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BMP-1 with Kliver TKB-799 Turret

Russian Federation (1996-1999) Infantry Fighting Vehicle – At Least 2 Prototypes Built The Soviet BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle is a historically very significant vehicle, responsible for popularizing the IFV concept on a massive scale worldwide. The vehicle itself remains to this day the most produced infantry fighting vehicle in history, with about 40,000 produced in […]

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BMP-1-30

Russian Federation (1997) Infantry Fighting Vehicle – 1 Prototype Built The Soviet BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle is a historically very significant vehicle, responsible for popularizing the IFV concept on a massive scale worldwide. The vehicle itself remains to this day the most produced infantry fighting vehicle in history, with about 40,000 produced in total in […]

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BMP-1A1 Ost in Greek Service

Greece (1992-Present) Infantry Fighting Vehicle – 501 Purchased, Around 100 Currently In Service The BMP-1 is the most produced infantry fighting vehicle in history. Introduced by the USSR in the 1960s and widely exported to Soviet allies during the Cold War, the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and USSR gave Western-aligned countries access to surplus […]

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BMP-1A1 Ost and BMP-1 in Reunified German Service

Federal Republic of Germany (1991-1994) Infantry Fighting Vehicle – 764 BMP-1 Operated, Around 580 Upgraded Into BMP-1A1 During the Cold War, the two German states, the FDR/Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) in the west and the GDR/German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik/DDR) in the east, stood as two foot soldiers of NATO and the […]

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BMP-1AM

Russian Federation (2018-Present) Infantry Fighting Vehicle – 37 Ordered The Red Army’s Surplus The Russian Federation is the largest and most powerful out of all the successor states of the Soviet Union. Because of this status, it inherited most of the very large fleet of armored vehicles which the Soviet Army had during the Cold […]

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Modern Russian Armor

BMPT Terminator

Russian Federation (2002) Heavy Infantry Fighting Vehicle – 15-20 Built BMPT Terminator being showcased at an expo. Philosophy of a Russian heavy IFV The BMPT Terminator (the name “Terminator” is not an official designation, but used by the designers for publicity reasons) is a support combat vehicle which is mainly meant to be used in urban […]

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Modern North Korean Armor

M-2010 8×8

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2010-Present) Amphibious Wheeled Infantry Fighting Vehicle – Unknown Number Built The M-2010 is a Wheeled Amphibious Infantry Fighting Vehicle produced since the late 2000s and presented in public for the first time in 2010. Therefore, it received the M-2010 designation from the US Department of Defense (DoD). It is in […]

Republic of Mali (Cold War)

Vehicles Mali was colonized by France during the scramble for Africa in the second half of the 19th century. Known as French Sudan under colonial rule, it was a part of French Occidental Africa. The process of Malian independence began in November 1958, when the “Sudanese Republic” became an autonomous republic within the French Community, […]

People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria (Cold War)

Vehicles Between 1954 and 1962, Algeria was devastated by a brutal civil war against French rule. Spearheaded by the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) [Eng. National Liberation Front], the independence process culminated in the 1962 Évian Accords and an independence referendum. President Ahmed Ben Bella had the job of overseeing this transition. The war of […]

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Modern Serbian M-84

M-84AB1

Serbia and Montenegro (2004) Main Battle Tank – 1 Converted Introduction – Tank for the 21st Century On June 1, 2004, marking the 55th anniversary of the establishment of the company Yugoimport SDPR, a new modernized main battle tank was unveiled to the public. While it bore the official name M-84AB1, it was informally referred […]

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Modern Hungarian Armor

Goede’s New Tank

Hungary (2002) Tank – Patent Only Dr. Gabor Goede (Hungarian: Gábor Göde), a resident of Budapest, Hungary, filed a patent for a ‘New Type of Tank’ on 16th July 2002. In it, Goede was clear that in his view tanks would “continue to act [as] an important and indispensable part in modern warfare”, but that […]

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Cold War Soviet Vehicles in Foreign Service Modern Swedish Armor

Pansarbandvagn 501

Kingdom of Sweden (1994-2008) Infantry Fighting Vehicle – 5 BMP-1s Purchased For Trials, 350 Purchased For Service And Modernized, 83 Purchased For Spare Parts (438 Total) The Soviet BMP-1 was and remains a ubiquitous infantry fighting vehicle. The most produced vehicle of its type to this day, with almost 40,000 assembled by the Soviet Union […]

People’s Republic of Bulgaria (1946-1990)

Vehicles The Third Tsardom of Bulgaria The Third Bulgarian Tsardom was established on October 5th, 1908, with the country gaining independence from the Ottoman Empire. Ferdinand I was crowned as Tsar. He was a militarist and sought options for unifying all lands in the Balkans with an ethnic Bulgarian majority. These had previously been seized […]

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Cold War Bulgarian Armor

Light Amphibious Tank Project – Lek Plavasht Tank ‘Oktopod’

People’s Republic of Bulgaria (1988-1990) Light Amphibious Tank – Small Scale Mock-up Only While thinking of tank-building countries, Bulgaria is unlikely to be amongst the first dozen to come into one’s head. Just like other Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO) countries (composed of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania), which usually […]

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Cold War Spanish Prototypes

Vehículo Blindado de Combate de Infantería VBCI-E General Yagüe

Spanish State (Early 1960s) Armored Personnel Carrier/Infantry Fighting Vehicle – Paper Project Spanish military authorities have always strived to create military designs for the local production of armored fighting vehicles. Often, financial instability or political turmoil have prevented this from happening. Both, to different degrees, would condemn the Vehículo Blindado de Combate de Infantería VBCI-E […]

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Type 62 in Malian Service

Republic of Mali (1981-Present, No Longer in Active Use) Light Tank – 18 Purchased The Republic of Mali has been a traditional customer of Soviet hardware ever since its independence in 1960. Over its history, in total, the country has purchased four different types of tanks. Of these, one stands out as somewhat of an […]

Kingdom of Sweden (Modern)

Vehicles Swedish Armored Vehicles at the End of the Cold War Thanks to its location on the periphery of the European continent, in combination with the leverage provided by its indiginous industry and resources, Sweden was able to avoid direct involvement in World War II. The conflict was, however, never far away, and Sweden constantly […]

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T-54B in Malian Service

Republic of Mali (Likely 1970s-Present) Main Battle Tank – 12 Operated The Republic of Mali is one of a myriad of African states which broke free from France at the turn of the 1950s to 1960s. Soon after independence, it became one of the most Soviet-aligned states in West Africa. This logically led to the […]

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M2009 Chunma-D

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Late 2000s-Present) Armored Personnel Carrier – Unknown Number Built North Korea has, since the 1960s, developed and expanded its military vehicles industry quite considerably. Starting out by locally assembling Soviet vehicles, the country progressively moved onto creating and manufacturing its own vehicles, more and more distinct from original Russian or […]

Republic of the Sudan

Vehicles Sudan is an under-developed desert country in northeast Africa that has had near-constant war since it gained independence from Great Britain on 1 January 1956. It has undergone three civil wars and numerous smaller conflicts. Tensions within the country largely stemmed from disagreements between the Muslim north and the Christian south, leading to the […]