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BMP-1larger figure on 3 of 4
Panhard AMLlarger figure on 1 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 | Panhard AML |
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| Type | Infantry fighting vehicle Armoured personnel carrier[source] | Armored car[source] |
| Place of origin | Soviet Union[source] | France[source] |
| In service | 1966–present[source] | — |
| Used by | See Service history[source] | See Operators[source] |
| Wars | See Service history |
5.11 m (16 ft 9 in)[source]
UTD-20 V6 diesel engine at 2,600 rpm
Single sourceUTD-20 V6 diesel engine 300 hp (220 kW) at 2,600 rpm[source]
Panhard 1.99 L (121 in 3 ) Model 4 HD flat 4 -cylinder air-cooled petrol at 4,700 rpm
Single sourcePanhard 1.99 L (121 in 3 ) Model 4 HD flat 4 -cylinder air-cooled petrol 90 hp (67 kW) at 4,700 rpm[source]
Bars compare reported quantities only. A larger figure does not make a system better; configurations and test conditions differ.
List of Conflicts Algerian War Portuguese Colonial War Six-Day War War of Attrition Angolan Civil War Cambodian Civil War Yom Kippur War Falklands War Lebanese Civil War Shaba II Ethiopian Civil War Eritrean War of Independence Salvadoran Civil War Western Sahara War Chadian–Libyan conflict Somali Civil War Iran–Iraq War Gulf War Djiboutian Civil War Rwandan Civil War First Congo War Second Congo War 2003 invasion of Iraq Second Sudanese Civil War Djiboutian–Eritrean border conflict 2004 French–Ivorian clashes First Ivorian Civil War Second Ivorian Civil War 2007 Lebanon conflict Internal conflict in Burma Operation Linda Nchi Yemeni Crisis (2011–present) Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon[source] |
| Designer | Pavel Isakov (Design Bureau of the ChTZ )[source] | — |
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| Designed | 1961–1965[source] | 1959[source] |
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| Manufacturer | Kurganmashzavod (Soviet Union) ZTS Detva (Czechoslovakia) See also Production history section for details.[source] | Panhard[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] | 1960–1987[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] | 4,812[source] |
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| Variants | BMP-1, BMP-2 , MLI-84 , Boragh ; see also BMP-1 variants .[source] | See 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] | 90 mm D921/ GIAT F1 (20 rounds) or 60mm Brandt mortar (53 rounds)[source] |
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| Secondary armament | 7.62 mm PKT coaxial machine gun (2,000 rounds)[source] | 2 7.62 mm MAS coaxial machine guns (2,400–3,800 rounds)[source] |
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| Power/weight | 22.7 hp/tonne (17.0 kW/tonne)[source] | 16.36 hp/tonne (11.9 kW/tonne)[source] |
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| Suspension | torsion bar[source] | Wheeled 4x4[source] |
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| Ground clearance | 370 mm (15 in)[source] | 0.33 m (1 ft 1 in)[source] |
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| Fuel capacity | 462 L (102 imp gal; 122 US gal)[source] | 156 L (41 US gal)[source] |
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| Reported operators | — |
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