BMP-1 vs BTR-50: Specs Compared

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AArmoured vehicles

BMP-1

Infantry fighting vehicle Armoured personnel carrier

Credit

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

BArmoured vehicles

BTR-50

Amphibious tracked armoured personnel carrier

Credit

No machine-readable author provided. Bukvoed assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY 2.5 · Resized · CC BY 2.5 · Source ↗ · Modified

First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

BMP-1Length

6.735 m

Length source ↗

BTR-50Length

7.08 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

BMP-1larger figure on 2 of 5

Height+2%
Speed+48%

BTR-50larger figure on 3 of 5

Length+5%
Width+7%
Mass+10%

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

Measured figures

Head to head

23 of 50 rows sourced on both sides

6.74m

7.08m

Length+5%

All recorded figures & sources

6.735 m

Length

Single source

6.735 m (22 ft 1.2 in)^[source]

7.08 m

Length

Single source

Configuration

Details

BMP-1 and BTR-50 configuration
Specification	BMP-1	BTR-50
Type	Infantry fighting vehicle Armoured personnel carrier^[source]	Amphibious tracked armoured personnel carrier^[source]
Place of origin	Soviet Union^[source]	Soviet Union^[source]
In service	1966–present^[source]	1954–present^[source]
Used by	See Service history^[source]	See Operators^[source]

Wars	See Service history^[source]	Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation Six-Day War Vietnam War War of Attrition Yom Kippur War Indonesian Invasion of East Timor Angolan Civil War Lebanese Civil War Ogaden War Soviet–Afghan War Iran–Iraq War Somali Civil War Yugoslav Wars 2003–2004 Indonesian offensive in Aceh Syrian civil war Russo-Ukrainian war^[source]

Designer	Pavel Isakov (Design Bureau of the ChTZ )^[source]	—

Designed	1961–1965^[source]	1952^[source]

Manufacturer	Kurganmashzavod (Soviet Union) ZTS Detva (Czechoslovakia) See also Production history section for details.^[source]	Volgograd Tractor Plant^[source]

Produced	1966–(production in the Soviet Union ended in 1982 or 1983) 2026–(production to restart in Slovakia between 2026 and 2027)^[source]	1954–1970 (also produced in Czechoslovakia until 1972; maybe still produced by some foreign companies)^[source]

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

Variants	BMP-1, BMP-2 , MLI-84 , Boragh ; see also BMP-1 variants .^[source]	See Variants^[source]

Armor	6–33 mm (0.24–1.30 in) welded rolled steel^[source]	Homogeneous welded steel 13 mm front 10 mm sides 10 mm top 7 mm rear^[source]

Main armament	73 mm 2A28 Grom smoothbore gun (40 rounds) 9M14 Malyutka ATGM (4 rounds)^[source]	None BTR-50P & BTR-50PK: 7.62 mm SGMB medium machine gun (1,250 rounds) BTR-50PA: 14.5 mm KPV heavy machine gun^[source]

Secondary armament	7.62 mm PKT coaxial machine gun (2,000 rounds)^[source]	—

Power/weight	22.7 hp/tonne (17.0 kW/tonne)^[source]	16.6 hp/t^[source]

Suspension	torsion bar^[source]	torsion bar^[source]

Ground clearance	370 mm (15 in)^[source]	370 mm^[source]

Fuel capacity	462 L (102 imp gal; 122 US gal)^[source]	400 l^[source]

Reported operators	—	Reported operator · Afghanistan Reported operator · Albania Reported operator · Algeria Reported operator · Angola Reported operator · Republic of the Congo Reported operator · Cuba Reported operator · Democratic Republic of the Congo Reported operator · Egypt Reported operator · Guinea Reported operator · Indonesia Reported operator · Iran Reported operator · Kazakhstan Reported operator · Liberia Reported operator · Libya Reported operator · Nicaragua Reported operator · North Korea Reported operator · Russia Reported operator · Serbia Reported operator · Somalia Reported operator · Somaliland Reported operator · Sudan Reported operator · Syria Reported operator · Vietnam Reported operator · Yemen