Battlefront.com now offers a new patch for Combat Mission: Afghanistan, updating the military turn-based strategy game to version 1.02. The patch carries warnings that it is not compatible with the Russian retail edition of the game and to remove any mods before installing this patch, as well as a note on how to ensure your saved game progress is not lost. The patch is mirrored on The Patches Scrolls. New features from the version 1.02 change list follow.

• All BMP, BMD, and BTR series vehicles have infantry firing ports (previously only the BMP-1D did).
• Team weapons that are not deployed, and cannot be fired in that state, show a "Not Deployed" message over the weapon silhouette in the user interface.
• Sounds for armor penetrations and ricochets by large projectiles are louder.
• Weapons fired at pickup trucks (aka "technicals") aim better.
• Building collapse sounds are quieter at a distance.
• RPG-16 has increased muzzle velocity and max range (500m).
• Updated RPG-16 rocket model.
• 82mm 2B9 Vasilyek mortar's rate of fire is lowered.
• "Black" Soviet small arms changed to older wooden style.
• Fixed a "seeing through walls" bug that occurred in large buildings that had internal doors to smaller, attached buildings.
• Corrected an intermittent problem in networked quick battles that caused both sides to set up in the same area.
• Corrected an internet-play bug that could cause the guest player's units not to respond to orders.
• Corrected a problem that caused some artillery and air support sounds to play at the wrong time in turn-based mode.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the owners of non-deployed man-portable AT-7 ATGMs to stand up prematurely, yet disallow them from firing "from the shoulder".
• Muzzle flash from BMD-2 coaxial MG is placed correctly.
• Corrected silhouette of MiG-23 air support.
• Corrected a hatch problem on the Shilka AAA vehicle.
• Corrected stray polygons on soldier models
• Separated older 7.62mm and newer 5.45mm to be more uniform within a single unit
• Updated the TO&E for Soviet Airborne Recon Company
• Various TO&E improvements as suggested by players, in particular BMPs and BTRs being available for Airborne forces.