for popularizing the IFV concept on a massive scale worldwide. The vehicle itself remains to this day the most produced infantry fighting vehicle in history, with about 40,000 produced in total in […]
Greece (1992-Present) Infantry Fighting Vehicle – 501 Purchased, Around 100 Currently In Service The BMP-1 is the most produced infantry fighting vehicle in history. Introduced by the USSR in the 1960s and widely exported to Soviet allies during the Cold War, the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and USSR gave Western-aligned countries access to surplus […]
Federal Republic of Germany (1991-1994) Infantry Fighting Vehicle – 764 BMP-1 Operated, Around 580 Upgraded Into BMP-1A1 During the Cold War, the two German states, the FDR/Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) in the west and the GDR/German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik/DDR) in the east, stood as two foot soldiers of NATO and the […]
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BMP-1AM
Russian Federation (2018-Present) Infantry Fighting Vehicle – 37 Ordered The Red Army’s Surplus The Russian Federation is the largest and most powerful out of all the successor states of the Soviet Union. Because of this status, it inherited most of the very large fleet of armored vehicles which the Soviet Army had during the Cold […]
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BMPT Terminator
Russian Federation (2002) Heavy Infantry Fighting Vehicle – 15-20 Built BMPT Terminator being showcased at an expo. Philosophy of a Russian heavy IFV The BMPT Terminator (the name “Terminator” is not an official designation, but used by the designers for publicity reasons) is a support combat vehicle which is mainly meant to be used in urban […]
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Goede’s New Tank
Hungary (2002) Tank – Patent Only Dr. Gabor Goede (Hungarian: Gábor Göde), a resident of Budapest, Hungary, filed a patent for a ‘New Type of Tank’ on 16th July 2002. In it, Goede was clear that in his view tanks would “continue to act [as] an important and indispensable part in modern warfare”, but that […]
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Pansarbandvagn 501
Kingdom of Sweden (1994-2008) Infantry Fighting Vehicle – 5 BMP-1s Purchased For Trials, 350 Purchased For Service And Modernized, 83 Purchased For Spare Parts (438 Total) The Soviet BMP-1 was and remains a ubiquitous infantry fighting vehicle. The most produced vehicle of its type to this day, with almost 40,000 assembled by the Soviet Union […]
Vehicles The Third Tsardom of Bulgaria The Third Bulgarian Tsardom was established on October 5th, 1908, with the country gaining independence from the Ottoman Empire. Ferdinand I was crowned as Tsar. He was a militarist and sought options for unifying all lands in the Balkans with an ethnic Bulgarian majority. These had previously been seized […]
People’s Republic of Bulgaria (1988-1990) Light Amphibious Tank – Small Scale Mock-up Only While thinking of tank-building countries, Bulgaria is unlikely to be amongst the first dozen to come into one’s head. Just like other Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO) countries (composed of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania), which usually […]