M2 Bradley Vehicles Demonstrate Combat Power
M2 Bradley crews fire the 25 mm M242 Chain Gun and Tube-launched Optically-tracked Wire-guided (TOW) missiles from their Bradley Fighting Vehicles on simulated objectives during live-fire exercises.
The crews conduct training maneuvers, demonstrate combat power and proficiency.
The trainings was conducted to assess operational effectiveness.
The M2 Bradley, or Bradley IFV, is an American infantry fighting vehicle that is a member of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle family. It is manufactured by BAE Systems Land & Armaments, which was formerly United Defense.
The Bradley is designed for reconnaissance and to transport a squad of infantry, providing them protection from small arms fire, while also providing firepower to both suppress and eliminate most threats to friendly infantry. It is designed to be highly maneuverable and to be fast enough to keep up with heavy armor during an advance. The M2 holds a crew of three: a commander, a gunner and a driver, as well as six fully equipped soldiers.
The total cost of the program is $5,664,100,000, and the average unit costs $3,166,000.
Video Credit: U.S. Army, Army National Guard
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The Bradley did it's job in Iraq. But it's funny seeing arm chair generals spouting about shit they saw in a movie. But never saw combat with them. I was a Bradley mechanic for 15 years and did 3 Iraq tours and was also a recovery guy. I know for a fact I towed in more blown up and damaged vehicles in one tour than 98% of the people in my job back then. The Bradley saved lives and that is a fact.
Souless Deeds D 3/15 Ft Stewart.
Tango Mike bro 11B with 1/36 in 03 and 06
Thank You. We old Veterans are very Proud of You guys.
watch the movie.. people are not hating on the machine itself but on the people who were in charge of development. which was a shit show.
Souless Deeds I was 11M. I loved that beast. It was a big can of WhoopAss!!!
“It’s a troop carrier that doesn’t carry troops.” “A scout vehicle that’s too conspicuous to do reconnaissance.” “It has less armor than a snow blower.” “But It has enough ammo to wipe out half of DC.” *BUILD IT.*
i just watched Pentagon wars too it's SO fucked to know a lot of that movie was legit
I'll take a few Wiesel 2's and have some battle taxis follow me
Well they kicked ass in iraq even more then abrahams
Can it's armor repel RPG-7?.. just curious to know. :-)
Robert - The Bruce No.
"We know it's not a tank. But will the enemy?"
oh believe me they have known since the first drove off the assembly line!!!!
Yep they will
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His job is to support the infantry and not to fight with tanks
@@anticommunist5899 this might be out of place but what's with the whole Greek-Macedonia thing?
this thing took out a T-90M Russian tank
Plus dominated a whole platoon of Iraqi T72s lol
она его не уничтожила, лол) Она повредила лишь механизм поворота башни
05:01 WOW! That shot looks fantastic!
did it just ricochet?
@@blacklungraiders2819 yeah it was a training round. they don't want to destroy the target in training so they can use it for a long time. the 30mm the bradley's were shooting were training rounds too (they come in high-explosive and armor piercing- training round is neither) - you can tell because of the blue colored rounds.
Swayze Fan not a Bradley expert but spent a year in one as a dismount infantryman in operation Iraqi freedom 1... Im almost positive it’s a 25 mm canon
It ricocheted tho
@@blacklungraiders2819 yup just bounce to sky
For most of my time in the army, I was a Bradley dismount (apparently one of the non-existent guys in the back) and a driver for a short while. For the most part, a very comfortable vehicle to ride in (and fun to drive) with a great heating system unless you were the driver or in the turret. Ridiculously hot in the driver's seat and freezing in the turret. I for one was very grateful to have the Bradley as the vehicle I would have gone to war in had it come to that. When I first arrived in Germany, I was assigned to the anti-armor company (Echo) in our battalion which was equipped with the M901 ITV (Improved TOW Vehicle). They were getting ready to transition to the Bradley, so the M901's were being prepared for turn in since the Bradley already had the twin TOW launcher, making the ITV's redundant. When that was complete, we were all dispersed to the line companies.
