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underpants

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1. Bradley's are very versatile vehicles

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jan 20, 2023, 07:17 AM

Jan 2023

The 25MM gun with the coaxial machine gun (a stripped down M60 really) plus tank killing TOW missiles give it versatile firepower including on tighter quarters than a M1 tank. Plus it can carry a 12-15 foot soldiers inside and lots of deck space outside for transport saving walking time and energy. It can get pretty much anywhere in rough terrain too. Oh they supposedly can swim too.

I spent 3 years on one as a Cav Scout. Gunner. We never swam ours. It’s a DoD boondoggle- there’s a movie starring Kelsie Grammer about that process.

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