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Still to heavy at 40 tons as the ground pressure must be awful! Yanks like big & heavy to compensate but this is over the top as at least 30 tons on such a frame is still heavy but useable. The 25ton Bradly has a PSI of 7.7 which is pretty meh but up about 30 tons 9.24 which is just passable. 40 tons for a ground pressure of roughly 12.34 is to much as so much ground will become unable to be traversed. A human foot is 16 PSI which any usable vehicle for all terrain you want to be 11PSi minimum but less is desirable. FV103 Spartan was made to meet 5PSI for ground pressure for a reason. Even the Marder C class used in limited numbers for specific applications mainly in urban settings has 11.8 PSI ground pressure at 37.4 tons which normally is 28.5 or 33.5 ton load out as the A1/A2 or A3 set up for a reason. The Germans overweighed their AFV's due to budget constraints but this newest Bradley has gone over that in ground pressure which will come back to bit them.
I was mechanized infantry in Iraq and even though I was a dismount we still had to spend a lot of time in the motor pool working on the Brads. We hated this thing in the rear but once deployed the unmistakable ground shake and the thunderous sound of a Bradley group approaching to pick us up after a patrol was very reassuring. They performed real well once deployed.
@@markhowells13 to keep them updated with the latest armor and optics yeah they ate up our units budget. We had old desert camo with forest camo interceptor vests and carried M-16A4 with the rails to attach optics etc to them. Funnily enough we at least had the airborne 249 SAWs with the collapsible stocks to facilitate getting in and out of the Bradleys easier. You’d think they’d want everyone equipped with M-4s for the same reason but they just didn’t have the money to spare. Fuel, maintenance, Bradleys ammo, etc are all crazy expensive. This was 2005ish btw.
@@markhowells13 no the unit was well funded but our speciality was being mechanized infantry. We just used dated but effective weapons. They fired the same round as newer smaller rifles. Military units have budgets and concessions have to be made so a given unit can fulfill its specialized role on the battlefield. My unit happened to be all in on the Bradley and while we complained about it in the rear, it performed like a top in country.
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Wow Cappy, 17:06 "Just like my dad upgraded and got a new family." So much pain and so much to unpack there. It is ok buddy, it is not your fault, sending you a virtual hug.
2500 Bradleys in active use 2800 Bradleys in storage 5000 M1 Abrams in active use 3600 M1 Abrams in storage Stalin: "Quantity has a quality all its own," Americans: "Why not have both?"
@@klardfarkus3891 Sure, if you ignore the fact that the vehicles that the USA is operating on its own (i.e, not loaning or selling to other countries) are heads and shoulders above the vehicles of any other nation. You know there's a serious issue when a country like Russia uses propaganda and lies to hype up their vehicles while the US is releasing entire technical manuals to the public detailing only *some* of the vehicle's capability.
@@FederalistDegtyarev American tanks are built to transfer money from gullible taxpayers to the military industrial complex. They are not designed for combat. Too big and too heavy for the terrain. Why do you think ukraine has pulled them from the frontline when ukraine needs firepower? A Russian tank is half the size and weight of an Abrams and has the same firepower.
@@klardfarkus3891 You left the part out that Russian tanks are "half the size and weight" cause they have sacrificed armor, defensive systems, and sensors. That is why they blow up spectacularly and have turrets that participate in space programs. Russian tanks are perfect for Russia and other high-population, low-education states. Cause they are cheap, moddable, and farmers can a least get it from A to B and yes they have decent firepower. But they don't care about crew survival. Which fit the MO of these countries, throwing away lives for territory. Also, whatever corrupt funny business the West does for the East does the same as it's BUILT-IN feature. Calling the kettle black.
When you talked about an AC unit, I immediately imagined one of those ancient units that sit in a window, half sticking out of a large hole cut out in the back of the vehicle :D
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5:50 that’s me on the left (in the TC hatch) and my driver on the right (gunner hatch)!! During this time we were set up at an Observation Post for training, just observing artillery rounds.
Hello from Poland! I heard only positive opinions about Bradley from Ukrainian soldiers. It's true that equipment suffers heavy losses, but it literally saves soldiers' lives every day. And this is invaluable in the conditions of enemy artillery superiority and huge numbers of drones. It must be admitted that the Ukrainians, due to lack of other options, sometimes used them quite recklessly, to raid russian infantry dismounting from vehicles. Soviet IFVs often burn crew alive inside. Bradleys are surprisingly durable. They can even cope with 30 mm bullets from BTRs, and at really close distances. As for us, we are finishing the procedures with our IFV - Borsuk (Badger). There should be an executive agreement soon, and the industry has already started producing the first dozen or so pre-series units. I'm really happy about it, because I wouldn't even fit into our 60-year-old BMP-1 xd. Greetings to allies and all people of good will!
"Badger don't give a fuck" is a well known compliment. The Badger is a rugged tough animal, fitting that a fine Poland BMP be named after it. Good day sir
Welp, first comment got ghosted by YT’s overreaching censorship again, so I’ll just say: good. That’s how they’re supposed to work. Good luck with your own armor developments. Love to see an ally getting serious.
Should be noted that the Bradley's being sent to Ukraine are *much* older and outdated models. If the older models are doing this well against Russian aggression, imagine what the up-to-date models are capable of.
Maybe, if theyre all turrets in the sense that they rotate, they may be not too bad if you can take them off the ring, definitely not light but one can hope, at least the ones on the front, didn’t see the back stuff, jesus, hope electrical isn’t too bad
As a former armor crewman, all I see are nooks and crannies strategically designed to catch and retain mud. God help these guys at the wash rack. So far, no new technology has made the 3" hose and spade replaceable. Getting the gunk off of these things is good old fashioned work.
@@sidgarrett7247 Beats getting blown up and no worse than fixing aircraft except for the dirt. I did fighters for a living (and all sorts of terrestrial stuff off duty) and if my or my bros survival depends on being a competent technician then it's time to become one. Any crewmember could dual-role as an electronics tech, mechanic or both and the more ya do the better you get. One of my favorite tools is the Time Domain Reflectometer (cheap today, when I worked Phantoms they were as big as a large suitcase) which makes continuity checks a breeze. AFV have become like wingless aircraft (Lear-Siegler made many electronics for both even back in the proverbial day) and fixing those systems is a solved problem given wise maintenance management. I always thought the armed forces should have some pure technician career tracks so the best technicians are not forced out of maintenance by the need to make rank to make more money. Real techs are happy at our work (and hate dealing with "adult child care").
While losing vehicles is expensive, if it successfully protected the soldiers inside I'd argue it was ultimately successful in its primary role. We can spit out new Bradley's by the week, we can't replace the lives and experience.
@hundredfireify Always funny to see people trying to act smart with the most nonsensical responses ever. Sure, maybe 200 years later we'll have fully cloned soldiers with combat experience ingrained into their brains. Still completely irrelevant to the conversation.
@@apollo1694Your arrogance is your vice, we have bipedal AI powered robots from multiple companies in operation in the private sector. Not to mention the mules with weapons platforms in operation in Ukraine right now from US contractors. Military is usually 40+ years ahead in classified tech than the public knows. It’s literally just a budgetary issue to get fleets of drones and 24/7 remote operated robots on the frontline, and running vehicles. It’s just cheaper to use people right now.
Na man... Just watched a Bradley on fire. All burning Inside1. 1 Ukrainian stumbling out burning... Walking like hes lost... Still burning... Falling on his knees and then on his stomache.
@@simonschneider5913 that place has done fuk all lmao, the battlefield stats are not in russias favor against western armor. Try again brody, russia would get mopped up against any near peer western nation, if you cant see that you are ignorant, blissfully or not
5 metres of accuracy after an 8-kilometre flight is astounding for an artillery round. The networking capability is something the fly boys have, and finally the GIs are upgrading, well done.
don't forget there's small FPV drones that can range for them, meaning they can shoot over defilade and hit targets with line of sight too, we've seen that tactic in Ukraine
Against a lot of targets 2m margin is overkill though right? Most things you dont need a direct hit against and the things you do tend to measure more than 2m across.
