BMP-1 Infantry Fighting Vehicle: The workhorse of the Soviet Motorised Infantry 

Robert Uhrig, the RESISTANCE FIGHTER in Hitler's Germany ???? My head exploded!!! Unbelieveable !!!! Was there any opposition/"resistance" in 3rd Reich???? (I'm typing from Poland, for explanation).

@@zbigniewgurak8261 Dear descendants of Zbigniew Gurak, I have just received news of the death of your relative by explosion of his head. I assure you that the reason for the explosion is purely a misunderstanding. To explain: Robert Uhrig was not "the" resistance fighter in Nazi Germany but "one" of many resistance fighters. I have taken the following text from the German Wikipedia page. Please understand it as a quote: "On 4 February 1942, Robert Uhrig and 200 other members of the group were arrested. Uhrig and about 40 of his companions were sent as prisoners to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Oranienburg. On 7 June 1944 Uhrig was sentenced to death by the People's Court. The sentence was carried out by beheading in the Brandenburg penitentiary on 21 August 1944. At least 78 members of Uhrig's group were either executed between 1942 and 1944, died in concentration camps or in the course of Gestapo interrogations involving the most severe torture." We were brought up in the GDR in such a way that we still have enormous respect for the resistance fighters against fascism - no matter which country they came from. We have also not forgotten here who bore the main burden in the fight against fascism and liberated us. Our absolute respect goes to the victims of that time. Finally, it only remains for me to convey to you my heartfelt condolences on the painful loss of Mr Zbigniew Gurak. If you write me your address, I will be happy to send you a bouquet and a card. Even though I was not brought up in the Church, I will include the recently deceased in my prayers tonight and ask that he will find a worthy place in the bosom of Pope John Paul II. I wish it for him with all my heart. And perhaps he will meet Robert Uhrig in heaven. I am sure there will be many good, enlightening conversations about resistance fighters in the 3rd Reich, no matter what nationality they once belonged to. Please try to get some sleep and rest. Good night!

@@zbigniewgurak8261 yes, most of them were members of the KPD.

@@zbigniewgurak8261 Wikipedia has a nice article about it - "German resistance to Nazism"

A "stable" vehicle that caused you to throw up.🤔

Word right outta my mouth , hell i cant remember what i had ten mins ago and he knows the frequency range of an radio in a Russian BMP amazing

That's where the obsession to armored vehicles gets you :D

The back left door holds 50 litres not 55. He got that wrong

he had me at pronouncing the original russian name in that accent

🤡🤡🤡Same is here ! ! !

Not much consideration went into crew survial

@@knerduno5942 You end up with less casualties by being aggressive and mobile. 50mm of armor on an IFV is great until you get hit by anything with the power to kill it such as any sort of autocannon.

I think because that a east German copy

@@yourcommondriver9681 Than why buttons are signed in Russian?

@@sfalhilsajd They speak Russian in East German duh /s

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@@dudududu1926 🤦‍♂️

Yeah I too have a bmp in my backyard, love it 😍

Oh wow you actually do have a bmp, that’s hella cool!

@@Xpomocoma202 Keeps the neighbors in line.

Strange that they never used it against the Ratel.

how much does a BMP cost nowadays? lol

It might pen it, but the odds of hitting are close to nil. It's horribly inaccurate.

Not really a problem since anything outside effective range of the cannon they have the ATGM, which actually outrange tank cannons. The grom cannon has a similar drop pattern to the PKM machine gun so they can use the coax to range then immediately fire the cannon once the coax hits the target.

@@yoloman3607 What's impressive with your post is that EVERY factual statement you made in it was completely wrong. That takes effort. Well done.

@@iatsd Considering I got this info from the Opfor training units who use BMPs in the US army, I believe my sources knew their shit considering they’ve picked apart every inch of those things for decades. Check any picture of the BMP-1 reticle. You will not find a second set of ranging marks on it because the BMP-1 Grom cannon has the same drop as its PKT counterpart. You would be hard pressed to find any source that says otherwise. Malyutka can fly out to around 2.5km. Effective range for a 60s or 70s era MBT like an M60 before the addition of the fire control computer and new sights on the 78’ A3 model could only be expected to hit a target less than 50% of the time at 2000m while stationary, much less at 2500m. After A3 it was around 70% at 2000m. Don’t call out people if you don’t know what you are talking about.

