Talk:BMP-23

Sourcing and validity of statistics
It is claimed that the BMP-23 was introduced in the "early 60s" while using the hull of the 2S1, a vehicle which only entered production in 1971.

The only source listed for the article has a dead link as well. Roffe001 (talk) 00:22, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

"Cast steel"?
that really doesn't look like "cast steel armor" to me, unless there is an outer sheet metal hull over the actual armor. Who casts steel into flat plates and then welds them into an angular hull of flat planes? If you are going to make the hull that way anyway, by far the easiest and cheapest way is to roll flat plates the normal way and weld them together. A cast hull is rounded and generally cast into one or a few large pieces. I feel like someone is mistaking the old usage of "cast steel" meaning "steel" as opposed to cast or wrought iron. I rarely hear that used in any modern context, since it only refers to the process in which the steel was made, not how it was formed into final shape, which is more often by stamping or forging or rolling. Idumea47b (talk) 19:27, 14 May 2024 (UTC)