BMP-1 vs BTR-80: 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-80

Amphibious armored personnel carrier Variants : Infantry fighting vehicle Self-propelled artillery

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Vitaly V. Kuzmin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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-80Length

7.7 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

BMP-1larger figure on 1 of 4

Width+1%

BTR-80larger figure on 3 of 4

Length+14%
Height+17%
Mass+3%

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

Measured figures

Head to head

21 of 63 rows sourced on both sides

6.74m

7.7m

Length+14%

All recorded figures & sources

6.735 m

Length

Single source

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

7.7 m

Length

Single source

Configuration

Details

BMP-1 and BTR-80 configuration
Specification	BMP-1	BTR-80
Type	Infantry fighting vehicle Armoured personnel carrier^[source]	Amphibious armored personnel carrier Variants : Infantry fighting vehicle Self-propelled artillery^[source]
Place of origin	Soviet Union^[source]	Soviet Union^[source]
In service	1966–present^[source]	1986–present^[source]
Used by	See Service history^[source]	See Operators^[source]

Wars	See Service history^[source]	Soviet–Afghan War First Nagorno-Karabakh War Georgian Civil War Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–2025) Transnistria War Tajikistan Civil War War in Afghanistan Iraq War First Chechen War War of Dagestan Second Chechen War Russo-Georgian War Insurgency in the North Caucasus Iraqi insurgency (2011–13) Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile Sri Lankan Civil War War in Donbas 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Russo-Ukrainian war United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon^[source]

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

Designed	1961–1965^[source]	—

Manufacturer	Kurganmashzavod (Soviet Union) ZTS Detva (Czechoslovakia) See also Production history section for details.^[source]	Arzamas Machine-Building Plant , Nizhniy Novgorod^[source]

Produced	1966–(production in the Soviet Union ended in 1982 or 1983) 2026–(production to restart in Slovakia between 2026 and 2027)^[source]	1984–present^[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]	5,000^[source]

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

Armor	6–33 mm (0.24–1.30 in) welded rolled steel^[source]	10 mm (hull) 7 mm (turret)^[source]

Main armament	73 mm 2A28 Grom smoothbore gun (40 rounds) 9M14 Malyutka ATGM (4 rounds)^[source]	14.5 mm KPVT machine gun or 30 mm 2A72^[source]

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

Power/weight	22.7 hp/tonne (17.0 kW/tonne)^[source]	19 hp/tonne^[source]

Suspension	torsion bar^[source]	wheeled 8×8^[source]

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

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

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