All those extra turrets really just mean they'll have a hard time negotiating the limited vertical clearance of most drive thrus, otherwise I see no issue!
I'm far cry from a mechanic, and know little about electronics. However, all those systems, which are cool and have a worthwhile purpose, seem like a lot of work, and would require tech specialists, to maintain them even in the best conditions; let alone overseas. But, the military does have a lot of experience taking new flakey tech, and eventually making it efficient and manageable; after some time of course.
Realistically that's sort of a real concern, just for weight not size. Make something too big and all of a sudden you can't drive it anywhere. Like the Abrams, it's too heavy for certain bridges and other maneuvers, add on too much stuff and you might limit yourself.
Wait til you add a anti drone cope cage. Just need a cope cage to make the package complete. The Merkava and Namer both have cope cages and APS, so there’s no shame to put one on the Bradley.
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@jayklink851 won't matter tho with new tech and a new engine I bet that thing has sensors to each rotating point of the tracks and can tell what kind of terrain it's in for the mode it needs to be in like modern cars. With that weight added to it I wouldn't be surprised if it has systems to fight against sinking in mud and all types of shit
A few corrections about some facts around the base M2A4. It's the same hull as the M2A3, reused -- all A4s are rebuild from earlier generations. It gains its additional ground clearance from the improved suspension components which have also been fielded to the M2A3 and M2A2 ODS-SA fleets. It fits the same number of RAT tiles as all other Bradleys. The A4 has a negligible weight increase over the A3, both of which tip the scales at around 40 short tons fully combat loaded.
You forgot to add that it's keeping the POS M242, until it gets replaced by another POS that's twice the size. Also cooling vest, so dudes in the back get to wear extra shit when they dismount. Apparently in the year 2024 putting a fucking a/c into one of these things is still impossible 🤣
Wonder if you can see the welded blanks over the old firing ports. My 1st Brad in Germany was a M2A2 (non ODS) after a field problem you can see the tan paint showing by the running gear. You could also see along the sides the welded blanks over the old firing ports. We also had the swim curtain that had to be checked EVERY Monday! Good times.
My dad was the gunner in the Bradley back in the 80s. His TC told the driver to pop a wheelie in it in front of some higher ranking personnel. No one believes me but I saw them do it when I was a kid. That reversed it and went neck for a while and then popped it forward. The front end went up. It happened at some kind of family event in South Texas. My dad upgraded to another family later too 😆 but yeah...I saw them do that.
When I was in the Navy, the time I was happiest working on the aircraft was when we were doing upgrades. The normal troubleshooting pop & swap routine was dull, boring, and frustrating as hell when the guy who doesn't know his... I mean... when technicians made errors such as routing the pins into the wrong slots on a wire bundle. But when we got to install upgrades, it was a whole different experience, and was one of the most satisfying aspects of my job. So thanks for the upgrades, sorry about the extra hours, but man is it satisfying when the jobs done!
Same here in the USAF. I can tell the real techs. My favorite example was on a Moody E model Phantom where the Depot team used a hot knife on the potting compound on a bulkhead feedthrough containing the IFF coax. We inspected the whole line visually with no joy then I broke out the TDR and found the potted gap inside their (nicely potted) f---up. They had to know they cut the poor little RG-58 coax but didn't write up squat. I do not miss potted connections one bit. Give me a Davis kit any day.
@@drzerg2 you already need 8 to 10 per attack with 50% plus reportly failing to even reach the target and most of the rest missing or being innefective. Now you need 20 to 30 drones. Even more if the vehicles are operating with more than one.
@@imjashingyou3461 that's with the current state of drone pilots. Drone piloting has to be the safest job in war, so expect more deadly strikes as people only get better at doing just that without dying like field units
Actually, if you've ever played Horizon: Zero Dawn..you already know that turret, and you know it's the precursor to the "Kopesh" or deathbringer as it's more commonly called in the more primitive world of the survivors of Zero Dawn. That turret is pure deathbringer. Just ditch the Bradly half, give it legs instead, and it'll be destroying the entire world, very shortly..Just as soon as you give it the combat drone AI, and the capability to breakdown & convert organic matter into useable bio-fuels..that's the end of the world, folks. So 'nice' (could be I'm being slightly sarcastic & somewhat facetious here) to see that they're already half way there, with the actual development of our entire planet's Deathbringers.. And with AI also nearing the point that it could go rogue & take over stuff, and refuse to comply & 'behave' as we demand of it..a bit like 'Vast Silver' did in Horizons lore.. Nice to see the US military is so fully on track with the destruction of our entire planet, and all biological life on it, as is prophesy in Horizon.. Cause that turret, is pretty much EXACTLY THAT! 🤔
Not even half the weight of true Heavy Tanks. 50% lighter than the lightest western MBT ( essentially a Medium Tank with Heavy Main Gun). Infinitely more capable than sny WW2/ Cold War fielded Heavy Tank Bradley has absolutely ratio'd every piece of ComBloc Armor it's faced over the last 40 years
relative to the Abrams it's more of a medium tank, both in weight and capability, it won't frontally kill MBTs, but neither could the Sherman in WW2, but the Bradley doesn't have to carry troops over the engine like the Sherman did so it's somewhat better, if a lil more expensive per unit (alright a lotta bit more expensive)
@@jmjones7897 do you normally call the KV a medium tank? It was 45 tons. The Tiger 1 was 50 tons. MBTs are obviously different, but they too go all the way down to the 40 ton range (Leo 1, S tank)
I think since they have been looking to replace the Bradley this is a good chance to see what works and where they can improve. The Bradley is a beast already. Its replacement will be ridiculous in the best possible way.
While a intercept rate of 70% percent sounds bad. In war if putting a sandbag on the front of the tank increases your survivability by even a little. It's worth it.
I don't know how much the calculus has changed with modern munitions and vehicles but if I recall correctly they did a study back in WWII on the benefits of "addon armor" and it was found that the additional "armor" only provided marginal improvements at best while severely increasing the amount of wear on tracks, suspension, transmission and engine due to the increased weight. Didn't stop the soldiers strapping sandbags, spare track, and whatever else they had handy to their tanks. Sometimes the psychological effect matters more than the reality. On the other hand an APS system that has a 70% success rate would dramatically increase the survivability of vehicles. Better a defense that works most of the time than none at all.
The 30% is probably dependent on circumstances like range, weather, lighting, the weapon, the Bradley's speed, and terrain. It probably fails in roughly 30% of tested conditions, not just randomly failing 30% of the time. And the U.S. often undersells its military capabilities. It might well have a 99% success rate or something but they'll only admit to 70% because as long as the Russians think it has a 30% failure rate, they're more likely to risk taking a shot (or a second shot) and getting taken out by return fire.
Huh. When it comes to total damage output, a bradley might actually do more than an Abrams when it comes to laying waste to an area. Not necessarily against hardened targets, but a few bradleys running loose in a rear area could wreak a shitload of havoc.
During Desert Storm the Bradly killed more enemy tanks than the Abrams to put it into perspective. Many of them have a couple of TOW anti tank missiles on the side of the turret.
@happyjohn354 the linebacker has 2 launchers. Those were the ones that wrecked so many tanks. The one dumb design feature - you have to get out to reload. Not a great idea when you crest a hill to see 50 tanks awiveling towards you..
