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    BMD-1 is a Soviet airborne amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), which was introduced in 1969 and first seen by the West in 1970. BMD stands...
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    The BMD-2 is a Soviet airborne infantry fighting vehicle, introduced in 1985. It is a variant of BMD-1 with a new turret and changes to the hull. BMD stands...
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    The BMD-3 (Boyevaya Mashina Desanta , Russian "Боевая Машина Десанта", literally "Combat Vehicle of the Airborne") is a light infantry fighting vehicle...
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    post-Cold War Russia. Originally designated as the BMD-3M, the chassis of the BMD-4 is the same as that of the BMD-3 because it was developed on the same basis...
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  • Look up BMD in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. BMD may refer to: Bangladesh Meteorological Department BMD Group, an Australian civil engineering company...
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    BTR-D (redirect from BMD M1979)
    the Airborne"). It is based on the BMD-1 airborne IFV. NATO gave it the designation BMD M1979. In 1969, the BMD-1 airborne IFV entered service with the...
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    The Aegis ballistic missile defense system (Aegis BMD or ABMD), also known as Sea-Based Midcourse, is a Missile Defense Agency program under the United...
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    autocannon. During the intense fighting in Chechnya, no penetration of the BMP-1/BMD-1 turret front armor were noticed because the turret made for a small target...
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    stretched six-wheel transport variant of the BMD-1 airborne IFV. BTR-MD "Rakushka" – APC variant of the BMD-3. Planned successor for the BTR-D. BTR-90 –...
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    vehicles, mostly BMD-1 (since 1969), of which all but around 100 are in storage,[failed verification] and at least several hundred BMD-2 (since 1985)....
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    known as KBP 2A28 Grom, is the main armament of the Soviet-designed BMP-1 and BMD-1 infantry fighting vehicles. It is a 73 mm low pressure smoothbore semi-automatic...
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    foreign vehicles. Shcherbakov became particularly involved in trials of the BMD-1, an armoured vehicle intended to be able to be dropped by aircraft. It was...
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    effectiveness of large caliber, low-velocity guns like the 2A28 Grom on the BMP-1 and BMD-1 was also much reduced by the appearance of Chobham armor on Western tanks...
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    The plant was also the designer and manufacturer of the BMD-1, BMD-2, BMD-3 and latest BMD-4 airborne combat vehicles that are used by the Russian Air...
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    replace the open-topped ASU-57 in service. It was, in turn, replaced by the BMD-1 beginning in 1969. Development of a new assault gun for the armed forces...
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    The BMD-20 (GRAU designation 8U33) was a 200 mm multiple rocket launcher (MRL) created by the Soviet Union. Following the success of rocket artillery...
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    light infantry, though some armored fighting vehicles, like the Russian BMD-1 are designed to fit most heavy lift helicopters, which enable assaulting...
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    only airborne unit of Ukrainian Air Assault Forces which possesses BMD-1 and BMD-2 airborne infantry fighting vehicles, and is the only unit which can...
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    Osteopenia (redirect from Decreased BMD)
    healthy young person. Bone density between 1 and 2.5 standard deviations below the reference, or a T-score between −1.0 and −2.5, indicates osteopenia (a T-score...
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    BMP-2 BMP-3 BMD-1 BMD-2 BMD-3 BMO-1 BTR-series AFVs: BTR-D BTR-40 BTR-50 BTR-60 BTR-70 BTR-80 BTR-112 (Object 112) BTR-152 BTR-E152V BRDM-1 BRDM-2 Object...
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  • and wheeled IFVs and APCs such as the BMP-1, BMD-1, BTR-70, BTR-80 and the OT-64 SKOT. The turret weights 1.05 tonnes without the equipment. The equipment...
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    Capacity: 20,000 kg (44,000 lb) payload / 60 paratroopers / 2x BMD-1 armoured vehicles Length: 33.1 m (108 ft 7 in) Wingspan: 38 m (124 ft 8 in) Height: 10.53 m...
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    capability to land with their then-new BMD-1 armoured vehicles. The An-22 cargo hold can accommodate four BMD-1s compared to only one in the An-12. It...
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    Armour and Artillery 1997-98 ISBN 0-7106-1542-6[page needed] "The Russian BMD-1 Infantry Fighting Vehicle - TankNutDave.com". Archived from the original...
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    Russian Airborne Troops. The first of them was the BMD-1, which had the same firepower as the BMP-1 but could be carried in or even parachuted from the...
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  • Military Balance 2010. — Nuffield Press, 2010. — С. 373. — ISBN 978-1-85743-557-3.] [1] Archived 2016-06-14 at the Wayback Machine the-military-balance-2016...
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    and T-55, the APCs and IFVs are of Russian type MT-LB, BMP-2, BMP-1, and the BMD-1, and Russian type trucks are the GAZ-66 and the KAMAZ-6560. While the...
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    UAG-40. T-80 - principal main battle tank Challenger 2 main battle tank BMD-1 BMD-2 BMD-3 BTR-MDM BTR-D BTR-80 BTR-70 BTR-3 BTR-4 Stryker MT-LB GT-MU KrAZ...
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    System (JPADS) Loadmaster Paratrooper Winged tank BMD-1 air-drop techniques Technical Order (TO)13C7-1-11 Airdrop of Supplies and Equipment: Rigging Containers...
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    Passed on to successor states. BMD-1 – related family of Soviet airborne fighting vehicles Combat Vehicle 90 BMP-1 - predecessor vehicle BMP-3 - successor...
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