BMP-3 Infantry Fighting Vehicle
Channel: Main Battle Tank
Date: 14/04/2023

Soviet Union engineers and factories garnered much experience in the massive armor battles against German and Axis forces that populated World War 2 in across Eastern Europe. This knowledge was integrated and evolved across many post-war developments that were devised for another (possible) -large-scale war - this time against the West - during the Cold War decades that followed. It was Soviet engineers that were the first to introduced the concept of the "Infantry Fighting Vehicle" (IFV) to the world, combing the best aspects of a Light Tank (speed and firepower) with that of an Armored Personnel Carrier ("APC") (armor protection) which ultimately gave rise to the BMP-1 of 1966.