BMPT

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BMPT (Russian: Боевая машина поддержки танков, Boyevaya Mashina Podderzhki Tankov, ‘Tank Support Fighting Vehicle’) is a new Russian armored vehicle designed to support tank and infantry operations, primarily in urban areas. This vehicle is sometimes nicknamed the "Terminator". It is being delivered to the Russian army since 2005.

It is bult on T-72 tank chassis. The turret is completely unmanned and the crew of 5 is seated inside the hull. The armaments include:

• two 30mm 2A42 automatic cannons
• two AG-17D 30mm grenade launchers
• Kornet ATGM system (4 launchers)
• one 7.62mm machine gun
• additional weapons can be installed

The vehicle is protected by passive and reactive armor.

[edit] See also

• IDF Achzarit

[edit] External links

• Info at warfare.ru (in English, has some pics)
• http://www.btvt.narod.ru/3/bmpt.htm (in Russian)
• http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/Modern/bmpt (many pics)
• http://www.vorkuta.ru/shado/tank/bmpt.htm (in Russian)

Soviet and post-Soviet armoured fighting vehicles after World War II
Tanks IS-3 · IS-4 · T-10 · T-54 · T-55 · PT-76 · T-62 · T-64 · T-72 · T-80 Russian: T-90 · Black Eagle · T-95 Ukrainian: T-72MP · T-80UD · T-84 Armoured personnel carriers Tracked BTR-50 · MT-LB · BMP-1 · BMD-1 · BMP-2 · BMP-3 · BTR-T · BMP-T Wheeled BTR-152 · BTR-40 · BRDM-1 · BRDM-2 · BTR-60 · BTR-70 · BTR-80 Russian: BTR-90 Ukrainian: BTR-4 · BTR-94 Self-propelled artillery 2S1 Gvozdika · 2S3 Akatsiya · 2S4 Tyulpan · 2S5 Giatsint-S · 2S7 Pion · 2S9 Nona · 2S19 Msta · 2S23 Nona-SVK · ASU-57 · ASU-85 Multiple rocket launchers BM-14 · BM-21 Grad · BM-24 · BM-25 · BM-27 Uragan . TOS-1 Russian: BM-30 Smerch Surface-to-surface missiles FROG-7 · 9K79 Tochka (SS-21 Scarab) · R-400 Oka (SS-23 Spider Russian: Iskander(SS-26 Stone) Air defense vehicles Gun ZSU-57-2 · ZSU-23-4 · Tunguska-M1 Missile 2K11 Krug (SA-4 Ganef) · 9K33 Osa (SA-8 Gecko) · 9K31 Strela-1 (SA-9 Gaskin) · 9K37 Buk (SA-11 Gadfly) · 9K35 Strela-10 (SA-13 Gopher) · 2K12 Kub (SA-6 Gainful) · 9K330 Tor (SA-15 Gauntlet) · S-300 (SA-10 Grumble) Russian: Pantsyr-S1 · 9K38 Buk-M1-2 (SA-17 Grizzly)
List of armoured fighting vehicles by country