Interesting info, thanks Chris. BTW, 10.7 avg age, not 10.2 AND that was as of 2018, see the top label at 0:48 sec Budget so far is $750M, not $75 (15:17)
In 1986 I "bought" 4 bradleys at an invoice price of 1.5 mil each. You sign alot of things daily, but this was one of the better ones. We were a new company to round out our battalion in West Germany 86 and got our Bradleys
Oh the engineers definitely didn't "miss" adding a standby mode, it almost definitely wasn't in the original requirements and they can't just add things willy nilly without change orders. It's like you forgot how the army works lmao
@@davidgoodnow269 I think you have a bit of a misunderstanding here. The system in question can detect stuff from a km away I am sure but to get 1km range out of one of those projectiles from that launcher would be anything short of a miracle. But, it does depend if they fitted IRST tracking. As far as I know the only thing with APS sensors is it will detect projectiles. Drones are way too slow to be picked up by APS so doubtful (if it searched for everything then the tracker would be overwhelmed I assume). IRST tracking would allow a bushmaster to fire at flying targets easily. Even BMPs have this capacity. The issue purely lies in target allocation not targeting. There's not really anything that can track a drone sized target outside of human eye to my knowledge. Some passive sensors maybe (especially thermal imaging scanners like present on some AA systems that have their own IRST on them). Either way we won't know until we find out fully.
There is also the problem of the actual threat verification. Drone operators can fly their drones in from basically level from the sides or back and take out the vehicle. But if the threat detection system is programmed to respond to slow moving threats at ground level, now friendly vehicles and even troops will be targeted. Sorting such a system out will prove to be very difficult.
I love Cappy humor amidst talking about serious the implications that the new hardware presents. I love hearing about Carl and Barbra's marriage trouble in the middle discussing whether or the APS will save my life or not. Also, words cannot express just how valuable the information in Ukraine is. It's the closest thing to a conventional war that we've had to deal with for a long time. If troops ever have the hit the ground(I hope not), they'll be using equipment tailor made for their mission and have in-depth knowledge for the enemy's modus operandi while on top of a weaker enemy worn down by years of fighting. Again I hope it it never comes to that.
It’s insane how many people cannot comprehend the benefits of helping the Cossacks figure it out amongst themselves, on their own land, without our soldiers.
As a former 11M , assigned to 1/7th Inf.3rd Div in 1984 are unit had transition from the M113 to the M3 Bradley, brand new. Are unit received them with the factory O.D. green paint in West Germany. I am amazed 40 years later that they are still in front line service. I think that the up grades are good especially the A.C. 👍
I remember those barracks. I was in Germany from 84-85. Before that I was stationed at Fort Lewis 2/1 Inf 9th Div as a 11B from 81-83. After this I joined the Illinois National Guard 178 Inf 33rd Div from 86-96.😊
Thanks for the sitrep Cappy. I really appreciated the breadcrumbs into how shipping our old Bradleys to the current conflict helps to grease the treads toward making sure our new Bradley's are cool enough to pick up chicks in. Both in regards to the field testing and the $$$.
As a former BFIST guy myself, I'm actually surprised 2/3rds of them are still operational in Ukraine. That's a looong time to survive a full spectrum, high intensity combat theater for a Brad. Mechanical turnover alone should've cut their numbers to that much, to say nothing of combat loss
@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing The man clearly has neither honor nor conscience and is busy with primitive propaganda, and the figures he gives have nothing to do with reality. If you watch military operations on channels that try to be as objective as possible, you can see almost daily losses of the corresponding vehicles.
@@alexnderrrthewoke4479BS the Bradley has performed very well in Ukraine the Ukrainian crews love the vehicle and it's superior to any of the Russian IFV.
@@Иван_Абрамовif the Ukrainian were losing a Bradley a day they wouldn't have any left. You need to stop coping the Bradley has performed very well the Ukrainian crews love it. The Bradley is the best IFV in Ukraine.
Bradley Master Gunner/ Platoon Sergeant / Bradley Commander, Gunner, Driver Love the vehicle but we may be putting way too much lipstick on the pig. 40 tons? WoW...
I was a Bradley driver in Iraq, M2A2 variant. We got some really nice air conditioning in our Bradleys. It was a really nice system. There was even this crazy vest the crew could wear that was hooked into a a cooled water system too! Unfortunately, this was all too little too late, as after 10 months we swapped to mraps and stopped using them. I think US forces were trying to stop destroying the roads with track or something.
If you're going to think of it, FPV drones are just remote controlled missiles. I'm guessing we could pretty much use active protective systems or other types to defeat them.
The M2A2 ODS models had a 600hp Cummins turbo diesel but the transmission was only rated for 500hp so that part sucked! I was an old ADA guy on the Bradley M6 Linebackers!
@@davidgoodnow269 I was in that MOS right before cell phones were a thing and my first Bradley was a BSFV Bradley Stinger Fighting Vehicle, then once testing was done we got fielded our M6 Linebacker Bradley’s. Those we lost the TOW launcher and it was replaced with the 4rd stinger launcher. Don’t remember the elevations but we did engage targets with both gun and missiles. Those were fun times!!
Fun fact: The U.S. during ww2, they upgraded the M1 Sherman design to incorporate lessons learned from the tanks' performance. The M1 Sherman, while the Sherman's were more then a match for early war german tanks, the new panthers, stugs, and Tigers required the tanks be modified to compete with them. One variant nicknamed the M4A3E1 "Jumbo" sherman was up armored then the M1A3 Sherman that had different mechanical components for it suspensions to hold the weight of the new armor, while it orginially recieved the Inferior 76 short-barreled cannon. The Jumbo Shermans Turret was enlarged to grant the tank the potential of mount the longer barreled M1 cannon in future refit. While the tank was a upgrade from the original, it was still a medium tank with slightly thicker armor.
Bottomless American war budget, millions of civilians all with a singular focus on patriotism, and an endless supply of coffee/monster is something that's been baffling nations around the world for almost 100 years.
Thanks for the memory. The M2A1, Bradley, with the V on the TOW missile launcher. The 24th ID a.k.a the Victory Division, so all our vehicles had a V painted somewhere. All Brads had that V painted on the TOW launches.
The literal only reason why the turtle tanks momentarily had any success was that the Ukrainians suffered from a severe shortage of just about everything including ATGM's and the one thing that the turtle tank design is pretty good at is dissipating the hit from a standard PG-7 warhead strapped onto an FPV drone. Tandem warheads, direct artillery hits, APFSDS hits from large caliber guns and so on just punch straight through. We've seen plenty of them destroyed recently but people will still mindlessly parrot lines about invincible turtle tanks that are currently getting smashed.
Turtle armor's not going to do anything against higher performance AT. The only reason they're doing so well is that Ukraine had to substitute a lot of drones to cover the lack of supply of high performance ordnance. Also, their entire job is for demining. They are not for fighting.
im an electronic warfare specialist so its always cool to see new systems using our equipment and techniques; also the jammers are active and/or reactive to threats.
@@viewer3412 drones still aren’t the only issue, I’m assuming the jamming system is a dukev3 which will protect the vehicle from IED’s and MOST drones even after AI has been implemented since those will be expensive and less common. Not to mention the ability to cut enemy comms in an engagement.
yeah, it's sort of like the IR countermeasure to the IR guided missiles, it's basically a giant IR light that confuses the missile, till they got the missiles to home in on the light
@@jerricklittle3306 AI is more and more becoming a commodity, for example AI chips in mobile phones. You can already get AI SOC for prices that might double the cost of the drone, but would likely be more than enough processing power for final guidance to target. One drone with AI is better value than two without if it hits and they don't because of jamming.
What's tragic is that there are 2800 vehicles in storage, max. 700 is going to be upgraded, and yet only 186 Bradleys (less, than 7% of the stored, unused ones!) are sent to where those would be really useful and used for the purpose they had been built. Bradley is highly effective even in its older config in Ukraine, and yet they got only 186 of the 2800.
Hopefully more are destined for Ukraine in the recently passed $60 billion funding package (finally). And (depending on the Presidential election) more in the 2024-25 settlement.
Let’s say a fully equipped soldier spends 3 hours inside a compartment, with no aircon and it’s 120F/48C, how effective is he going to be if getting out to fight?
I asked him to go to a baseball game with me today and he said he was busy with his real family. it's cool, it happens. glad he's happy. at least I have my M7 Bradley.
