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BMP-1larger figure on 4 of 4
M3 scout carlarger figure on 0 of 4
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Measured figures
Length
Single source6.735 m (22 ft 1.2 in)[source]
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| Specification | BMP-1 | M3 scout car |
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| Type | Infantry fighting vehicle Armoured personnel carrier[source] | Armored car[source] |
| Place of origin | Soviet Union[source] | United States[source] |
| In service | 1966–present[source] | 1941-today[source] |
| Used by | See Service history[source] | See Operators |
18 ft 5 in (5.61 m)[source]
Bars compare reported quantities only. A larger figure does not make a system better; configurations and test conditions differ.
| Wars | See Service history[source] | World War II Second Sino-Japanese War Chinese Civil War Hukbalahap Rebellion Indonesian National Revolution Greek Civil War 1948 Arab–Israeli War Costa Rican Civil War 1958 Lebanon crisis First Indochina War Algerian War Laotian Civil War Cambodian Civil War Congo Crisis Dominican Civil War Portuguese Colonial War Salvadoran Civil War[source] |
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| Designer | Pavel Isakov (Design Bureau of the ChTZ )[source] | White Motor Company[source] |
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| Designed | 1961–1965[source] | 1939[source] |
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| Manufacturer | Kurganmashzavod (Soviet Union) ZTS Detva (Czechoslovakia) See also Production history section for details.[source] | White Motor 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] | 1939–1944[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] | 21,054 (M1: 76 + M2: 20 + M2A1/M3: 64 + M3A1: 20,918)[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] | Maximum .5 in (13 mm)[source] |
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| Main armament | 73 mm 2A28 Grom smoothbore gun (40 rounds) 9M14 Malyutka ATGM (4 rounds)[source] | .50 cal M2 Browning[source] |
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| Secondary armament | 7.62 mm PKT coaxial machine gun (2,000 rounds)[source] | 1–2 x .30 cal M1917 Browning or M1919 Browning machine guns[source] |
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| Power/weight | 22.7 hp/tonne (17.0 kW/tonne)[source] | — |
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| Suspension | torsion bar[source] | Leaf springs[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] | 30 US gal (110 L)[source] |
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| Drive | — | Wheeled 4x4[source] |
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| References | — | Bishop & Foss[source] |
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| Reported operators | — |
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