@@yoloman3607 oh, I don't know - 20+ years sitting on the German Plains with BAOR, I guess there was some time to study and learn about the weapon systems & armies opposing me. But hey, you go right ahead and believe anything and everything the Americans sitting in the US think up in their fevered little brains. I won't think any less of you. I couldn't.

but BMP gives better protection and firepower compared to M113. M113 is APC while BMP is really an IFV, it can stay back and if needed give fire support for the dismounted troops better than APC.

When invading western Europe, coming down the Fulda gap, I guess the driver could just keep heading 270 degrees and be fine 😉

I own a PG-15V round, and the case they came in.

Pretty much a spg9 that dont have backlash

PG stands for (IIRC) ‘protiv tanka’ which is simply Russian for ‘anti-tank’. The ‘R’ in RPG means hand held weapon. So the RPG 7 is the weapon which fires either the PG-7 (HEAT) or OG-7 ( HE/Frag) munition

@@bob_the_bomb4508 ProtivoTankovaya Granata - anti-tank grenade, but R is indeed for Ruchnoj - hand-held. RPG-7 can also use ThermoBaric Grenade, developed much earlier than the OG which itself was designed between chechen wars as more effective yet more compact grenade against infantry than HEAT.

Yes. The Russian designed armored vehicles in Ukraine are performing brilliantly. They explode so simply.

@@bebo4807 Ukrainians use the same equipment.The way the Russians use it is the problem,not the machine itself

I know the Ukrainians use the same crap. That’s why they want all the western stuff.

@@bebo4807 Try drinking less koolaid.

Is somebody sad that vlads rapists are losing again?

BMP-2 is quite a deep redesign - commander got moved to the new much wider turret for one and BMP-3 is a completely different design that actually forked off a light tank - the infantry compartment is barely more than an afterthought.

Неправда.

Sorry can i ask you a question? How much time does it take to fully realod the m1 gun after firing?

@@marcellomartinelli6453 The minimum amount of time is 7 seconds. That is in order for a tank loader to pass the TCGST (Tank Crew Gunnery Skills Test) he must load a round within 7 seconds. I had good loaders who would do consistently in 4 seconds.

Seeing what is standard practice in Ukraine right now, is to actually sorta jam all the equipment in there, and if transporting people put them in there and cram more around them. It's super inefficient. Everyone sorta tumbles out and equipment falls to the ground. And then you sorta sit there and unload it like a family station wagon. And divvy it up, and then go from there. Western IFV's tend towards having soldiers mostly equipped upon exiting. But then it's been a long time since we've fought in a truly near-peer conflict. Things might be different now with the level of electronic equipment being toted around.

It seems that more experienced troops will just be battle equipped on the top of the BMP and pop off to avoid dealing with that whole luggage situation.

@@SlavicCelery Its not about luggage, its just extremely hard to leave BMP when its full of soldiers, ur under fire and your BMP is also firing and all that smoke from shells is getting inside BMP, its like trying to leave train through 1 door when you all are crouched with rifle in hands but if ur on top of BMP even if it gets hit you just fall of it and if ur fine you just recover and take position. Like people used to ride shermans and t34

@@Xover112 Oh without the extra supplies, it is still incredibly difficult. They also were carrying lots of extra supplies, which was the excessive luggage. Just look at nearly any picture of a destroyed, but not burned out BMP. Lately it seems like the Russians have reverted to almost exclusively riding on the tops of BMPs again. I haven't seen much footage of BMP usage around the front with everyone inside the vehicle in a while.

Для 2050 года он староват

The "Grom" cannon is a modified SPG-9 easel anti-tank grenade launcher. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BzPLUz9mKLg.htmlsi=grO6vvxqW1nfKbYR

Not rpg-7. SPG-9( СПГ-9)

Playin with the little knob

I think it's the platform difference. SPG-9's end up on technicals all the time. You have that thing in the back of a hillux, and it is SWEET. The high arc of the round means you can be behind cover. Close indirect fire. You can be danger close to a ridge, but largely protected from incoming fire. So, in those situations it's perfect. Light, low recoil, large punch, mobile. This one is still in the BMP-1. A truck drew less attention. Nowadays, with satellites, drones, and their improved optics: it's probably a different story. But, it's got a super practical role in that environment. But a BMP still draws a lot of attention.

Also, it's a great artillery piece in a defensive role in a remote location. The ammo is light for effect. You don't need the same firing positioning for it to have a battle field impact. And it's light enough that you can potentially move it under cover in-between salvos of outgoing fire.

