America’s New Bradley Needs to Chill Out
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The Army’s new M2 Bradley is designed to increase survivability and…. oh god look at that turret, why is it so extra? They threw the entire kitchen sink at it with new sensors, weapons, and armor! There’s barely enough room for the cannon up there anymore, that turret needs to chill out. What new capabilities did the pentagon just cram up there. And how are they a response to some of the lessons learned in modern combat?
Written by: Chris Cappy & Armando Duarte Galán
Edited by: Savvy Studios
As of 2024 the US army has 2,500 Bradley Infantry fighting vehicles of all variants that are in operational service with an extra 2,800 chilling lying around in storage. The US army has enough bradleys in a warehouse to arm several small countries several times over. The current plan is to upgrade 700 of them to the new M2A4 version by 2029. So that old one was the Bradley, this,,,, is the uh Chadley? According to this congressional budget research document the average age of these Bradleys is about 10.2 years old. (pg8) so If the army drives their IFVs like I drive my cars they still have another couple of decades left in them.
Just how different is the M2A4 Bradley from the older versions? It’s basically an entirely different vehicle so don’t dead name it. First of all the new hull is larger and thicker on the bottom to counter land mines. The vehicle is also seven inches higher from the ground so that troops don’t slam into the ceiling and break their neck if they hit a mine. The larger hull increased the amount of Bradley reactive armor tiles that could be added for protection. However all these modifications came with a downside: they started to add a lot of serious weight; in its glow up, it's gone from about 25 tons to 40 tons today.
With the added weight the Bradley started to slow down losing 10 kilometers per hour of max speed. So it was cruising at 56 km/h and was starting to sag lower to the ground. This might not sound like a big deal but we have to remember the Bradley is designed to operate alongside the Abrams main battle tank while it chugs along at 68 kmph. One of its main advantages is its maneuverability. That’s why the A4 version received a 675 horsepower 8 cylinder Diesel engine and hydraulic transmission as well as suspension and track upgrades to restore ground clearance and suspension reliability. That’s a big step up from the original 500 hp engine it had back in the 80s. All of that is to say the new version regains that lost speed.
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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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Cappy you are great! I know you're Army but please learn to read "more gooder" lol. Love the vids tho.
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 😆
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"
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.
I think it's hilarious that each Abrams in an Armored Division is supposed to be supported by two Bradleys, while each group of four Bradleys in a Mechanized Infantry Division is supposed to be supported by one Abrams . . . yet there are twice as many active Abrams as Bradleys.
"What's our MTBF and up-time looking like?" "Er . . . eight-to-one?" (Just guessing.)
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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"
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
The Stryker actually looks like that
@@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
"the documents are classified"
Warthunder forum members: "Watch this"
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.
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
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?
I won't be satisfied until that turret's got an ice cream dispenser.
Hey, if it worked wonders in the Pacific...
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
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").
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.
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.
Your comment about your dad starting a new family was by far the funniest joke of your video. That was a good one!
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.
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
@@trevorroggenkamp7237 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.
I love how the old M-113 based FIST-V was disguised as a TOW vehicle.
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.
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..
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.
"Sometimes, you need a little more gun." - The Engineer
This is definitely one of the best military channels on UA-cam. Excellent work
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….
Ha! "Dad upgraded..."
felt that bro
That little space between the wheels in the middle is making me hope it's evolving into a scorpion tank...
_No lack of courage!_
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?
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.
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.
I love you mentioned the maintenance crews taking care of this work.
Prior Cavalry Medic here!
Having AC in these is MASSIVE
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.
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
"Unlike some people in your life, this variant of the Bradley family will always be there for you" had me 100%.
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.
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)
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
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.
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.
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
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
That's something I wondered about.
It sounded like Iron Fist can intercept drones at 1 km.
Drones don't magically appear at >30° above you, they have to fly in. So, the Iron Fist detection system is 360° by < 30°. But . . . how far out? Can the Bradley gunner pull directions from the Iron Fist system to target drones or hunter-killer AT teams with the 25 mm cannon?
$100 drone with $100,000 Iron Fist munition; $100 drone with $10 25mm HE round.
@@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.
@@ramrod9556 Not at all; thermal, RF-emissions, radar return, none of those are remotely similar between humans, animals, ground vehicles, and airborne drones. Sorting to identify, difficult; sorting to exclude, not difficult at-all.
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 $$$.
That new family thing is gold. Thank you.
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
I'm pleased to hear of the upgrades. Well deserved.
As an ex bradley gunner, I am happy for my dudes to get these upgrades. Whatever keeps us kickin we'll take it.
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 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. 😂
Cappy got his humor back lol … good episode
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
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...
Its lacking a McDonalds with that increased weight
As a former 19D those new tracks with end connectors are a game changer
"Ah the US military must be deployed nearby."
