The 2A28 Grom also known as KBP 2A28 Grom, is the main armament of the Soviet-designed BMP-1 and BMD-1 infantry fighting vehicles. It is a 73 mm low pressure smoothbore semi-automatic gun with a wedge breech block. [1]

GROM, which stands for Grupa Reagowania Operacyjno-Manewrowego (English: Operational Maneuvering Response Group) and literally means "thunderbolt", is one of five special forces units in the Special Troops Command. It was officially activated on July 13, 1990.

The 2A28 Grom is the main armament of the BMP-1 Infantry fighting vehicle. The 2A28 is a 73 mm low pressure smoothbore semi-automatic gun with wedge breechblock. The gun is relatively compact and weighs. It is fed from a forty round mechanized conveyor double-row magazine located around the turret ring of the BMP.

The 73 mm 2A28 is a smoothbore, low-pressure rifled gun with a short recoil that has been specially designed to suit the requirements of mountings on light armoured vehicles. It fires a special fin-stabilised HEAT round, which is also used by the infantry SPG-9 antitank weapon.

The JW GROM special forces of Poland are equivalent in operational scope to the American Navy SEALs and are also modeled after British SAS and U.S. Delta Force. Established on July 13th, 1990, JW GROM is the premiere elite counter-terrorism organization of the nation of Poland.

2024年10月13日 · The 2A28 Grom is the main armament of the BMP-1 and BMD-1 infantry fighting vehicles, it is essentially a 73mm low-pressure gun which fires a variety rounds ranging from HEAT to HE-Frag. Developed in the early 1960s it has been in Russian service ever since.

2022年6月1日 · Soviet BMP-1 is armed with a 73 mm smoothbore weapon model 2A28, low-pressure gun, and short recoil, weighing 115 kg. The secondary armament consists of a 7.62 mm paired machine gun mounted on the right side of the main armament.

The 2A28 Grom is the main armament of the BMP-1 and BMD-1 infantry fighting vehicles. It is a 73 mm low-pressure smoothbore semi-automatic gun with a wedge breech block. Development of the 2A28 Grom was directly linked to that of the SPG-9 recoilless gun; both fired projectiles similar to rocket-propelled grenades. Statistics []

The 2A28 73mm Grom cannon is one of the first weapons to be developed out of Russia after WW2 to be mounted on the BMD and BMP series Armoured fighting vehicals. First mounted on the BMP-1 and later the BMD-1 the 2A28 proved to …

2022年7月29日 · JW GROM, which stands for Grupa Reagowania Operacyjno-Manewrowego, or Operational Maneuvering Response Group (the Polish word Grom also means “thunderbolt”), was originally founded as JW2305 in July 1990, and was formed with initial training provided by the U.S. Army’s Delta Force and the British Army’s Special Air Service (SAS). GROM ...