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The US Army used mock-ups of the BPM-2 in exercises in California

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The US army continues to use armored vehicles depicting the Russian BMP-2 and T-72 in the course of combat training. Such equipment is currently located at the site of the US Army National training Center Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert (California).

Here, ground forces units are tested, which regularly arrive on a rotational basis.

To designate the enemy forces, units of the 11th armored Cavalry Regiment are involved, equipped with equipment that looks different from the usual M1 Abrams, M2 Bradley and Stryker.

Previously, Soviet samples captured in the Middle East and running models on the chassis of the M551 Sheridan light airborne tank of the Vietnam War were used. After long-term operation, the resource was exhausted, they had to be written off.

Currently, the M113 veteran armored personnel carriers serve as a platform for creating "enemy" "infantry fighting vehicles" and "tanks". So, to give similarity to the BMP-2, rotating turrets with mock-ups of 30-mm automatic guns and dummy anti-tank missile launchers are mounted on them.

There are also variants that simulate the T-72 and T-80 with fake 125-mm guns and dynamic protection. If the "deuce" still somehow resembles the original, then the "tanks" with this is very bad, but the creation of other options is not yet planned.



Alexey Moiseev

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