Talk:BMP-2

BMP-2 is one the most studied bone morphogenetic proteins, a group of proteins important to bone formation and growth -- 193.137.16.112 10:59, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

O RLY? --84.129.61.148 16:52, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Date
Quote from BMP-1: "The BMP-1 was first seen by the West in the November 7, 1967..."

Quote from this article: "The BMP-1 was first seen by the West in the August 7, 1968 parade..."

Which one is wrong? --84.129.61.148 16:52, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Variants
The list of Variants has been updated. dendirrek (talk) 10:38, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Number in Finland
This mentioned 110 is the number bought from former DDR stocks, but before that at least one batch was bought from USSR, how many it was and if there was more batches from USSR i dont know / cant recall but what is sure this number "110" is too low. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.231.217.247 (talk) 06:00, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, I will check it up. --MoRsE (talk) 07:36, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, I think you are mixing the BMP-1 and 2 up here. According to IISS, Finland has 110 BMP-2s in service. The BMP-1, on the other hand, was bought in two batches: the first batch, consisting of 85 BMP-1s were bought in 1981 and entered service in 1982, the second batch (110 vehicles) was bought from ex-East German stocks in the beginning of the 1990s. --MoRsE (talk) 21:26, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

List of Wars
The list of wars is incomplete. It has also been used in the Caucasus wars of the 1990s (such as the Nagorno-Karabakh War, First War in Abkhazia, Second War in Abkhazia) --MoRsE (talk) 21:36, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Protection issues?
The basic hull armour on the BMP-2 can be easily penetrated by any shaped-charge missile, from the 66 mm LAW on up. It seems to me that 80% of the world's ICVs are so vulnerable and the BMP-2 was never designed to withstand a close range hit from a LAW, never mind larger shaped charge warheads. It is therefore disingenuous to say its an issue since it was never part of the design specification. This is why the Soviet Army infantry dismount drill was to dismount outside of the LAW effective range for firing at stationary vehicles, about 200m.--60.229.48.79 (talk) 23:03, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Drivers prisms
The driver has four, not three periscopes. Three to the front and one straight to the left, to help to drive to firing position. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.223.130.103 (talk) 17:39, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Unsourced & Unlikely
"However the rear door tanks are not always filled as they are meant to increase road travel range of the vehicle, and are almost always empty when the BMP goes into combat, instead being filled with sand to add protection." This claim seems improbable as well as impractical, seeing as how filling gas tanks with sand would require serious maintenance before they would be useful for storing fuel again. Either way, it is unsourced and I suggest it be deleted. 69.40.46.44 (talk) 05:42, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Diesel tanks. The auxiliary tanks were a huge liability to the infantry because a rear hit that penetrated through spread often-burning diesel fuel directly into the passenger compartment. Afghan fighters learned this weakness and exploited it. For this reason they were left empty in combat at the very least. However, the rear doors were still popular targets, and were relatively thin to begin with, and so they were filled with sand. Flushing them out to re-fill them with diesel wouldn't be a concern until months or even years later and was very much "someone else's problem" to men far more interested in their survival than an armory technician's headaches. --162.234.102.57 (talk) 22:28, 2 February 2014 (UTC)


 * The entire Design section and its subsections are unreferenced (and tagged as such), so rather than delete all of it as unreferenced, hopefully someone will bring a source. ( Hohum  @ ) 13:16, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

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Iranian description wrong/incorrect source
In the Operators section, the last line for Iran reads "Being equipped with new unmanned towers", where the source links to an article (https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2022/02/12/2661638/irgc-s-armored-personnel-carriers-being-equipped-with-new-towers) saying the upgrades are to a BMP-2, although the Hull in the pictures are clearly a BMP-1 (BMP-1 has segmented pattern on sideskirts, whilst BMP-2 has parallel lines that run across the entire length). This Army Recognition article (https://www.armyrecognition.com/weapons_defence_industry_military_technology_uk/defense_industry_of_iran_develops_new_unmanned_weapon_station_armed_with_2a42_30mm_cannon.html) clearly shows the correct details, with more info and correctly identifies the IFV, so I suggest moving this section from BMP-2 to the BMP-1 variants page. Whilst the old source is an Iranian news agency, they clearly flubbed the vehicle recognition (not to mention why is it unmanned tower and not unmanned turret?). TVO2000 (talk) 14:12, 7 May 2023 (UTC)