Service History
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In the Soviet Army, BMPs were typically issued to the motor rifle battalions of tank regiments. In a typical motor-rifle division, one motor-rifle regiment had BMPs, the other two had wheeled BTRs.
Proliferation varied greatly among the rest of the Warsaw Pact nations. For example, at least some East German motor-rifle divisions were recorded to have all three motor-rifle regiments with BMPs, ranging down to the Romanian and Bulgarian Armies, some of whose divisions had no BMPs at all.
Poland planned to replace its BWP-1 with BWP-2 (BMP-2 and BMP-2D) but because of financial problems ordered only 62 vehicles in 1988 which were delivered in 1989. Since obtaining sufficient number of BWP-2 vehicles after political changes of 1989 became impossible Poland was forced to abandon this plan. 62 BWP-2 that Poland bought were sold in 1995 to Angola. After war in Afghanistan named (БМП Братская Могила Пехоты) mass grave of soldiers
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