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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Vehicles Hello dear reader! This nation page is intended only as a placeholder before a proper, in-depth one can be produced Conceived as an international center of oil luxury, the Gulf state of the United Arab Emirates is not often seen as a military power. But since the early 2000s, in a time in which […]
Hello dear reader! This nation page is intended only as a placeholder before a proper, in-depth one can be produced Not too long after the conclusion of World War II, the French Protectorate of Cambodia found itself embroiled in an armed struggle between communist forces and the French forces vying to regain control during the […]
Tank Encyclopedia was launched on December 4th, 2011. It was the brainchild of David Bocquelet, who initiated the website as an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) testbench and a place for his beautifully detailed illustrations. David worked alone on the website for quite some time, writing and illustrating most of our earlier articles. He was soon […]
State of Kuwait (1990-Present) Main Battle Tank – 4 to 6 M-84 and 149 M-84AB Operated Slav in the Desert Despite ample interest from unaligned countries in the Yugoslavian M-84 main battle tank (MBT), the only foreign sale that went through was to Kuwait. This sale was accomplished largely because the deal was made years […]