> my feeling is that ifvs have a place on the battlefield, so bmpt should as well. it's a "better ifv" and a "worse tank" and can't carry troops. being "middle of the road" like that has to be some advantage, no? it serves no purpose. bmps have 100mm cannons and 30mm chain guns. russia has plenty of fire support. they need more infantry. the 7 dismounts in both bmp and bradley is pathetic. too small to be a proper squad. this is the actual ifv problem. ww2 halftracks and the m113 carried entire 10+ squads. 7 is no good.  much better than bmpt (if you must build something like this) would be a genuine assault gun like the original stug. something with no turret, heavy armor to the front and also on top against light drones, with a large caliber short barrel/low velocity cannon that you can attach to a platoon of bmp mounted infantry and drive it right up to the face of fortifications and blast them point blank.
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