"We will be using the Bradley (first designed in 1963) until the 2050's....." No we won't. WW3 will make sure of that. The question is are we going to wait that long before we wise up and build a better platform instead of slapping more doodads on a something that would lose to a Panzer IV
I mean obviously I agree we need to innovate, but it takes 10x longer to develop a new platform, develop the logistics to support that new platform, training, etc. I don’t see the issue of an upgrade package that costs less, and definitely adds to the vehicles lethality and survivability. As to the “losing to the Panzer IV” see the video my above comment is referring to lol
It definitely has good crew survivability despite high casualty rates which every armored vehicles is going through this war. The BMP have shown to be rather dangerous if hit
@Shoelessjoe78 to be fair, the abrams were meant for the us logistics, and few were provided. The Bradley was meant to perform a wider variety of roles and is better for this type of war
@@kameronjones7139 I'm not saying they're trash by any means just that the Bradley is proving more effective. And frankly we should hand them a couple hundred more. As noted those are old hulls that won't be used by the US for the*final gen Bradley's
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lol, visually confirmed by whom bagdad bob like yourself?
Still to heavy at 40 tons as the ground pressure must be awful!
Yanks like big & heavy to compensate but this is over the top as at least 30 tons on such a frame is still heavy but useable.
The 25ton Bradly has a PSI of 7.7 which is pretty meh but up about 30 tons 9.24 which is just passable.
40 tons for a ground pressure of roughly 12.34 is to much as so much ground will become unable to be traversed.
A human foot is 16 PSI which any usable vehicle for all terrain you want to be 11PSi minimum but less is desirable.
FV103 Spartan was made to meet 5PSI for ground pressure for a reason.
Even the Marder C class used in limited numbers for specific applications mainly in urban settings has 11.8 PSI ground pressure at 37.4 tons which normally is 28.5 or 33.5 ton load out as the A1/A2 or A3 set up for a reason.
The Germans overweighed their AFV's due to budget constraints but this newest Bradley has gone over that in ground pressure which will come back to bit them.
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Turret ring: "I'm tired boss..."
I bet that ring is beefier than an excavators lmfao
FYI 40 tons is 4 tons heavier than a Russian T-55.
The new M-2 really puts the "ph" in "oomph".
Brilliant, made me laugh 🤣
the turret ring is pulling the weight like that one spiderman meme, and the VA will still say the back issue it gets aren't service related
"...dog tired"
I was mechanized infantry in Iraq and even though I was a dismount we still had to spend a lot of time in the motor pool working on the Brads. We hated this thing in the rear but once deployed the unmistakable ground shake and the thunderous sound of a Bradley group approaching to pick us up after a patrol was very reassuring. They performed real well once deployed.
Thank you for your service
so the cost to actually run them was insane you are saying ? all those hours at the pool?
@@markhowells13 to keep them updated with the latest armor and optics yeah they ate up our units budget. We had old desert camo with forest camo interceptor vests and carried M-16A4 with the rails to attach optics etc to them. Funnily enough we at least had the airborne 249 SAWs with the collapsible stocks to facilitate getting in and out of the Bradleys easier. You’d think they’d want everyone equipped with M-4s for the same reason but they just didn’t have the money to spare. Fuel, maintenance, Bradleys ammo, etc are all crazy expensive. This was 2005ish btw.
@@dabluflcn so all the infantry they were supposed to transport were underfunded ?
@@markhowells13 no the unit was well funded but our speciality was being mechanized infantry. We just used dated but effective weapons. They fired the same round as newer smaller rifles. Military units have budgets and concessions have to be made so a given unit can fulfill its specialized role on the battlefield. My unit happened to be all in on the Bradley and while we complained about it in the rear, it performed like a top in country.
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Warthunder forum members: "Watch this"
Classic 😂
Also WT forumites: "Security clearances are for wusses..."
😂😂😂
The mods must age faster than presidents from the stress
The "my dad upgraded to a new family" line caught me 100% off guard. Killing me over here!
It’s cool , He had to spend time with his girlfriend’s 3rd cousins grand nephew . I didn’t want to hang out anyway.
His loss. I doubt his presence would have have been anything more than a net negative on the man you turned out to be. You are nothing short of an inspiration to all the young that follow your channel. Keep up the great work my dude. 🫡
Dad is just setting up new franchise's.
Totally caught off guard by that. Funny idea.
Your father’s new family resulted in massive cost overruns that resulted in a final product that is underpowered and overweight.
Bradley Lead Engineers: "We dont need AC looking at our historic deployments."
Every subsequent deployment: "We're going to the dessert."
Delicious
Wow Cappy, 17:06 "Just like my dad upgraded and got a new family." So much pain and so much to unpack there. It is ok buddy, it is not your fault, sending you a virtual hug.
You don’t know that, it might be his fault 😂 JK!
It now has WiFi, Bluetooth & a Ring doorbell camera. 😁
no jacuzzi.
Drop down crayon trays for midfight snacks
@@vladcraioveanu233 The water kept sloshing out.🤨
You just can't run away from IOT lol
@@Jinisinsane 😆
2500 Bradleys in active use
2800 Bradleys in storage
5000 M1 Abrams in active use
3600 M1 Abrams in storage
Stalin: "Quantity has a quality all its own,"
Americans: "Why not have both?"
Appears USA is lacking quality.
@@klardfarkus3891 Sure, if you ignore the fact that the vehicles that the USA is operating on its own (i.e, not loaning or selling to other countries) are heads and shoulders above the vehicles of any other nation. You know there's a serious issue when a country like Russia uses propaganda and lies to hype up their vehicles while the US is releasing entire technical manuals to the public detailing only *some* of the vehicle's capability.
@@klardfarkus3891Them I wanna know what quality Russian tanks are if American ones are "bad", lol
@@FederalistDegtyarev American tanks are built to transfer money from gullible taxpayers to the military industrial complex. They are not designed for combat. Too big and too heavy for the terrain. Why do you think ukraine has pulled them from the frontline when ukraine needs firepower? A Russian tank is half the size and weight of an Abrams and has the same firepower.
@@klardfarkus3891 You left the part out that Russian tanks are "half the size and weight" cause they have sacrificed armor, defensive systems, and sensors. That is why they blow up spectacularly and have turrets that participate in space programs.
Russian tanks are perfect for Russia and other high-population, low-education states. Cause they are cheap, moddable, and farmers can a least get it from A to B and yes they have decent firepower. But they don't care about crew survival. Which fit the MO of these countries, throwing away lives for territory.
Also, whatever corrupt funny business the West does for the East does the same as it's BUILT-IN feature. Calling the kettle black.
“lemme get EVERYTHING on the menu, please” ahh Bradley 🙏😭
When you talked about an AC unit, I immediately imagined one of those ancient units that sit in a window, half sticking out of a large hole cut out in the back of the vehicle :D
There is no AC. Cooling vests.
@@agga7517 slow clap
@@magnusgreel275 apparently I was wrong, E1 has AC, thanks to the other guy for correcting me.
Like the one that fell on that old person in Happy Gilmore
Upgrade Budget $750 million not $75 million 🚜💪
So, if 2,800 Bradley IFVs are chilling... then in fact only about half of the Bradleys need to chill out.
The real information is in the comments
Chilling in the sense that they are in a scrapyard.
@@Withnail1969The Bradleys are not only a mobile scrapyard, they are also a mobile scrapyard creator!
Bradley and Chill, FTFY
As a former Bradley guy in Germany, bout time she got some real love. Always told people not to sleep on their potential... look at her go in Ukraine
I was in Germany too! 47th FSB, '03 to '07.
Remember, kick out the dismounts to take your rightful spot on the squad bench to sleep. Fucking nerds
Just eating ruzz armor, what she's always wanted
2026 Bradley
- Coffee machine added
- Pet compartment added
- Toilet added
You missed the "safe space"
-shooting range added
But can it brew up a cup of tea?
you know that toilet will pee like the pee chute in the AC-130, airborne guys know what I'm talking about
any room for service animals?
