A batch of modernized BMP-2M entered service with the Taman motorized rifle division

A batch of modernized BMP-2M infantry fighting vehicles with the Berezhok combat module entered service with the Taman Motorized Rifle Division of the Guards tank Army of the Western Military District. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense.

According to the report, the division received eight BMP-2Ms, the equipment was supplied as part of the state defense order. It is noted that these are the first BMPs with the Berezhok module received by the division, although in 2018 a batch of BMP-2Ms was already delivered to Moscow Region motorized riflemen for trial operation. State tests of the BMP-2M with the Berezhok combat module ended at the end of 2019.

In 2020, the Ministry of Defense ordered the modernization of 124 BMP-2s to the level of BMP-2M, the equipment should be delivered to the troops by the end of 2022. Modernization works are carried out by the Tula enterprise Shcheglovsky Val. The modernization itself, in addition to the installation of the BM "Berezhok", provides for the installation of new turbocharged engines, strengthening the suspension and increasing armor.

The inhabited two-seat combat module B05Ya01 "Berezhok" is a classic BMP-2 turret, but with an updated armament system: instead of the main gunner's sight BPK-2-42, a combined sight with an independent line of sight stabilization system in two planes is installed. It combines sighting optical, thermal imaging and laser rangefinder channels, as well as a guided missile guidance channel.

The armament of the BMP consists of anti-tank guided missiles "Kornet", a 30-mm cannon for fighting lightly armored vehicles and enemy infantry. In the aft part of the turret, an AG-30M 30-mm automatic grenade launcher is installed with an independent vertical guidance drive and a food magazine for 300 grenades.

Comments

[Maxwrx]

The rollers are distinguished by a higher carrying capacity, hydraulic shock absorbers - with increased energy consumption, improved caterpillar belts - with a rubber-metal hinge.
Now the engine compartment houses a six-cylinder multi-fuel turbocharged diesel engine UTD-23 with a capacity of 360 hp. (was 300)
The maximum speed on the highway is 65 km / h, on a dirt road - 40-50 km / h and up to 7 km / h - afloat.
The BMP received additional armor and lattice anti-cumulative screens (no armor build-up is indicated)

[Maxwrx]

here is the look

[URAL72]

The front grille won't last long. We have already tried it in Donbass.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

The side screens are also not particularly useful, they cannot stop the RPG-7 grenade, at most they can help from a cumulative fragmentation grenade fired from an under-barrel grenade launcher.
Not visible in the photo, and so the front grille can be made on hinges or simple hinges so that it breaks off less often.

[URAL72]

Here the rubber on the sides is just useful - it can change the angle of meeting of the cumulative jet with the armor, it helps. But I have never seen a 40mm cumulative fragmentation grenade for an underbarrel in 7 years of war. Maybe the Hitler Youth doesn't have it either. Loops won't help. In any army there are talents capable of breaking a tank. I remember the dill crashed on a tank near Mariupol into a concrete anti-tank crosspiece. A sad sight.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

The Americans have a cumulative fragmentation grenade for a grenade launcher and an automatic grenade launcher; they can be sold to enemies or shared with the Hitler Youth for free at any time.

[Vlad2012]

And he shouldn't hold. The lattice screen should reduce the likelihood of normal operation of the grenade due to the deformation of the cumulative funnel upon impact. The probability is fifty to fifty, according to the Research Institute of Steel, which designed them twenty years ago.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

You were misled, the screens, being located at a distance, allow you to change the direction of the grenade's flight, reject. Therefore, the front grille makes some sense. No funnel deformation or early triggering will help. The grenade in flight has a very high energy, the penetrating force of the cumulative jet is so great that the screen located close to the side of the machine will not significantly change anything.

[Vlad2012]

Yah? Therefore, these screens are called "cutting" and not "deflecting"? If the cumulative funnel is destroyed, then it is quite likely that a pestle or even a cumulative jet will not be formed. And the impact will be only high-explosive.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

The grate is not strong enough to cut a grenade.

