Agava is a sight, not a complex, but something like
is a complex, and it recieving T or -1 doesnt mean it changed, it could be anything including just dfifferent mount for a T-90 for example, which it (TO1-P02T, complex that includes Agava 2 for early T-90 and T-90K tanks, same way how TO1-P02 is Agava 2 for T-80U variants, same way how 1A45T is T-90 complex that while 1A45 is T-80U/D complex) literally is.
state your sources
One mention of Agava-M1 I could find is a T-80 vietnamese wiki page that uses this as it’s source, but it somehow fails to connect Т01-П06 being Nocturne and not Agava-M1, the very same source it uses proves vietnamese wiki wrong.
Other mention is from russian website detailing how Agava-M1 is a system that includes Agava 2 and 9K119M complex, ADDITIONALLY it mentions it while talking about T-80UM, the very same tank to use Agava 2 and not Agava M1, it also states it’s index wrong, stating its Object 219AT, with Object 219AT being given to T-80U modernisation programm that never got past project state.
Then there’s russian “Alphapedia” that mentions Agava-M1 being a sight talking about T-80UM, additionally stating it’s year of introduction wrong while making a note Agava 2 (its real sight) is optional, then you have a bunch of English sites and notes just copy pasting that source in English.
Then you have Army Recognition stating Agava-M1 is a sighting complex, however doesnt state name of sight and then gets a lot of mistakes regarding T-80U’s variants in general.
Then there’s Army Guide stating Agava-M1 to be a sight of T-80UM.
Funny how in it’s own language Agava-M1 makes a single appearance on a tank that always realistically had Agava 2, additionally Agava-M1 being made after the Agava-2 has been tested, and adopted into army and production, you have russians here struggling to get one thermal they tested 5 years ago into production while these foreign (with one sketchy russian source) websites think there was room for Agava-M1 (thinking that it is it’s own sight and not a complex)
Then, the only somewhat okay source, russian army tech journal is the only normal mention of Agava-M1, stating it to be a complex of thermal sight and other things like 9K119M being a part of new T-80UM tank.
So out of all of these only one applicable source stating Agava-M1 being not even a sight but a complex containing thermal sight.
What I am discussing is Agava-M1 never existing as a sight, but a complex that uses Agava 2, which refering to Agava 2 as Agava M1 is missleading, as majority knows it by Agava 2 and its history as Agava 2 sight. I believe me stating multiple “sources” aka sketchy websites stating Agava-M1 to be either complex or a sight proves that it’s best to refer to Agava 2 as it’s sight name and not state complex it’s used in.