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Jul 26, 2020 18 tweets 13 min read

9 minutes long video on Hanwha's AS-21 Redback, which shows, among other things, installation of Elbit 2-man turret More screenshots (and also 4 of the same, but grabbed from 162mb YouTube video instead of Facebook's 83mb) in 1920x1080
Jun 9, 2020 14 tweets 11 min read
@thinkdefence >>derived from direct experience
Not this one though (Much more become available on BMPT origins by now, so explanations starting from Grozny-1995 or Afghan war 1979-89 seem to be not quite correct)

This one:
Object 787 MBM (multipurpose combat vehicle) aka Gadyuka (Viper) ImageImageImageImage @thinkdefence BMPT in Russian stands for both Combat Vehicle to Support Tanks, and IFV Heavy. More than that, from (tank-centred?) point of view IFVs and other vehicles are doing tank support in one way or another.
Thus back in 1980s when Soviets started to develop HIFV, they called it BMPT