Mechanized infantry
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Mechanized infantry are infantry units equipped with armored personnel carriers or infantry fighting vehicles for transport and combat.
U.S. Army mechanized infantry dismount from an M113 armored personnel carrier during training in 1985.
German A7V tanks in Roye, Somme during Operation Michael of World War I in 1918
U.S. M3 half-tracks and infantry on exercises, Fort Knox, June 1942
Swiss Armed Forces Panzer 61 and SPz 63/73 armored vehicles deploying mounted infantry in 1979
BMP-1
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The BMP-1 is a Soviet amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle that has been in service from 1966 to the present. BMP stands for Boyevaya Mashina Pyekhoty 1, meaning "infantry fighting vehicle, 1s
A Polish BMP-1 (BWP-1) during a training exercise in 2016
An East German BMP-1 with eight passengers
A rear view of a plinthed BMP-1 in Lebyazhye, Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast
Two Bulgarian Army soldiers man the driver's and gunner's stations, while a US Army soldier occupies the commander's position of a Bulgarian BMP-1 IFV.