Bison and Coyote armoured vehicles vs BMP-1

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Bison and Coyote armoured vehicles — licensed reference photograph

AArmoured vehicles

Bison and Coyote armoured vehicles

Armoured personnel carrier

Credit

Jimderkaisser · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Resized · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source ↗ · Modified

BArmoured vehicles

BMP-1

Infantry fighting vehicle Armoured personnel carrier

Credit

One half 3544 · Public domain · Resized · Public domain · Source ↗ · Modified

First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

Bison and Coyote armoured vehiclesLength

6.5 m

Length source ↗

BMP-1Length

6.735 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

Bison and Coyote armoured vehicleslarger figure on 2 of 5

Height+26%
Speed+33%

BMP-1larger figure on 3 of 5

Length+4%
Width+13%
Mass+2%

Counts only measures both sources give with the same scope. A larger figure is not a better system.

Measured figures

Head to head

22 of 32 rows sourced on both sides

6.5m

6.74m

Length+4%

All recorded figures & sources

6.5 m

Length

Single source

6.45 m

Coyote · Length

Single source

Configuration

Details

Bison and Coyote armoured vehicles and BMP-1 configuration
Specification	Bison and Coyote armoured vehicles	BMP-1
Type	Armoured personnel carrier^[source]	Infantry fighting vehicle Armoured personnel carrier^[source]
Place of origin	Canada^[source]	Soviet Union^[source]
In service	1990–present^[source]	1966–present^[source]
Used by	See: 'Operators'^[source]	See Service history

Wars	War on terror War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001) United Nations Operation in Somalia II (1993-1995) Gulf War (1990-1991) Oka Crisis (1990)^[source]	See Service history^[source]

Designer	General Motors Diesel^[source]	Pavel Isakov (Design Bureau of the ChTZ )^[source]

Designed	1988^[source]	1961–1965^[source]

Manufacturer	Diesel Division General Motors Canada^[source]	Kurganmashzavod (Soviet Union) ZTS Detva (Czechoslovakia) See also Production history section for details.^[source]

Produced	1988 (prototype) 1989 (regular production)^[source]	1966–(production in the Soviet Union ended in 1982 or 1983) 2026–(production to restart in Slovakia between 2026 and 2027)^[source]

No. built	199^[source]	More than 20,000 of all variants (Soviet Union) More than 3,000 of all variants (PRC) 18,000 (Czechoslovakia) ≈800 (India)^[source]

Variants	Personnel Carrier, Field Ambulance, 81mm Mortar Carrier, Command Post, Maintenance and Recovery Vehicle, Electronic Warfare Vehicle, Mobile Repair Team Vehicle, Air Space Coordination Centre Vehicle, Reconnaissance Vehicle^[source]	BMP-1, BMP-2 , MLI-84 , Boragh ; see also BMP-1 variants .^[source]