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The BMPT-72's looking to be maybe the first in this family of vehicle to actually see combat...

Since the wars in Chechnya the Russian Federation has been looking for a vehicle custom built for urban combat/ convoy support. The existing line had poor elevation for hitting fighters in buildings, as did the Russians lose ...well to call it a metric tonne of tanks in those wars would be an understatement. As a result we saw the development of a few projects. They either failed due to the designers leaking them to the press (...not as sabotage, they just felt that their design was so awesome), or being too expensive/ difficult to maintain. The BMPT-72 does away with some of the features, and re-uses the older T-72 chassis in order to make the concept more palatable.

Regardless, the Russian military still hasn't put in a formal contract. However, the BMPT-72 has appeared during a few of the large scale military exercises undertake by the Russian Federation, and has been deployed in a combat capacity in Syria (though the vehicles used were the pilot ones just to advertise the new vehicle). Potentially we'll be seeing a similar vehicle on the Armata chassis, as that fits more within the current thrust of Russian arms development.

This particular one began as an Empress Miniatures 1/50th scale T-72. Originally the intention was to turn it into one of the latter modernisations of this chassis and give it to my Separatist forces. Once the ERA started to go on however I just really wasn't feeling it, so looked for something else to do with the chassis. So I stripped off all the ERA, rebuilt most of the armour to match the vehicle, and gave it the custom turret. I.e. it was a right load of work. Still, I doubt anyone else has this thing in the scale.

Its painted in a fictional European camouflage scheme. The show vehicles to my knowledge have only been displayed in an urban and desert pattern, so I just switched out the colours of those for a traditional Russian pattern (though swapped the black for yellow to give it a slightly more futuristic appeal).

Description
The BMPT-72's looking to be maybe the first in this family of vehicle to actually see combat...

Since the wars in Chechnya the Russian Federation has been looking for a vehicle custom built for urban combat/ convoy support. The existing line had poor elevation for hitting fighters in buildings, as did the Russians lose ...well to call it a metric tonne of tanks in those wars would be an understatement. As a result we saw the development of a few projects. They either failed due to the designers leaking them to the press (...not as sabotage, they just felt that their design was so awesome), or being too expensive/ difficult to maintain. The BMPT-72 does away with some of the features, and re-uses the older T-72 chassis in order to make the concept more palatable.

Regardless, the Russian military still hasn't put in a formal contract. However, the BMPT-72 has appeared during a few of the large scale military exercises undertake by the Russian Federation, and has been deployed in a combat capacity in Syria (though the vehicles used were the pilot ones just to advertise the new vehicle). Potentially we'll be seeing a similar vehicle on the Armata chassis, as that fits more within the current thrust of Russian arms development.

This particular one began as an Empress Miniatures 1/50th scale T-72. Originally the intention was to turn it into one of the latter modernisations of this chassis and give it to my Separatist forces. Once the ERA started to go on however I just really wasn't feeling it, so looked for something else to do with the chassis. So I stripped off all the ERA, rebuilt most of the armour to match the vehicle, and gave it the custom turret. I.e. it was a right load of work. Still, I doubt anyone else has this thing in the scale.

Its painted in a fictional European camouflage scheme. The show vehicles to my knowledge have only been displayed in an urban and desert pattern, so I just switched out the colours of those for a traditional Russian pattern (though swapped the black for yellow to give it a slightly more futuristic appeal).