[Lynx2000]

Quote: MaxWRX

The rollers are distinguished by a higher carrying capacity, hydraulic shock absorbers - with increased energy consumption, improved caterpillar belts - with a rubber-metal hinge.
Now the engine compartment houses a six-cylinder multi-fuel turbocharged diesel engine UTD-23 with a capacity of 360 hp. (was 300)
The maximum speed on the highway is 65 km / h, on a dirt road - 40-50 km / h and up to 7 km / h - afloat.
The BMP received additional armor and lattice anti-cumulative screens (no armor build-up is indicated)

The BMP-2 suspension was identical to the BMP-1: independent, torsion bar with double-acting hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers on the first (road wheels), second and sixth suspension nodes. Rubber stops are installed on 2 and 4 units, and spring stops (roller travel stops) on 1 and 6 units.
Earlier, when the BMP-2D was adopted for Afghanistan, changes in the rollers were not made. Caterpillars of lantern gearing with rubber-metal hinges on BMP-2.
Back in 2018, it was planned to initially send the BMP-2M to the troops, they wrote that the changes would only affect the combat module, weapons and guidance systems.
The modernization of the BMP-2 began for export to Algeria and India in the middle of the XNUMXs.
Internal combustion engine UTD-20 (UTD-20S1) of Barnaultransmash aka 3D20 ship. It turns out UTD-20 (UTD-20S1) turbocharged - is it UTD-23? For BMP-3 ICE UTD-29 turbo.

[Smoked]

I wonder how they will force the servicemen from the landing party to ride inside and are not afraid of being blown up?

[carstorm 11]

They will order and go, and if necessary, they will run after the car)

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

The BMP-2 has several reasons for riding on armor, starting with the lack of air conditioning and strong swinging of the landing force in the stern and ending with the need for observation in order to detect a shot from a grenade launcher in time to stop or, on the contrary, a quick start. And the fear of undermining is far from the first place.

[Ross xnumx]

In 2020, the Ministry of Defense ordered the modernization of 124 BMP-2s to the level of BMP-2M, the equipment should be delivered to the troops by the end of 2022.

Anto, what about your mother,
Sorry to understand?

Since 2015, the Kurganets-25 is undergoing state tests:

Something didn’t suit, or don’t you feel sorry for the money for the modernization of the “Soviet past”? This is not a ruble or two ...
Wonderful are your deeds, ...

[Silver bullet]

A little off topic, as everyone forgot about the date

Happy cadet day!

[Astor 27]

To Kurganets, perhaps the most important complaint is in terms of mass (well, I would also raise a question about 2A42): the entire concept of motorized rifle units must be revised. It is unlikely that the current Ministry of Defense is capable of this. It's a pity: the car is very interesting.

[Ross xnumx]

The fact is that she thought so. Not for the landing, but for the infantry. There "Afghanit", there is a lot of new ... And the BMP-2 passed the stage and not the best.

[Astor 27]

That's exactly what I intended ...
I would say - not "passed", but "outdated already" (at one time the car was a miracle, how good it is). She is still "nothing", but, precisely, nothing. There is no special sense in making expensive modernizations (the truth of the biblical wisdom about the undesirability of pouring new wine into old wineskins has not yet been canceled).

[carstorm 11]

For the price there is the main complaint about which was mentioned right away. It turned out to be insanely expensive for mass use.

[Barberry25]

they answered themselves .. 5 years of testing the Kurgan, even if in the next year they finish and start deliveries it is no more than 120 cars a year .. And in the troops there are about 4 kopecks and twos, that is. it will take about 000 years to replace them ... Therefore, they changed their minds, began to take BMP-30 again and buy Berezhki, especially since the modernization is going on at a separate plant, which will allow the troops to receive an additional 3 vehicles upgraded at least a year ..

