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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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.
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.
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.
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!
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… Read more »
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.
the videos are great but john’s story’s make them better.
I saw one of them tearing around at Salute (the Irish Militaria event in Swords). I sent a picture to the Facebook page.