"How do you know?"
"My call just dropped."
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.
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.
"Just as my dad upgraded and got a new family"
Hahahahaha
Thanks!
🎉thank you
Task & Purpose, This made me laugh so much! Thanks for sharing!
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
At 15:17 ish, you state the total cost to upgrade is $75 million but the figure on screen says $750 million. Thanks for this thorough update on what I believe to be the best IFV in the world.
10:50 Its not a Turtle-Tank, its a Blyad-Mobile!
The dad getting a new family got you a new subscriber 😆😆😆👊👊👊👊
I always thought of an active protection system catching on to the crew throwing around a football outside of shooting it down lol
5:45 craziest task and purpose lore drop ever
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.
@@user-hp7px1bw3hif 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.
Was in Iraq in 2007. We lost a Brad (and the 3 man crew). we got a replacement brad, the Turret was 2 in smaller the other M2A2. What we got was and upgraded M2A1. Don't know why I said this but if I had to take my sqd into any combat. I would want my Brad.
Even got an old Faithfull VHS player for the old school Commander.
Outstanding.
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!
The tech support bit kills me 😂
When you talk about Bradley's:
I always flash back to the movie, Pentagon Wars. Lol
Great analysis, as always. Nice to see the USA military is looking into some of the Bradley's weaknesses and addressing them.
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.
The Chat Support with Carl bit was priceless. The multi-tiered side tangents away from IFVs into his personal life was spot on.
i was a IFV section leader in Syria... just want to give a shoutout to all those mechanics downrange... you da real MVPs!
Creating Hell on Earth with enthusiasm
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.
So, ADA guy . . . I was commo, closest I think I have been to a Bradley is when two patrolling the perimeter thought I might be an enemy sapper that had gotten passed them . . . not fun, but fortunately I saw them traversing to shoot me, and put my hands up . . . anyway, if yours had Stinger-POST, could you aim the gun off it, and to what elevation? At least +45°, right? I was thinking 25mm HE at $10 a round is probably the most economical for shooting $100 drones down.
@@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.
@@agga7517 It's a _200_ round per minute chaingun, capable of dropping any number of shells inside a 1 meter circle at 2 kilometers.
Saying it can't hit a drone that is two decimeters tall and one or two meters across is like saying, "No one could ever _possibly_ hit a bird with a shotgun!"
Love the way you roasted your dad at 5:43
Is time code wrong?
@@kolasillers7776fixed it
Colonel James Burton just had a heart attack.
I used to be a Bradley Platoon leader and Bradley Commander. It was a hell of a vehicle with tremendous firepower for an IFV, but the armor was always weak. It may take a .50 cal/DshKa but that's it in a nutshell. Nowadays with it full of infantry, it's nothing more than a meat pot. Best to keep it as logistics support.
Or at this point give the excess to Ukraine at least they will get some value instead of getting scrapped
Were you a Bradley PL in the 1980s before ERA? It can stop most 30mm rounds directly head on.
@@alexd832
No. Taxpayers paid for them. Ukraine can buy them if they want them
@@josedorsaith5261 TAXPAYERS were paying to send our old, obsolete ODS ones to BAE for not-very-well-thought out upgrades that cost us double to buy them back.
As far as I'm concerned, my old steed belongs in Ukraine rather than a BAE fielding yard while they scam ways to charge the TAXPAYERS more for 'digital battlefield' crap that doesn't help.
To OP: we really do need an IFV that can do what the Israeli's did with the brilliant Merkava tank: Use their front-engine MBT hull for APC and Cavalry Vehicle duties with equal survivability alongside them, rather than hiding behind. Same speed, armor, and commonality of hull parts and electronics.
Our Brads were always kind of a piss-poor pairing for thoroughbred Abrams in the formation.
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.
Very informative. Love this channel
We had AC in Iraq 09 in the Bradley however it kinda sucked in the back but the crew had awesome cooling vest that worked extremely well
Love your work Cappy!
thanks for watching good sir!
I unironically would vote to drastically increase the military budget if they kept putting out stuff this good
"With that turret it kind of looks like a tank", "Yes sir, that has come to our attention"...
Hey look, it's the Pentagon Wars 2.
They actually made a sequel.😂😂😂
My thoughts exactly.
someone needs to invent an anti drone 12 gauge Flechette round point defense cannon, i mean drones are just fancy skeet disc's lol
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.
It reminds me of an old movie where the story was about building a new tank but the generals kept wanting to change it more and more until it was an IFV instead of a tank. Best part was holes so soldiers can shoot out off
Engineer: how many upgrades do we want to have the M2A4 to have
Pentagon: YES
Cappy always makes my day🥃 Here's to Jumpstart the military UA-camrs "Boyband" 🎙
Cheers to that !
HOWWWW
I wish my life had a "task and purpose"