[carstorm 11]

Everything is simpler. BMPs need thousands of pieces. We are not Germans or brits for which we purchase 300-600 pieces. They can get rid of cats there for the price of OBT. This stupidly does not suit us. Nobody can afford such expenses. Therefore, they are made cheaper and tested. It seems like they will finish this year. And combat readiness is needed here and now. Therefore, modernization. Even if now they begin to buy a hundred a year for years and years of rearmament.

[Ryazan87]

And combat readiness is needed here and now. Therefore, modernization.

The only problem is the combat value of these machines. Of course, formally they allow you to fill the staff and report, however, the BMP-2 is now practically not suitable for a real conflict.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

Both earlier and now, the main task of the BMP was to deliver the landing force to the line, when its small arms become effective, and in the future to provide support with fire. The BMP provides protection from shrapnel and small arms, ATGMs are available against enemy equipment, in addition to an automatic cannon, an AG and a machine gun. The BMP performs its tasks even now. For more difficult tasks, there are tanks and self-propelled howitzer artillery.
Of course, I would like to have a more secure vehicle, like the T-15, but they upgrade what they have based on the available means.

[Ryazan87]

Both earlier and now, the main task of the BMP was to deliver the landing force to the line, when its small arms become effective, and in the future to provide support with fire.

You are absolutely right.
It is these two tasks that the BMP-2 is now unable to effectively perform. It was created for a certain type of armed conflict in a certain theater of operations.

The BMP performs its tasks now.

In a conflict of at least the type of Syria, the massive use of the BMP-2 will entail losses of an unacceptable level. To what extent the Russian army is ready to carry them is an open question.
The lot of the BMP-2 is now primary training vehicles, well, the third line may be. By the way, conversion into remote controlled modules is quite promising.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

For what reasons is she unable to do this? The upgraded vehicle has 4 ATGMs installed, and 4 in stock. Is this insufficient firepower?
Where and what is the data on unacceptable losses in Syria for the BMP-2? Naturally, if you use BPM in cities to support tanks, then there will be losses, there you cannot do without it. In Syria, not in the city, did the BMP-2 have worthy opponents?

[Ryazan87]

For what reasons is she unable to do this?

You yourself voiced this reason - insufficient protection of the landing. Plus controversial design decisions.

The upgraded vehicle has 4 ATGMs installed, and 4 in stock. Is this insufficient firepower?

The 20mm cannon is not enough, first of all. 4 ATGMs give, of course, some hope, but given the need to accompany the Kornet, the exercise will be very risky. And keeping in mind the main tasks of the BMP voiced by you, ATGMs are auxiliary weapons.

Where and what is the data on unacceptable losses in Syria specifically for the BMP-2?

The BMP-1 is no better, if anything. The problem is in the practically absent protection against mine threats (this also became clear in Afghanistan) and the significantly greater saturation of even irregular enemy detachments with modern ATGMs.

In Syria, not in the city, did the BMP-2 have worthy opponents?

Most of the battles were fought in urbanized areas, by the way. And this is an inevitable feature of modern conflicts (for example, Donbass). Although it was (and will be) no better in the Chechen gorges and the greenery.
As for the opponents .... In principle, handicraft "carts" in terms of combat effectiveness were not much inferior - remember the "Toyota" war (Libya vs Chad), if there is little Syria. The Libyans, however, had BMP-1s.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

After the 20-mm cannon and about the combat effectiveness of the carts, the level of discussion is clear. As is clear about mine resistance, because even tanks do not keep explosions on mines. I dare to assume that you have no idea about the effectiveness of the BMP-2 armament, did not sit in the turret, did not twist it, did not look through the sight and did not press the trigger.

