First seen in 2005 as a prototype of a Heavy Personnel Carrier built on a T-64 tank hull. The turret is replaced with a super structure built in to the modified hull. It uses a composite armour layout and Nozh explosive reactive armour. Its reported that the vehicle has a 3 man crew – driver, commander and gunner. The superstructure can accommodate up to 12 troops. The gunner operates the remotely controlled weapon station, armed with 30mm chain gun and coaxial 7.62mm machine gun. The BMPV-64 is powered by the same 5TDF multi-fuel diesel engine used by the T-64 MBT it's based of
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