The vehicle’s biggest flaw is its steel armor, which is just a quarter-inch thick in some places and can’t even stop heavy machine guns firing armor-piercing rounds.
www.forbes.com
Russia continues to reintroduce the finest in mid cold war technology to the battlefield. Welcome back from Retirement, BMP-1.
Yes, Russia on paper has a ton of these damn things. But like a lot of tanks now, they're 60 fucking years old and been sitting in storage with a questionable amount actually operable.
Unlike A T-62/T-64, they don't have a prayer of surviving a tank round or an ATGM(or even something like a
TOW), but nobody really expects an APC to survive a tank round regardless. Arguably, the main gun(a 25mm rapid fire cannon) on a Bradly could more then handle a BMP-1.
This isn't doing anything to convince me that Russia isn't scraping the barrel as far as armored vehicles go.