[Ryazan87]

By the way, by the way, I really made a mistake with the caliber - mea culpa, I sprinkle ashes on my head. As for other things - if you (obviously) personally sat, twisted, looked and pressed, then as an argument for the adequacy of the BMP-2 to the conditions of modern conflicts, this, sorry, does not sound very convincing.
However, the discussion is assuming the character of picks, so I propose to end it.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

But against carts, the BMP-2 is very effective, the very ones that teenagers dream of on the Internet. This is in the picture, in the cinema, you can go against the BMP-2 in a carriage, in reality everything is different.

[nobody75]

But against carts, the BMP-2 is very effective, the very ones that teenagers dream of on the Internet. This is in the picture, in the cinema, you can go against the BMP-2 in a carriage, in reality everything is different.

Teenagers from the Internet have captured most of Syria (before the intervention of our videoconferencing)? These same teenagers plundered Libya ... And all in "tachankas" ... Could you tell us about the comparable successes of the BMP - 2?
Sincerely

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

You can continue to believe it, I cannot deny it.
Would you yourself have driven a pickup truck against the BMP-2?

[nobody75]

Excuse me, are you not from Ukraine? Only there they deny historical facts. And they do it so stubbornly that the Darkest One is forced to write articles! Does the Ghost of Jamaher, Muammar Gaddafi, come to you at night? About the effectiveness of BMP - 2 to tell ... Or do you believe in the "ideals of the Maidan" - in the uprising of the pan-headed? In this case, let's talk about the present. Would I go out in a carriage with an infantry fighting vehicle? You remember the old Soviet regulations - where about the actions of motorized riflemen when using nuclear weapons. And in the Pentagon they are actively used in proxy wars. Look at the map of Idlib province. Roughly speaking, this is a desert with oases, connected by a network of highways. Barmalei do not arrange knightly fights - they simply knock down checkpoints. Four carts are deployed along the front and advance towards it in zigzags, firing machine guns at the checkpoint. The BMP attached to the checkpoint is unable to target them, and the barmaley approach the checkpoint 300 m. After that, the defenders of the checkpoint scatter together with the crew of the "effective" BMP, since they rightly believe that one of the carts is mined. This is what explains the "swing" - the peace agreements with the barmaley. It's just that during the retreat, the Barmaley rolled back to the Turkish and Amerov bases, from where they strike without fear of the actions of the Aerospace Forces.
Sincerely

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

BMP unable to target approaching carts? Do you seriously think that you can approach the BMP-2 at the checkpoint on a carriage in zigzags?
Is this how the movie "Bravo Two Zero" influenced? That's really what TV does with people!
And what kind of fool will equip an outpost or a checkpoint with a single infantry fighting vehicle for you? Even if we assume a shortage of armored vehicles, there will probably still be firing positions equipped and there will be a couple of mortars for sure.

[nobody75]

I thought that you remember about "Mad Max", which is mentioned in the statutes ... And I haven't watched TV for 10 years - it's boring. After the "Toyota war" in Libya, I conducted simulations - one jihadmobile breaks through to the checkpoint with a probability of 86%, 2 - 70%. Regarding the positions of mortars ... How do you imagine such a position in the desert? Put sandbags with sand? Or build a gabion in the American style. By the way, about the Americans ... They have a 60 mm mine, in addition to a contact fuse, a Doppler radar - an altimeter, which makes it possible to detonate at a given height. And a regular Marine mortar throws a mine for 3 km. It is possible to equip the position under 60 mm mortars at least somehow ...
Sincerely

[nobody75]

However, you will not believe me again. Then let's take a look at how the Turks see the future of the carts. Please note that their module strongly resembles the one I wrote about in the comments about Typhoon Airborne Forces

