Ukraine: The 50-year-old infantry vehicle still on the battlefield

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The BMP1 first entered service in 1966, so why, more than 50 years later, is the infantry vehicle still being spotted on the battlefield for Russia and Ukraine?

When it first went into service within the Soviet Army the vehicle was revolutionary.

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