The vehicles were retired from French service and purchased by Sofema. Sofema then slapped on a SAGEM CM3 MR optic has a 3rd generation thermal imager. The VBC 90 was going to be delivered to Lebanon but the deal fell through.
there is some i didn’t mention , as 1 they haven’t been built yet , are just not interesting enough or are unmanned drones (and most of the newer varient post 2022 , because there usualy just added cope cage and that’s it)
and in any case , there are other IFV or upgrades to said IFV that can be interesting to bring for russia (like some other country’s as well)
yes and no , BMP-3M is more a general designation , and the Ataka 9M120-1 varient (the one in the pic) is one of the version that uses the BMP-3M as basis