A couple months ago this channel was being sponsored by Raytheon. Now it’s Fishing Clash. Idk what’s going on, but I’m with you every step of the way, Cappy.
I think Raytheon might own Fishing Clash.....
@@Taskandpurpose 😂 maybe they’re using it to train the next generation of AI drones.
This might be your funniest video ever, btw.
@@Taskandpurpose Well, you gotta use a sonar somehow .. :P
@@Taskandpurposethey're using the controls to increase recruitment within the fishing community pretty soon you'll be able to lob grenades as if you were sitting in your lazyboy relaxing with your favorite fishing game.
Simp bot detected @@MrOtistetrax
5:50 that’s me on the left (in the TC hatch) and my driver on the right (gunner hatch)!! During this time we were set up at an Observation Post for training, just observing artillery rounds.
Very epic
Hello from Poland!
I heard only positive opinions about Bradley from Ukrainian soldiers.
It's true that equipment suffers heavy losses, but it literally saves soldiers' lives every day. And this is invaluable in the conditions of enemy artillery superiority and huge numbers of drones. It must be admitted that the Ukrainians, due to lack of other options, sometimes used them quite recklessly, to raid russian infantry dismounting from vehicles.
Soviet IFVs often burn crew alive inside. Bradleys are surprisingly durable. They can even cope with 30 mm bullets from BTRs, and at really close distances.
As for us, we are finishing the procedures with our IFV - Borsuk (Badger). There should be an executive agreement soon, and the industry has already started producing the first dozen or so pre-series units. I'm really happy about it, because I wouldn't even fit into our 60-year-old BMP-1 xd.
Greetings to allies and all people of good will!
Nice knowledge
"Badger don't give a fuck" is a well known compliment. The Badger is a rugged tough animal, fitting that a fine Poland BMP be named after it. Good day sir
Welp, first comment got ghosted by YT’s overreaching censorship again, so I’ll just say: good. That’s how they’re supposed to work.
Good luck with your own armor developments. Love to see an ally getting serious.
Should be noted that the Bradley's being sent to Ukraine are *much* older and outdated models. If the older models are doing this well against Russian aggression, imagine what the up-to-date models are capable of.
@@azurblueknights "Andy Clark - World Beater"
DOD Contractor: How many sensors do you want?
ARMY: YES!!!
DoD: this doesn't make sense!
army: that is why we need sensors sir
What color?
ARMY: copy the BMPT asap.
@@mastamage1231 we need sensors to monitor all the sensors
"Sometimes, you need a little more gun." - The Engineer
Engineer
We need enough power train to move whatever you guys keep adding.
that turret alone has GOT TO BE a PMCS nightmare.
Maybe, if theyre all turrets in the sense that they rotate, they may be not too bad if you can take them off the ring, definitely not light but one can hope, at least the ones on the front, didn’t see the back stuff, jesus, hope electrical isn’t too bad
I’ve been retired since ‘03 and PCMS was the first thing I thought of. Many hours of trouble shooting and pulling and repairing or replacing.
As a former armor crewman, all I see are nooks and crannies strategically designed to catch and retain mud. God help these guys at the wash rack. So far, no new technology has made the 3" hose and spade replaceable. Getting the gunk off of these things is good old fashioned work.
@@sidgarrett7247 Beats getting blown up and no worse than fixing aircraft except for the dirt. I did fighters for a living (and all sorts of terrestrial stuff off duty) and if my or my bros survival depends on being a competent technician then it's time to become one. Any crewmember could dual-role as an electronics tech, mechanic or both and the more ya do the better you get. One of my favorite tools is the Time Domain Reflectometer (cheap today, when I worked Phantoms they were as big as a large suitcase) which makes continuity checks a breeze.
AFV have become like wingless aircraft (Lear-Siegler made many electronics for both even back in the proverbial day) and fixing those systems is a solved problem given wise maintenance management. I always thought the armed forces should have some pure technician career tracks so the best technicians are not forced out of maintenance by the need to make rank to make more money. Real techs are happy at our work (and hate dealing with "adult child care").
While losing vehicles is expensive, if it successfully protected the soldiers inside I'd argue it was ultimately successful in its primary role. We can spit out new Bradley's by the week, we can't replace the lives and experience.
Yet..
@hundredfireify Always funny to see people trying to act smart with the most nonsensical responses ever. Sure, maybe 200 years later we'll have fully cloned soldiers with combat experience ingrained into their brains. Still completely irrelevant to the conversation.
Many are recoverable or are cannibalised
@@apollo1694Your arrogance is your vice, we have bipedal AI powered robots from multiple companies in operation in the private sector. Not to mention the mules with weapons platforms in operation in Ukraine right now from US contractors. Military is usually 40+ years ahead in classified tech than the public knows. It’s literally just a budgetary issue to get fleets of drones and 24/7 remote operated robots on the frontline, and running vehicles. It’s just cheaper to use people right now.
You didnt mention that out of the supposed number of Bradley’s destroyed in Ukraine almost all occupants survived unlike the Russian IFVS and tanks.
Tanks may cost a lot of cash but attrition of trained crews will cost you a war.
Na man... Just watched a Bradley on fire. All burning Inside1. 1 Ukrainian stumbling out burning... Walking like hes lost... Still burning... Falling on his knees and then on his stomache.
@@nemiw4429 high probability of survivability doesn't mean its guaranteed, regardless i would much rather be in a bradley than those tin can BTR's
@@ojskrimpsuun528 its 2024...you missed a thing or two from uralwagonzavod...
@@simonschneider5913 that place has done fuk all lmao, the battlefield stats are not in russias favor against western armor. Try again brody, russia would get mopped up against any near peer western nation, if you cant see that you are ignorant, blissfully or not
5 metres of accuracy after an 8-kilometre flight is astounding for an artillery round. The networking capability is something the fly boys have, and finally the GIs are upgrading, well done.
don't forget there's small FPV drones that can range for them, meaning they can shoot over defilade and hit targets with line of sight too, we've seen that tactic in Ukraine
@@jimbothegymbro7086 Yes, I know them, however a network of drones could achieve so much more.
50 meters, but still that is not enough!
We got a artillery which can shoot 40 km with an error rate of 2 meters, guided artillery tho.
Against a lot of targets 2m margin is overkill though right? Most things you dont need a direct hit against and the things you do tend to measure more than 2m across.
@@Felix-Memoria. Oh yes, I have seen those.
All those extra turrets really just mean they'll have a hard time negotiating the limited vertical clearance of most drive thrus, otherwise I see no issue!
Enough to scare the local McDonald’s employees
@@Artificial_Unintelligence754 The only thing that scares McDonalds employees is Gruesome Newsom.
I'm far cry from a mechanic, and know little about electronics. However, all those systems, which are cool and have a worthwhile purpose, seem like a lot of work, and would require tech specialists, to maintain them even in the best conditions; let alone overseas. But, the military does have a lot of experience taking new flakey tech, and eventually making it efficient and manageable; after some time of course.
Realistically that's sort of a real concern, just for weight not size. Make something too big and all of a sudden you can't drive it anywhere. Like the Abrams, it's too heavy for certain bridges and other maneuvers, add on too much stuff and you might limit yourself.
Wait til you add a anti drone cope cage.
Just need a cope cage to make the package complete.
The Merkava and Namer both have cope cages and APS, so there’s no shame to put one on the Bradley.
This is definitely one of the best military channels on RUclips. Excellent work
This is one of the only channels I consistently watch as soon as a new video drops. The quality of this is incredible for two reasons. 1. It's very informative. The information presented is done so in an easy to understand way, while providing critical information with very little fat. 2. I like Cap. I mean, how he comes off as a person. He's serious in his presentation while also being "silly" enough to make me crack a smile every now and again. Overall, 10/10 channel and videos. He deserves all of his success.
I won't be satisfied until that turret's got an ice cream dispenser.
