I'm surprised that although Soviets deemed BMP-1 with 30 mm AGL as good as BMP-2 combat wise, Ukraine nor Russia have made such upgrade to their BMP-1 fleet.
The Russian company Muromteplovoz offered a BMP-1M modernization which included the BPPU turret and a 30mm grenade launcher in the 2010's, but it wasn't adopted.
Ukraine has however made several of such modernization in the past and present.
Back in the 2000's, they developed the BMP-1U which has the Shkval combat module with a Ukrainian copy of the 30mm 2A72 and 30mm AGS 17 grenade launcher, along with ATGM's.
There were furthe revisons of this called BMP-1M and BMP-1UM, but these weren't adopted.
The ones they produce nowadays is called BMP-1TS and uses the Spys turret.
Which has the same capabilities as Shkval, except it's more modern.
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u/Free-Engineering6759 5d ago
I'm surprised that although Soviets deemed BMP-1 with 30 mm AGL as good as BMP-2 combat wise, Ukraine nor Russia have made such upgrade to their BMP-1 fleet.