СПГ-9 и сейчас используется активно. Что касается БМП, то в войсках гораздо больше любят БМП-2 с автоматической пушкой 2А42

The Chinese produced unauthorized copies it as they did with much other Soviet kit. So did Romania and Iran, and it looks like Vietnam is about to do the same. Czechoslovakia and India produced authorized local variants. Many countries such as East Germany modified the ones they got. More broadly, the BMP-1 kicked off a revolution in armored vehicles and was arguably the first major IFV from which all others are derived. I think Western countries avoided its basic design philosophy for several reasons. One is that while its very low height reduces its visibility and enhances its protection, it also means that its main gun can endanger its own dismounted infantry instead of firing over their heads. Another is that its small size was better suited to Eastern Bloc troops who (usually being Slavs and Asians) were shorter on average genetically plus also (being in Communist countries) were less well-fed so didn't reach what genetic potential for height they did have anyway. Still further, while, say, the Sherman is well-known for being internally comfortable, Soviet armored vehicles are well-known for being cramped, awkward, and tiring (even for their smaller crews). The Western priority was not just about luxury or morale but about long term combat effectiveness, while the Eastern priority was about lower cost, logistics, and enabling more mass production. Finally, the Warsaw Pact's overall forces were designed for the offensive en masse. Thus emphasized quantity, speed, range, ease of operation by low-trained conscripts, ruggedness in field conditions (with the assumption of minimal maintenance but also wearing out or being destroyed soon), and most of all river crossing capability thus low weight so any bridge could hold them and amphibious or snorkeling capability so they wouldn't have to use bridges if no intact ones were nearby. By contrast NATO forces were geared for the defensive while outnumbered, thus emphasized heavier armor for crew protection, long-term functionality (if being carefully maintained by well-trained mechanics in well-equipped depots) plus rate and accuracy of fire at long distance via better optics, sensors, precision, well-trained troops etc.

@@IrishCarney excellent description

@@IrishCarney Your opinion is wrong, the average height and weight is equal to the average European, because there are not so many differences between Western and Eastern Slavs or Germans. According to the tactical application, armored vehicles move in front of the infantry, not behind it. The main task of the BMP and BMD is to throw into the enemy's rear and disrupt and destroy communications and equipment in connection with what they have a lower weight and profile

@@IrishCarney 1.5 roku byłem działonowym . Operatorem uzbrojenia. Wcześniej przez 6 miesiecy szkolenia jeździłem jako desant. Mam 180cm i wtedy około 75kg wagi. Nigdy nie było mi ciasno. Ani w wieży ani w przedziale desantu. Lubiłem jeździć przy tylnych drzwiach. Bo tam najmocniej buja i jest najlepsza zabawa. Zbiorniki paliwa w tylnych drzwiach to podwójny pancerz i paliwo w środku które też sporo spowalnia pocisk. To były lata 87-89 i już wtedy był to wóz przestarzały. Powszechne w użyciu były wtedy nowsze BMP- 2 , z armatą automatyczną 30mm i innymi ulepszeniami.

@@robertagowski9492 Interesting, thanks. I've seen multiple videos talking about how cramped the BMP and other Warsaw Pact AFVs were but your response is a counterpoint to take into account

The Russians had no setback in Ukraine. Initially, no one wanted to start a war. There was an order not to touch the civilians, and they were shooting in the back of the military. The military of Ukraine hid in the houses, which violated the conventions. And in the negotiation processes, Ukraine promised that it would withdraw troops from Dobnass, but constantly deceived the Russian government. This is a very complex conflict, and Europeans and Americans know nothing about it. More than 30 years of problems and conflicts are laid here.

@@valeritemirof5031 pure Soviet federation propaganda.

@@dougsscalemodels There is no Soviet federation Id iot. Ukrainians are also Russians, and 60% have relatives in Russia and Belarus. You are too stupid to understand anything. Your education in schools is too weak for you to think for yourself, and not by what some bloggers or false media tell you.

@@dougsscalemodels он прав

@@valeritemirof5031Yeah, there was no order to touch civilians, there was an order to shoot them all Kremlbot. Make a working flushing toilet first before doing international politics.

It has been told, that the slow rate of fire was a fault of the auto-loader failing to work. And manual loading by the gunner to be the replacement. Having seen combat footage of the Grom in a BMP being used as an artillery piece, while exclusively being manually loaded, would give some credence to the story.

It's practically the spg9, spg9 is fairly accurate, and can be used for indirect fire with hefrag. Don't know if the grom has indirect fire equipment. The accuracy probably good to hit a tank at 900m.