This is "SARP Dual" - an upgraded stabilized, remotely controlled platform.
The main armament:
1 machine gun FN MAG58 caliber 7,62 or
2 machine gun M2HB caliber 12,7 or
3 40mm MK19 Mod3 automatic grenade launcher
Auxiliary armament:
1 machine gun FN MAG58 caliber 7,62
2 machine gun M240 caliber 7, 62
This platform, when installed on an armored vehicle, allows:
1 Fire in motion at stationary and moving targets (and the Typhoon, judging by the video, cannot)
2 to conduct day and night observation and aiming
3 conduct automatic target tracking
4 use a laser rangefinder built into the platform, which is especially useful when using remote blasting grenades such as HEDP-AB XM1176
In addition to the above, due to the open architecture, the platform allows the installation of an infrared laser illumination.
Thus, having an effective firing range of 1,5 kilometers and a practical armor penetration of 50 mm of steel armor, an armored car armed with an mk19 ganatomer on a stabilized platform is able to effectively engage lightly armored enemy vehicles in modern combined arms combat. The use of an automatic breechblock in the MK19 grenade launcher does not create such recoil that would load the platform and lead to its wear.
Sincerely

[nobody75]

Now let's talk about the tactics of using carts with this module against a checkpoint with one BMP -2, two mortars and a detachment of motorized riflemen.
Since the checkpoint is located in the desert, it will not be possible to dig in deeply and the entire field fortification will be scouted by armored vehicles from afar. We will arm 3 armored vehicles with 40mm grenade launchers and 7,62 machine guns 1 - 12,7 machine gun. The maximum range of the MK19 is 2200 m, so the carts will calmly put up a smoke screen a kilometer from the checkpoint and zigzag towards it, at a speed of 70 km / h. Unsighted firing from a 30 mm cannon in short bursts, as well as mortar fire into a white light, will not bring any results. Having escaped from the smoke screen, the armored cars will come under the fire of the BMP. Let the BMP lift one car with a grenade launcher, but the other two bombard it with fragmentation-cumulative grenades, and then transfer the fire to the mortar battery. A large-caliber machine gun will focus fire on the embrasures of the midfielder. If it is made of reinforced concrete, then machine gun fire will put the entire squad down due to ricochets, and if the firing points are reinforced with sandbags, then it will not let you raise your head.
Sincerely

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

At first I didn't even want to respond to this stream of thoughts. But still, I'll write something.
You probably have your ideas about block posting from the movie of the same name.
An outpost or checkpoint is not held by the forces of one squad, usually from a platoon or more. Somewhere two or three armored personnel carriers or infantry fighting vehicles and even a couple more tanks are sometimes attached.
Dangerous directions are mined.
If it is difficult to dig in, then they build walls a meter thick.
Neither the Soviet army nor the Russian had and are not 60 mm mortars, Smertnikov will meet either automatic fire of 82 mm Vasilkov or 120 mm mortar, the radius of continuous destruction of the mine, 25 meters.
In critical cases, they ask for help from howitzer artillery or call for aviation, but how do you know about this in the absence of military education, even at the level of a reserve officer.
This I have not yet undertaken to refute all nonsense.
I have not heard of a single case that an equipped outpost was taken by storm in the 80s in Afghanistan.
You will be able to find it, I will be grateful, although I myself was not even interested in such a thing.
I heard only about one case of loss of an outpost in Tajikistan by border guards, there just did not have enough equipment and heavy weapons.

[nobody75]