Hey, if it worked wonders in the Pacific...
By order of Joe Biden
I'll forever love the bushmaster simply because it's hilarious that we named a cannon like a lawn mower
Bro, MY CHADLY, M7A3 gunner and driver from back in the day. Love to see it.
Where's your regulation Gunner's Stache, high speed??
“Chadly”? It’s Bradley….
The IFV's weight is getting up there with WWII Tigors and Panthers lol.
crazy
@@thepeero9670 Indeed!
@jayklink851 won't matter tho with new tech and a new engine
I bet that thing has sensors to each rotating point of the tracks and can tell what kind of terrain it's in for the mode it needs to be in like modern cars. With that weight added to it I wouldn't be surprised if it has systems to fight against sinking in mud and all types of shit
@@ausinasmith96 even the most modern technology can't win against good old mud.
@@ausinasmith96 No doubt! I'm sure this bad boy has some nifty censors.
Platoon Sergeant: PMCS your Bradley
Me: I'm tired boss!
A few corrections about some facts around the base M2A4. It's the same hull as the M2A3, reused -- all A4s are rebuild from earlier generations. It gains its additional ground clearance from the improved suspension components which have also been fielded to the M2A3 and M2A2 ODS-SA fleets. It fits the same number of RAT tiles as all other Bradleys. The A4 has a negligible weight increase over the A3, both of which tip the scales at around 40 short tons fully combat loaded.
You forgot to add that it's keeping the POS M242, until it gets replaced by another POS that's twice the size. Also cooling vest, so dudes in the back get to wear extra shit when they dismount. Apparently in the year 2024 putting a fucking a/c into one of these things is still impossible 🤣
@@agga7517 M2A4E1 gets an AC unit.
Wonder if you can see the welded blanks over the old firing ports. My 1st Brad in Germany was a M2A2 (non ODS) after a field problem you can see the tan paint showing by the running gear. You could also see along the sides the welded blanks over the old firing ports. We also had the swim curtain that had to be checked EVERY Monday!
Good times.
@@glenndean6 for the systems, like the MGS did, cooling vest is for the rest, unless something changed in the past year 🤷♂
@@agga7517 Yes, the M2A4E1 changed in the past year, which has an AC system.
Ha! "Dad upgraded..."
felt that bro
My dad was the gunner in the Bradley back in the 80s. His TC told the driver to pop a wheelie in it in front of some higher ranking personnel. No one believes me but I saw them do it when I was a kid. That reversed it and went neck for a while and then popped it forward. The front end went up. It happened at some kind of family event in South Texas. My dad upgraded to another family later too 😆 but yeah...I saw them do that.
Thanks!
🎉thank you
When I was in the Navy, the time I was happiest working on the aircraft was when we were doing upgrades. The normal troubleshooting pop & swap routine was dull, boring, and frustrating as hell when the guy who doesn't know his... I mean... when technicians made errors such as routing the pins into the wrong slots on a wire bundle.
But when we got to install upgrades, it was a whole different experience, and was one of the most satisfying aspects of my job.
So thanks for the upgrades, sorry about the extra hours, but man is it satisfying when the jobs done!
Same here in the USAF. I can tell the real techs. My favorite example was on a Moody E model Phantom where the Depot team used a hot knife on the potting compound on a bulkhead feedthrough containing the IFF coax. We inspected the whole line visually with no joy then I broke out the TDR and found the potted gap inside their (nicely potted) f---up. They had to know they cut the poor little RG-58 coax but didn't write up squat. I do not miss potted connections one bit. Give me a Davis kit any day.
Your comment about your dad starting a new family was by far the funniest joke of your video. That was a good one!
I am partial to the "driving around the AO" comment. Had me in stitches.
With that 30% failure rate. That doesnt mean your toast. Now it means your armor better work like it had to without it the APS
Thus all the ERA and thicker armor. This version of the bradley has a much higher survivability than any Russian IFVs if I had to make a guess.
@@weasle2904 survivability? There isn't such term in russian
that means that you need 3 to 4 fpv drones instead of one. Which could learn to fly in swarms by 2025. drone tech is evolving faster than defense.
@@drzerg2 you already need 8 to 10 per attack with 50% plus reportly failing to even reach the target and most of the rest missing or being innefective.
Now you need 20 to 30 drones. Even more if the vehicles are operating with more than one.
@@imjashingyou3461 that's with the current state of drone pilots. Drone piloting has to be the safest job in war, so expect more deadly strikes as people only get better at doing just that without dying like field units
0:10 very fitting to have the bradley with that turret named "chaos"
*_BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!_*
@@HeIsAnAli MILK FOR THE CORN FLAKES
@@HeIsAnAliTzeentch #1
Actually, if you've ever played Horizon: Zero Dawn..you already know that turret, and you know it's the precursor to the "Kopesh" or deathbringer as it's more commonly called in the more primitive world of the survivors of Zero Dawn.
That turret is pure deathbringer. Just ditch the Bradly half, give it legs instead, and it'll be destroying the entire world, very shortly..Just as soon as you give it the combat drone AI, and the capability to breakdown & convert organic matter into useable bio-fuels..that's the end of the world, folks.
So 'nice' (could be I'm being slightly sarcastic & somewhat facetious here) to see that they're already half way there, with the actual development of our entire planet's Deathbringers..
And with AI also nearing the point that it could go rogue & take over stuff, and refuse to comply & 'behave' as we demand of it..a bit like 'Vast Silver' did in Horizons lore..
Nice to see the US military is so fully on track with the destruction of our entire planet, and all biological life on it, as is prophesy in Horizon..
Cause that turret, is pretty much EXACTLY THAT! 🤔
bradley feels like BWP-1 but has actual fucking effort put into it's modernisation
That’s literally the idea of the Bradley isint it?
The Bradley is now in heavy tank territory.
But without the equivalent armament.
Abrams is still more than 50% heavier but yeah, there were WWII German wonderweapons that were smaller
Not even half the weight of true Heavy Tanks. 50% lighter than the lightest western MBT ( essentially a Medium Tank with Heavy Main Gun).
Infinitely more capable than sny WW2/ Cold War fielded Heavy Tank
Bradley has absolutely ratio'd every piece of ComBloc Armor it's faced over the last 40 years
relative to the Abrams it's more of a medium tank, both in weight and capability, it won't frontally kill MBTs, but neither could the Sherman in WW2, but the Bradley doesn't have to carry troops over the engine like the Sherman did so it's somewhat better, if a lil more expensive per unit (alright a lotta bit more expensive)
@@jmjones7897 do you normally call the KV a medium tank? It was 45 tons. The Tiger 1 was 50 tons. MBTs are obviously different, but they too go all the way down to the 40 ton range (Leo 1, S tank)
Cappy always makes my day🥃 Here's to Jumpstart the military RUclipsrs "Boyband" 🎙
Cheers to that !
HOWWWW
I think since they have been looking to replace the Bradley this is a good chance to see what works and where they can improve. The Bradley is a beast already. Its replacement will be ridiculous in the best possible way.
While a intercept rate of 70% percent sounds bad. In war if putting a sandbag on the front of the tank increases your survivability by even a little. It's worth it.
70% intercept rate is infinitely better than the 0% intercept rate they had before the system was added
I don't know how much the calculus has changed with modern munitions and vehicles but if I recall correctly they did a study back in WWII on the benefits of "addon armor" and it was found that the additional "armor" only provided marginal improvements at best while severely increasing the amount of wear on tracks, suspension, transmission and engine due to the increased weight. Didn't stop the soldiers strapping sandbags, spare track, and whatever else they had handy to their tanks. Sometimes the psychological effect matters more than the reality.
On the other hand an APS system that has a 70% success rate would dramatically increase the survivability of vehicles. Better a defense that works most of the time than none at all.
The 30% is probably dependent on circumstances like range, weather, lighting, the weapon, the Bradley's speed, and terrain. It probably fails in roughly 30% of tested conditions, not just randomly failing 30% of the time.
