Years ago the US Navy operated a captured BMP type chassis with a radar dish attached to it in the high desert near Fallon. Got up next to it one day and was struck by two things. 1) How big they really are. 2) How poor the workmanship was that went into them.
My unit got to examine Egyptian supplied Soviet armored vehicles in ‘80 at Vilseck, near Grafenworhr, Germany that were maintained by US mechanics.
I too was struck by how crappy they were, cramped, awkward and dangerous to the poor bastards that would have had to operate them.
The fuel storage in the rear doors of the BMP was a nice touch.
Trying to exit one in a hurry, slung with weapons and gear must have been
fun.
To be fair, the BMPT Terminator series is not built on the original BMP hulls. The one shown in this incident is a BMPT-72 - a T-72 tank hull with the turret and main gun replaced with the urban warfare turret. It has two 30mm autocannon, two automatic grenade launchers, four ATGM/anti-helicopter missiles and a GPMG in that turret.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMPT_Terminator
No doubt the workmanship isn’t great, but that’s a Russian thing - the gamble is that they can produce huge numbers of something that’s ‘good enough’. Which, to be fair, was a winning strategy back in WW2 when facing an enemy that demanded higher build quality of more complex designs... and the armaments on the BMPTs work just fine.