What does the Soviet Army have to do with it ??? Are you going to dig in a platoon of soldiers at every intersection in Syria? The Syrians do not have a "pair of tanks" or "two or three infantry fighting vehicles" for this. About "mining dangerous directions" is generally fun ... Two dangerous directions are two intersecting roads, but you yourself need them ... consciousness "? 10-15 minutes? On what coordinates will you call the howitzer artillery fire? To myself? Are there many heroes among the Syrians? Barmaley do not shoot at fleeing, and their own do not shoot. But where can I talk about such "lofty matters" as "storm call" .... A whole marshal will suit you?
Marshal Haftar decided to "correctly" replay the "Yom Kippur War" - to carry out a swift attack on Tripoli under the cover of the "umbrella" from the "Shells", deploying the platoon and company strongpoints that you loved so much. As a result, the pace was lost and, known from the history of the Second World War, a gap between the vanguard and the main forces was formed. The vanguard command decided to take Tripoli on a swoop, without complete encirclement. "The tanks will drive up and everyone will scatter" - so, in my opinion, Grachev said? Thus, the main forces of Haftar sat down on the "heroic outposts", and the mobile vanguard, which could be used to bypass Tripoli, got bogged down in urban battles.
The main disadvantage of platoon and company strongpoints is low situational awareness - they are not able to control the territory within a radius of 100 km.
The command of the PNS took advantage of the resulting operational pause and along uncut highways (where there were no defensive workers with meter-thick walls), on pickups you so disliked, transferred light infantry from Misurata to Tripoli and stabilized the situation. Haftar had to carry out a regrouping - to remove troops from the defenders and bring them into Tripoli, and send mobile units to capture the suburbs for the purpose of encirclement. It is clear that he did not have enough troops - he had to declare a general mobilization in a country engulfed in a civil war ...
Don't you think that controlling the territory with the help of "Norman castles" is an expensive, troublesome and thankless job?
Sincerely

[carstorm 11]

They provide the basis - combat readiness. Which is needed around the clock, 365 days a year. The point is not to report, but to load the units and go out to carry out the assigned tasks.

[Ryazan87]

load the units and go out to carry out the assigned tasks.

the only question is whether such a technique will allow it to perform tasks in a confrontation with an enemy equipped with modern weapons and what losses will be incurred in this case (if successful).

[carstorm 11]

Well, BMP is the main striking force of our army. The outcome of any collision depends on them)

[Barberry25]

And for a real conflict with whom? Of all the achievements of the Western school, now this is KAZ, but they learned how to fight it 15 years ago by firing a doublet of two Cornets, a 30 mm cannon can fight lightly armored vehicles and infantry, there are 4 Cornets for BMP and tanks, and even AGS has not been canceled to meet the infantry .. Everything is simple and tasteful.

[svp67]

This news makes you want to cry more ... EIGHT, not even TEN BMP-2, not "Kurganets-25" or at least BMP-3 ... Albeit modernized, but this is not the news that I would like to be proud of.

[newcomer]

At the test site near Moscow "... there are intensive tests of the latest technology on the Armata platform: T14 / 15/16; also Kurganets, Boomerang. Deliveries to the troops are expected from the age of 22." I read it just now, if I'm not mistaken on RG.RU.

[Barberry25]

this is an installation batch - it will go to training, where the crews will be taught, but the battalion kit will be brought up later.

[madrobot]

A simple question - would you personally prefer a detachment of motorized riflemen on a BMP-2M or a detachment on a "loaf"? Is a 30mm automatic cannon, AG-30M + protection against shrapnel and 7.62 caliber bullets that bad? Yes, this is not what I would like. But how can the army, the Airborne Forces, the Aerospace Forces, the Navy be fully provided without robbing the country literally to the skin? Our geography is like this. This is both a reason for pride, but also a daunting task. Something like this. Sorry to be a little messy.

[svp67]

Quote: madrobot

A simple question - would you personally prefer a detachment of motorized riflemen on a BMP-2M or a detachment on a "loaf"?

Personally, I would prefer a detachment of motorized riflemen in 2021 at Kurganets-25 or, at worst, at BMP-3M

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

What are you, there are a lot of people here who want to drive a pickup truck with a DShK against the BMP-2, that's what TV and the Internet do to people.

[Konnick]

In the aft part of the turret, an AG-30M 30-mm automatic grenade launcher is installed with an independent vertical guidance drive and a food magazine for 300 grenades.

That's right, but if it were still removable for use outside the BMP, then there would be no price.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

Well, you have wishes! It does not occur to you to ask for a removable PCT for installation on a bipod, but you suddenly wanted a grenade launcher. There, too, for sure, an electric trigger and special mounts.

