BMP-1 vs Stryker: 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

Stryker

Armored personnel carrier – infantry fighting vehicle hybrid

Credit

U.S. Army · Public domain · Resized · Public domain · Source ↗ · Modified

First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

BMP-1Length

6.735 m

Length source ↗

StrykerLength

6.95 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

BMP-1larger figure on 1 of 3

Width+8%

Strykerlarger figure on 2 of 3

Length+3%
Height+28%

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

Measured figures

Head to head

19 of 29 rows sourced on both sides

6.74m

6.95m

Length+3%

All recorded figures & sources

6.735 m

Length

Single source

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

6.95 m

Length

Single source

Configuration

Details

BMP-1 and Stryker configuration
Specification	BMP-1	Stryker
Type	Infantry fighting vehicle Armoured personnel carrier^[source]	Armored personnel carrier – infantry fighting vehicle hybrid^[source]
Place of origin	Soviet Union^[source]	Canada / United States^[source]
In service	1966–present^[source]	2002–present^[source]
Used by	See Service history^[source]	United States (see Operators below for details)

Wars	See Service history^[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]	General Dynamics Land Systems -Canada^[source]

Produced	1966–(production in the Soviet Union ended in 1982 or 1983) 2026–(production to restart in Slovakia between 2026 and 2027)^[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]	~4,900 including 4,466 vehicles in US Army^[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]	With bolt-on ceramic armor : all-around 14.5×114mm protection^[source]

Main armament	73 mm 2A28 Grom smoothbore gun (40 rounds) 9M14 Malyutka ATGM (4 rounds)^[source]	0.50 in (12.7 mm) M2 machine gun or 40 mm Mk 19 grenade launcher mounted in a Protector remote weapon station or 30 mm Mk44 Bushmaster II gun (on Stryker Dragoons ) or 105 mm M68A2 gun (on M1128 mobile gun system )^[source]