PROBABLE NEW BMP VARIANT BALTIC MILITARY DISTRICT, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T01819A000100640001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 1, 1979
• Content Type: REPORT

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IaaOory analysis report
Probable New BMP Variant
Baltic Military District, USSR (-S)
Secret
WNINTEL
Secret
Z-20015/79
IAR-A002/79
AUGUST 1979
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PROBABLE NEW BMP VARIANT, BALTIC
MILITARY DISTRICT, USSR (S)
1. (S/WNINTEL) A probable new BMP armored fighting cluck vari.int .,iii ii:d It
Sovetsk Headquarters Guards Tank Division and Army Barracks .1I t Sti{t. 25X1
on imagery of The new variant lacks the turret of the standard Bs1P Al kI h,1, a i,tll 25X1
unidentified structure mounted to the left of the usual turret position. Four of thr vc~v ~ari;u~t,
were identified at the installation; they were observed in two separate tank regiment arc a,
2. (S/WNINTEL) Analysis of imager indicates that the rd 13\11' 25X1
has replaced the BTR-60 armored personnel carrier in at least two of the three tank ecta1'nt, 11
Sovetsk. On these dates, a standard BMP was identified in one of the tank rcgim( [it ,rre r, It
Sovetsk Headquarters AL-2 and in the tank regiment area at Sovetsk Armv Barrack, ( enttai \I -1
a motorized rifle company of ten probable standard B%lIL v5a, ,cru 25X1
with elements of it tank battalion at the river-crossing area in Sovetsk l-raining \rca I 25X1
The identifications of this motorized rifle company and of the ,tandard BMI' in the t%s 25X1
tank regiment areas suggest that the new BMP variant may he a command chicle.
(S) Comments and queries regarding this report are welcome. Thos mas he dileLtcd as
Warsaw Pact Forces Division, Imagery Exploitation Group, NPIC,
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