[Barberry25]

it will not work .. there the trunk is larger than that of a conventional AGS, i.e. it is heavier, it is optionally better to equip the AGS with cumulative fragmentation grenades, which was recently presented ... this is a really dumb thing ... it won't eat it, it will bite and carry off the attachment even to the tank, and the BMP can break it ..

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

For a long time nothing has been heard about the 40-mm "Balkan", cumulative grenades were promised to him.

[Barberry25]

they are available for 30 mm AGS too. In principle, it would be nice if they put the Balkans, but there is something

[Revival]

Are we going to modernize T 34 or are we going to delay the delivery of equipment?

[Konnick]

Anyone in the know about the engine, it was boosted or another engine. The former had a low resource, only 500 hours, in contrast to the YaMZ-238, for example, which has a resource of 8000 mph, and, moreover, is not very suitable for overhaul.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

It is unlikely that anything has changed dramatically with reliability, but they promised to deliver more powerful already by 360 hp. instead of 300.
They prefer to equip them with Typhoon-type wheeled vehicles to save motor resources in low-intensity conflicts. The disadvantages of engines based on the V-2 diesel engine, from the T-34, most likely lie in its design and technologies from the 30s of the last century.

[Konnick]

Disadvantages of engines based on the V-2 diesel engine, from the T-34,

There was a different design, the camber of the cylinders was 70 °. At the plant where he worked, and we repaired the D-6 and D-12, civilian versions of the B-2, we brought the engine from the BMP-1 for overhaul in order to replace the boxer diesel engines on the low-floor Ikarus. But these engines turned out to be non-repairable, in contrast to the easily repairable type B-2.

[lucul]

Anyone in the know about the engine, it was boosted or another engine. The former had a low resource, only 500 hours, in contrast to the YaMZ-238, for example, which has a resource of 8000 mph, and, moreover, is not very suitable for overhaul.

Can you ask for another 800 hours? ))))
Why in BMP 8000 hours of service life?
The BMP will not survive so much during the war, it is an overrun of resources.
Let me remind you that during World War II there were also high standards, for example, 200 hours in aircraft engines seemed to be, but during the war, every year the service life was shamelessly cut - all the time increasing the engine power, they still shot down the plane before it used up its service life ..
Therefore, for BMP and 500 engine hours for the eyes.
Only if the YaMZ-238 turns out to be cheaper than the native engine - then yes, I have no questions.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

Afghanistan, Badakhshan, 860th omsp
11 June 1983 year
Lieutenant A. N. Orlov:
"From the ascent immediately to the airfield, they took out our (5 msr) and the sixth company, from the fourth they took some of the driver-mechanics. the way of starting, somehow they got twenty cars, and they had 5.30-6.00 liters of fuel in them. They put 100-150 people on each wheelbarrow, and go ahead ..... "
And this is in the summer, but how to start such engines in the winter? So judge for yourself whether the engine life is important or not.

[Konnick]

The armament of the BMP consists of anti-tank guided missiles "Kornet"

Cornets are very noticeable. Because of them, this BMP may be the primary target for enemy tanks.

[carstorm 11]

Well, the tank must identify and destroy all tank-hazardous targets. And so they just became more) That is already minimal but beneficial. Plus, the cornet can destroy the tank at a greater distance than the tank can detect it, which gives some advantages

[Konnick]

Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich

Well, you have wishes! It does not occur to you to ask for a removable PCT for installation on a bipod, but you suddenly wanted a grenade launcher. There, too, for sure, an electric trigger and special mounts.

Normal wishes, at one time the DT machine gun was just with a bipod and allowed its use outside the tank and this quality was very valuable. And here, if the vehicle breaks down, all weapons become scrap metal. And AG and Cornet.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

Did the diesel fuel have an electric trigger?

[Konnick]

Of course not, the machine guns were inside the tank.

[cat Rusich]

My opinion.
To refine old equipment to modern requirements, and sell to Africa, for example (for real money).
And to supply the Russian army with modern, freshly released equipment.