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Description

This is an injection-plastic military vehicle model kit.

From the manufacturer:

The BMP-3 is a Soviet amphibious infantry fighting vehicle, successor to the BMP-1 and BMP-2.  The abbreviation BMP stands for Boeyava Mashina Pehoty, literally "Infantry Combat Vehicle."

The design of the BMP-3 or Obyekt 688M can be traced back to the Obyekt 665 light tank prototype with 100mm gun 2A48-1 from 1975.  This vehicle did not enter series production, but the chassis, with a new engine, was used for the next-generation infantry combat vehicle Obyekt 668 from A. Blagonravov's design bureau.  The Ob.688 weapons configuration--an externally mounted 30mm gun and twin Konkurs ATGM launcher--was rejected; instead, the new 2K23 armament system was selected. The resulting BMP-3 was developed in the early 1980s and entered service with the Soviet Army officially in 1987.  It was shown for the first time in public during the 1990 May Day parade and was given the NATO code IFV M1990/1.

The BMP-3 is designed and produced by the Kurganmashzavod ("Kurgen Machine Building Plant"); some variants, however, are built by the Rubtsovsk Machine Building Plant (RMZ), for example, the BRM-3K.

In May 2015, the Russian Defense Ministry signed a three-year contract to receive "hundreds" of BMP-3 vehicles to maintain its armored vehicle force until its replacement, the Kurganets-25, completes research and development.  In the process of the BMP-3's serial production, the vehicle underwent 1,500 amendments.

The BMP-3 is one of the most heavily armed infantry combat vehicles in service, fitted with a low-velocity 2A70 100mm rifled gun, which can fire conventional shells or 9M117 ATGM's (AT-10 Stabber).  40 100mm rounds and 8 ATGMs are carried.  A 2A72 30mm dual-feed autocannon with 500 (300 HEI and 200 APT) rounds and a rate of fire of 350 to 400 RPM, and a 7.62mm PKT machine gun with 2,000 rounds, all mounted coaxially in the turret. The main gun elevates from -5 degrees to +60 degrees.  There are also two 7.62mm PKT bow machine guns, again with 2,000 rounds each.  The BMP-3 is capable of engaging targets out to 5,000-6,000 meters with its ATGM weapon system 9K116-3 "Basnya."  The minimum engagement distance, flight time and vulnerability of the launcher are typical of command-guided, rather than fire-and-forget, ATGM systems.  With conventional ammunition, such as the HE-Frag shell 3OF32, the 2A70 gun has a range of 4,000 meters.

• [Mold Color]: Gray
• [Includes]: Decals, photo-etched parts; full interior detail, crew and soldier figures