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BMP-1larger figure on 4 of 4
Ferret armoured carlarger figure on 0 of 4
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Single source6.735 m (22 ft 1.2 in)[source]
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| Specification | BMP-1 | Ferret armoured car |
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| Type | Infantry fighting vehicle Armoured personnel carrier[source] | Armoured car[source] |
| Place of origin | Soviet Union[source] | United Kingdom[source] |
| In service | 1966–present[source] | 1952–1991 (UK)[source] |
| Used by | See Service history[source] | — |
| Wars | See Service history |
12 ft 2 in (3.7 m)[source]
Bars compare reported quantities only. A larger figure does not make a system better; configurations and test conditions differ.
Malayan Emergency Cyprus Emergency Algerian War Suez Crisis First Sudanese Civil War Aden Emergency 1964 Ethiopian–Somali War Rhodesian Bush War Portuguese Colonial War Nigerian Civil War Cambodian Civil War Black September The Troubles Dhofar Rebellion Lebanese Civil War South African Border War Uganda–Tanzania War Iran–Iraq War Ugandan Bush War Second Sudanese Civil War Sri Lankan civil war Internal conflict in Myanmar Invasion of Kuwait Somali Civil War Syrian civil war Russian invasion of Ukraine[source] |
| Designer | Pavel Isakov (Design Bureau of the ChTZ )[source] | Daimler Company[source] |
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| Designed | 1961–1965[source] | 1950[source] |
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| Manufacturer | Kurganmashzavod (Soviet Union) ZTS Detva (Czechoslovakia) See also Production history section for details.[source] | Daimler Company[source] |
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| Produced | 1966–(production in the Soviet Union ended in 1982 or 1983) 2026–(production to restart in Slovakia between 2026 and 2027)[source] | 1952 – 1971[source] |
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| 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] | 4,409[source] |
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| Variants | BMP-1, BMP-2 , MLI-84 , Boragh ; see also BMP-1 variants .[source] | — |
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| Armor | 6–33 mm (0.24–1.30 in) welded rolled steel[source] | — |
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| Main armament | 73 mm 2A28 Grom smoothbore gun (40 rounds) 9M14 Malyutka ATGM (4 rounds)[source] | 7.62×51mm NATO GPMG if fitted or .30 M1919 Browning machine gun[source] |
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| Secondary armament | 7.62 mm PKT coaxial machine gun (2,000 rounds)[source] | none[source] |
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| Power/weight | 22.7 hp/tonne (17.0 kW/tonne)[source] | 35.1 hp/tonne (26.2 kW/tonne)[source] |
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| Suspension | torsion bar[source] | 4×4 wheel[source] |
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| Ground clearance | 370 mm (15 in)[source] | — |
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| Fuel capacity | 462 L (102 imp gal; 122 US gal)[source] | — |
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| Reported operators | — |
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