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BBM? Abbreviation has stumped me.
I consider myself knowledgeable on the Russian military compared to the average news reader but this has stumped me. By context clues I am assuming APC IFV or such but I am not sure (Given BTR and BMPs). Could be soft skin vehicles with the odd rule that sometimes everything with armor and a gun is a tank.
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https://theprint.in/world/inflicted-...nistry/847024/ Quote:
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It is not in this. (Frist google result to a reference material) https://irp.fas.org/world/russia/sovmil-glossary.pdf Any thoughts? Internal Ukrainian nomenclature perhaps as they all seem to come from casualty estimates from the Ukrainian govt/military |
Google Translate gives me "бойова броньована машина" or "boyova bronʹovana mashyna" as the Ukrainian translation of "armored fighting vehicle." Looks like they adopted (Ukrainized?) the western terminology and no one back-translated the acronym when the reports hit the Anglophone news media.
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Thanks.
At least my instincts didn't fail me when my knowledge did. |
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