Unboxing: Team Yankee – BMP 1&2 Company

April 21, 2016 by dignity

Team Yankee are rolling back into town with the BMP 1 or BMP 2 Company from Battlefront Miniatures. I can imagine a lot of you are looking to expand upon your Cold War Gone Hot collection.

These are fast little tanks and something to always consider having in your army.

What do you think of the BMPs?

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mikeyboy403

10 years ago

You can make both the BMP 1 and 2 as long as you don’t glue the top part of the hull’s to the bottom part, so that you can swap them depending on what you want to use. And the reason for the pointy hull at the front is because these are amphibious.

stusidle

10 years ago

It’s very hard for me to consider any other troop carrying option other than a Hind swarm full of Afgantsy.
I may have to grab a few of these though, even if it’s just as a recon unit.

andershaugboelle

10 years ago

Ah, the BMP – my favorite IFV. The gun on the 1 model, btw, is the 73mm Grom and not 76mm. For the standard of the 80s it has a rather lousy range, but it was revolutionary when it was introduced in the 60s. Fun fact: it fires the same round as the SPG-9 recoilless rifle.

sodanjumala

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10 years ago

73mm Grom (low recoil smoothbore) gun on BMP-1 is actually heavily modified version of SPG-9 and used slightly different rounds then regular SPG-9, basically just reduced charge.

Bad thing is that gun was really, really inaccurate at targets beyond 600m and on windy conditions it could be worse!

oriskany

10 years ago

I have a BMP-2 in 1/72, used it in the Ukraine article series (actually from a Ukrainian model company, too!). I will definitely have to buy some of these for my 1/100 Soviet Team Yankee army, though. You really can’t have a realistic Soviet GSFG unit without at least some of these.

@johnlyons SHOOTS AND SCORES at 3:00 mentioning the AT-3 Sagger (Soviet name: 9M14 “Malyutka”), especially as pertains to the Israeli disasters at the outset of the Yom Kippur War in October, 1973. I’ve done some writing on this, and to this day the Israeli Tank Corps still calls October 8, 1973 “Black Monday.” They went in with a full divisions worth of tanks (250+), and by the end of the day they had 10 runners. Granted, some of these would be repaired and put back into action, but most of these losses were from the AT-3 (BMPs or specialized infantry teams carrying what they called the “Suitcase Missile”).

I think the BMP-2 upgrades to the AT-5 “Spandrel.”

Today the BMP-3 is still a front-line vehicle with Russia and a lot of former Soviet-Bloc countries and allies.

I’ve been in a BMP-1, brought back to one of our USMC bases after the First Gulf War. Didn’t get to ride around in it, though. Those troop bays are friggin’ small, I don’t know how they cram 3 crew and 7 infantry in there, especially if you’re supposed to be wielding AKM-family assault rifles in there.

There is some great footage of BMPs being used in the 2014-15 Ukraine War on YouTube, as well as what’s left when one of them takes a solid hit. Pretty awful stuff, burnt almost down to the frame, so I think John’s correct when he says the armor is aluminum. .50 caliber ammo was found to punch through the BMP-2 pretty easily during the Yom Kippur War (1973).

Great video! Now will someone find out when Battlefront’s coming out with those Leopard 2 tanks!?! 😀

erion

10 years ago

You don’t even need to magnetize the hull tops. The fit is quite snug. I’ve been lifting mine from the top hull and they’ve not come apart except when I want to swap them.