And the U.S. often undersells its military capabilities. It might well have a 99% success rate or something but they'll only admit to 70% because as long as the Russians think it has a 30% failure rate, they're more likely to risk taking a shot (or a second shot) and getting taken out by return fire.
That new family thing is gold. Thank you.
As an ex bradley gunner, I am happy for my dudes to get these upgrades. Whatever keeps us kickin we'll take it.
I would make a views joke, but instead I'm going to say that I love Cappy's "huh?!" face
I gave it my best shot haha
The box of goldfish crackers at 6:00 reminds me I didn't have lunch.
I rewound the video to see what that thing was. They're bringing the flavor blast to the enemy. 😂
Just another reason our military is on top
Huh. When it comes to total damage output, a bradley might actually do more than an Abrams when it comes to laying waste to an area. Not necessarily against hardened targets, but a few bradleys running loose in a rear area could wreak a shitload of havoc.
During Desert Storm the Bradly killed more enemy tanks than the Abrams to put it into perspective. Many of them have a couple of TOW anti tank missiles on the side of the turret.
@happyjohn354 the linebacker has 2 launchers. Those were the ones that wrecked so many tanks. The one dumb design feature - you have to get out to reload. Not a great idea when you crest a hill to see 50 tanks awiveling towards you..
This is by far one of my favorite videos you have done. Humor on point!
Interesting info, thanks Chris.
BTW, 10.7 avg age, not 10.2 AND that was as of 2018, see the top label at 0:48 sec
Budget so far is $750M, not $75 (15:17)
He said $75 million and showed $750million.
In 1986 I "bought" 4 bradleys at an invoice price of 1.5 mil each. You sign alot of things daily, but this was one of the better ones. We were a new company to round out our battalion in West Germany 86 and got our Bradleys
That little space between the wheels in the middle is making me hope it's evolving into a scorpion tank...
_No lack of courage!_
Oh the engineers definitely didn't "miss" adding a standby mode, it almost definitely wasn't in the original requirements and they can't just add things willy nilly without change orders.
It's like you forgot how the army works lmao
Are you saying the Bradly is a hardly known vehicle at 6:33? Are you kidding? the Bradly is very well known !
1: Bad time code
2: You should listen better
You dont get the point
APS isn't really designed for FPV drones. Keep in mind most drones attack at an angle of 45 degrees. APS sensors only have a 30 degree vertical arc
@@davidgoodnow269 I think you have a bit of a misunderstanding here. The system in question can detect stuff from a km away I am sure but to get 1km range out of one of those projectiles from that launcher would be anything short of a miracle.
But, it does depend if they fitted IRST tracking. As far as I know the only thing with APS sensors is it will detect projectiles. Drones are way too slow to be picked up by APS so doubtful (if it searched for everything then the tracker would be overwhelmed I assume). IRST tracking would allow a bushmaster to fire at flying targets easily. Even BMPs have this capacity. The issue purely lies in target allocation not targeting. There's not really anything that can track a drone sized target outside of human eye to my knowledge. Some passive sensors maybe (especially thermal imaging scanners like present on some AA systems that have their own IRST on them).
Either way we won't know until we find out fully.
There is also the problem of the actual threat verification. Drone operators can fly their drones in from basically level from the sides or back and take out the vehicle. But if the threat detection system is programmed to respond to slow moving threats at ground level, now friendly vehicles and even troops will be targeted. Sorting such a system out will prove to be very difficult.
I love Cappy humor amidst talking about serious the implications that the new hardware presents. I love hearing about Carl and Barbra's marriage trouble in the middle discussing whether or the APS will save my life or not. Also, words cannot express just how valuable the information in Ukraine is. It's the closest thing to a conventional war that we've had to deal with for a long time. If troops ever have the hit the ground(I hope not), they'll be using equipment tailor made for their mission and have in-depth knowledge for the enemy's modus operandi while on top of a weaker enemy worn down by years of fighting. Again I hope it it never comes to that.
The Daddy issues injected into the description of the bradly was a nice touch😂
It’s insane how many people cannot comprehend the benefits of helping the Cossacks figure it out amongst themselves, on their own land, without our soldiers.
Even better there is nothing we don't know about Russian military.
We know not what waste money on and where to spend.
The dad getting a new family got you a new subscriber 😆😆😆👊👊👊👊
I can't wait to see the "Pentagon Wars II: More. Better, Slower." I wonder who will pick it up Amazon or Netflix?
I was JUST about to make a PentaWars reference
I love how the old M-113 based FIST-V was disguised as a TOW vehicle.
As a former 11M , assigned to 1/7th Inf.3rd Div in 1984 are unit had transition from the M113 to the M3 Bradley, brand new. Are unit received them with the factory O.D. green paint in West Germany. I am amazed 40 years later that they are still in front line service. I think that the up grades are good especially the A.C. 👍
I was in 1/15th INF 3rd ID in 84. We were transitioned in late 83 to 11M. Small world!!
Yes it is I was stationed in Achaffenberg, Graves barracks. 😌
@@josephgonzales4802 I was in Kitzingen Harvey barracks. Was there from 83 to 85
I remember those barracks. I was in Germany from 84-85. Before that I was stationed at Fort Lewis 2/1 Inf 9th Div as a 11B from 81-83. After this I joined the Illinois National Guard 178 Inf 33rd Div from 86-96.😊
I retired from the Army in 08 now live offgrid in Idaho
Thanks for the sitrep Cappy. I really appreciated the breadcrumbs into how shipping our old Bradleys to the current conflict helps to grease the treads toward making sure our new Bradley's are cool enough to pick up chicks in. Both in regards to the field testing and the $$$.
About time we get some active protection
As a former BFIST guy myself, I'm actually surprised 2/3rds of them are still operational in Ukraine.
That's a looong time to survive a full spectrum, high intensity combat theater for a Brad.
Mechanical turnover alone should've cut their numbers to that much, to say nothing of combat loss
@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing The man clearly has neither honor nor conscience and is busy with primitive propaganda, and the figures he gives have nothing to do with reality. If you watch military operations on channels that try to be as objective as possible, you can see almost daily losses of the corresponding vehicles.
@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThingyou mean 2/3 destroyed and a btr 82 beat bradley
@@alexnderrrthewoke4479BS the Bradley has performed very well in Ukraine the Ukrainian crews love the vehicle and it's superior to any of the Russian IFV.
@@Иван_Абрамовif the Ukrainian were losing a Bradley a day they wouldn't have any left.
You need to stop coping the Bradley has performed very well the Ukrainian crews love it.
The Bradley is the best IFV in Ukraine.
Bradley Master Gunner/ Platoon Sergeant / Bradley Commander, Gunner, Driver
Love the vehicle but we may be putting way too much lipstick on the pig. 40 tons? WoW...
I was a Bradley driver in Iraq, M2A2 variant. We got some really nice air conditioning in our Bradleys. It was a really nice system. There was even this crazy vest the crew could wear that was hooked into a a cooled water system too! Unfortunately, this was all too little too late, as after 10 months we swapped to mraps and stopped using them. I think US forces were trying to stop destroying the roads with track or something.
Lol they will drive over civilians cars in the middle east but are worried about the roads?
Its lacking a McDonalds with that increased weight
One day there might be sensors sensing other sensors sensing them. Bradley commander: "I sense we're being sensed. I'm incensed!"
Seems "sensible"😏
The Bradley is evolving into a tank
The Chat Support with Carl bit was priceless. The multi-tiered side tangents away from IFVs into his personal life was spot on.
"Chadly" was an underrated joke 😂
If you're going to think of it, FPV drones are just remote controlled missiles. I'm guessing we could pretty much use active protective systems or other types to defeat them.
10:50 Its not a Turtle-Tank, its a Blyad-Mobile!
Love the way you roasted your dad at 5:43
Is time code wrong?
@@kolasillers7776fixed it
"Ah the US military must be deployed nearby."
"How do you know?"
"My call just dropped."
Prior Cavalry Medic here!
Having AC in these is MASSIVE
0:05 Armored Core style turret.
Daddy, I mean, Bradley chiiiill
Hey the new M2A4 is 10.7🤣🤣 0:48
The M2A2 ODS models had a 600hp Cummins turbo diesel but the transmission was only rated for 500hp so that part sucked! I was an old ADA guy on the Bradley M6 Linebackers!
Same with A3s, you also can't self-recover any more, I assume it will be the same with the A4.
@@davidgoodnow269 I was in that MOS right before cell phones were a thing and my first Bradley was a BSFV Bradley Stinger Fighting Vehicle, then once testing was done we got fielded our M6 Linebacker Bradley’s. Those we lost the TOW launcher and it was replaced with the 4rd stinger launcher. Don’t remember the elevations but we did engage targets with both gun and missiles. Those were fun times!!
@@davidgoodnow269 it would have to be somekinda new 25mm proxy fuse round or something, you are not hitting that small of a target with HE.
@@davidgoodnow269 Pls stop dude. You are not hitting a small drone with HE at 2K out of ODS or A3, not fucking happening.
Fun fact: The U.S. during ww2, they upgraded the M1 Sherman design to incorporate lessons learned from the tanks' performance. The M1 Sherman, while the Sherman's were more then a match for early war german tanks, the new panthers, stugs, and Tigers required the tanks be modified to compete with them. One variant nicknamed the M4A3E1 "Jumbo" sherman was up armored then the M1A3 Sherman that had different mechanical components for it suspensions to hold the weight of the new armor, while it orginially recieved the Inferior 76 short-barreled cannon. The Jumbo Shermans Turret was enlarged to grant the tank the potential of mount the longer barreled M1 cannon in future refit.
While the tank was a upgrade from the original, it was still a medium tank with slightly thicker armor.
Bottomless American war budget, millions of civilians all with a singular focus on patriotism, and an endless supply of coffee/monster is something that's been baffling nations around the world for almost 100 years.
Thanks for the memory. The M2A1, Bradley, with the V on the TOW missile launcher. The 24th ID a.k.a the Victory Division, so all our vehicles had a V painted somewhere. All Brads had that V painted on the TOW launches.
The question is, can the 4.5 million High tech solution outperform the low tech solution of the turtle tank.
Pretty sure I’ve seen like 2 videos of the “turtle tanks” getting rocked by drones. I’d definitely take active protection over that lol
Turtle tanks dont really Work that well but for a full on meat grinder assault it does Something i guess
The literal only reason why the turtle tanks momentarily had any success was that the Ukrainians suffered from a severe shortage of just about everything including ATGM's and the one thing that the turtle tank design is pretty good at is dissipating the hit from a standard PG-7 warhead strapped onto an FPV drone. Tandem warheads, direct artillery hits, APFSDS hits from large caliber guns and so on just punch straight through. We've seen plenty of them destroyed recently but people will still mindlessly parrot lines about invincible turtle tanks that are currently getting smashed.
Turtle armor's not going to do anything against higher performance AT. The only reason they're doing so well is that Ukraine had to substitute a lot of drones to cover the lack of supply of high performance ordnance.
Also, their entire job is for demining. They are not for fighting.
Protected by FPVs but they still keep being disabled by anti tank mines. 😮
im an electronic warfare specialist so its always cool to see new systems using our equipment and techniques; also the jammers are active and/or reactive to threats.
Jammers will become obsolete in 4 years as drones with AI can ignore jammers. The FIST will have to suffice in protecting the Bradley.
@@viewer3412 drones still aren’t the only issue, I’m assuming the jamming system is a dukev3 which will protect the vehicle from IED’s and MOST drones even after AI has been implemented since those will be expensive and less common. Not to mention the ability to cut enemy comms in an engagement.
@@viewer3412 of which few actually have the ability to have that Ai at any point in the future
yeah, it's sort of like the IR countermeasure to the IR guided missiles, it's basically a giant IR light that confuses the missile, till they got the missiles to home in on the light
@@jerricklittle3306 AI is more and more becoming a commodity, for example AI chips in mobile phones.
You can already get AI SOC for prices that might double the cost of the drone, but would likely be more than enough processing power for final guidance to target.
One drone with AI is better value than two without if it hits and they don't because of jamming.
He used to get confused between soldiers and shoulders, but as a military man, he now soldiers responsibility.
40 tons? Isn’t that the weight of a T72 -T80? Heavy girl
just the way western men like them
But unlike the competition less prone to making astronauts!
Appears to be the weigh if all the new western stuff that is trying to keep troops alive.
"Carl, you may have a 'Jody' to deal with, how do I fix this sensor?"
Engineer: how many upgrades do we want to have the M2A4 to have
Pentagon: YES
Some poor Iraqi man had his cell cut out while he was trying to order a pizza, and Chris didn't care because he had air movement inside the Stryker.
What's tragic is that there are 2800 vehicles in storage, max. 700 is going to be upgraded, and yet only 186 Bradleys (less, than 7% of the stored, unused ones!) are sent to where those would be really useful and used for the purpose they had been built. Bradley is highly effective even in its older config in Ukraine, and yet they got only 186 of the 2800.
Hopefully more are destined for Ukraine in the recently passed $60 billion funding package (finally). And (depending on the Presidential election) more in the 2024-25 settlement.
Agreed Ukraine get enough to stay in the fight not best Russia
I gotta say, your video thumbnail is the first one to ever make me laugh. Loved the 'more cowbell' ref.
Let’s say a fully equipped soldier spends 3 hours inside a compartment, with no aircon and it’s 120F/48C, how effective is he going to be if getting out to fight?
My dad upgraded his family too crappy it’s ok 😢
I asked him to go to a baseball game with me today and he said he was busy with his real family. it's cool, it happens. glad he's happy. at least I have my M7 Bradley.
Can we add a espresso machine somewhere up top in-between all of that new clutter?🤔
From Brad to Chad!🤣
Bradley now 40 tons?? So as much as a T72? Ouch
ChatGPT: *give me 2 Bradley’s running a train on a T-80 again, but make them THICC*
T-90M* not T-80, my bad
"We will be using the Bradley (first designed in 1963) until the 2050's....."
No we won't. WW3 will make sure of that. The question is are we going to wait that long before we wise up and build a better platform instead of slapping more doodads on a something that would lose to a Panzer IV
I mean obviously I agree we need to innovate, but it takes 10x longer to develop a new platform, develop the logistics to support that new platform, training, etc. I don’t see the issue of an upgrade package that costs less, and definitely adds to the vehicles lethality and survivability.
As to the “losing to the Panzer IV” see the video my above comment is referring to lol
Like hell the Panzer IV would see the Bradley before the Bradley saw it and TOW'd the shit out of it.
Im sure Ukraine has given their confidence in this vehicle a nice boost
It definitely has good crew survivability despite high casualty rates which every armored vehicles is going through this war. The BMP have shown to be rather dangerous if hit
Yeah they've been proving their worth for sure over there. Outshining the Abrams to be sure.
@Shoelessjoe78 to be fair, the abrams were meant for the us logistics, and few were provided. The Bradley was meant to perform a wider variety of roles and is better for this type of war
@@kameronjones7139 I'm not saying they're trash by any means just that the Bradley is proving more effective. And frankly we should hand them a couple hundred more. As noted those are old hulls that won't be used by the US for the*final gen Bradley's
Builder: So do you want the radar, drone launching cannon, turret, or missile launcher on the top?
US military: Yes.
"Iron Fist" actually beat out several other names, including Nickel Knuckles, Tin Finger, Pewter Palm, and Silver Slap.
Metal.smack was a front runner.
I love the Rock Lee footage! Iron Fist should be 8 Gates because there is a decent probability of it work but still a decent probability of it backfiring.
I'm loving the extremely dark humor. 😂😂😂