Ok, but what about blowing on Soviet mines from 1960-x?
i was a cav scout and spent the better part of 20 years operating the bradley. and i loved it. a very good weapon system. i wish i had one at the house
You know what that Bradley's turret needs, another turret. "Yo Dawg! I heard you like being conspicuous and looking like a tank".
put a turret on top of the main turret like the M3 Lee
Bruh just make the gun into a 30 mil mini gun
You know that is going to cost 2 more seats for the extra ammunition Sounds like an design flaw. Pentagon wars btw.
@Ben Keller yes I know that a lot Of afvs get upgrades. I make fun of the Pentagon wars movie. In my country when i was serving my draft We had M113 troop carriers. M113 mortar carrier M113 tow or Milan anti tank M113 armored commander vehicle M113 ambulance M113 armored recovery M113 signals communication unit
My brother was in the Army. He had the same name as the Bradley, but he was a gunner on a Black Hawk. He retired as a sergeant, so he didn't die, which is good.
Buck Dog 🐕
Heroes never die
@@adamhearts9195 and Goonie's never say, Die.
Your brother has M2 as name? 😆
Lucky
This video demonstrates why the United States Army is the greatest landforce in world history not only in quality but in quantity. God bless the men of the United States Army who have sacrificed all since 1775 and created a nation, the United States of America.
Damm bro that's crazy but I don't remember asking
Killing for profit since 1775
@@excrementgaming4405 i asked
@@hxhxhxx7886 dog that comment is from a year ago tf you doin?
Stop talking rubbish England was conquering the world hundreds of years before America was even found you must not of heard of Napoleon the duke of Wellington and the likes things were happening long before you was even here
I'm a simple man. I see Bradley, I like.
youve never baked in the back of it :(
GAAAAAAYYYYY.
Wasn't Kelsey Grammer in a based on a true story movie the Pentagon wars about the Bradley that it is a over budget waste of taxpayers money piece of junk vehicle you all need to go watch the movie
Howa about some Pizza
Your wierd
The M2 Bradley is just so flippin' flexible in the missions it can perform!
Bradley's and Stryker's have an identity crisis, but I love both the same.
I don't follow. The Bradley's are designed to travel with tanks carrying infantry and Strykers are designed to deal with insurgents utilizing speed and quietly move around.
@@tommygun5038 it's the Frankenstein of creations
@@tommygun5038 you really dont know Bradley's then. Bradley's have been around since mid 80s. Been in two wars. I was in both with them. In a task force with tanks and without an attachment of tanks. In a siege on Fallujah won. None destroyed in Fallujah. You probably dont know how a mech infantry company operates.
@@Mocha69A .......I didn't say they couldn't operate on their own in the right tactical environment. But they were designed originally to fight along side tanks against the Soviets. That's how they operated in the first gulf war depending on the threat environment. There are many different variants of Bradley's that perform different tasks on the battlefield. The original comment was they have an identity crisis. I was responding to that.
Самокат на колёсах бутылочка молотов и нет саней с даунами
For all of you arm chair generals the bradly has its place. It's a great tank has alot of good capabilities. I worked on them in the gulf war a bit. They are a fighting machine and you really dont want to be in front of the main gun. They deserve the credit they earned.
Delete your comment, please
@@UsudUsud-ly9qrWhy?
Former Bradley platoon leader here - Hearing that screaming VT-903, M242 and M240 going at it brings back a lot of memories... Can still remember the concussive blast from the main gun while observing shots topside. Even had to command detonate/missile abort once on a TOW missile that went straight up out of the tube... Seems the gyro got stuck or similar.
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National Guard brought one of these to my school and let us get inside it, these things are amazing
I worked FMC in San Jose in the 80's. I did all the machine work on the turrets. Watching this video takes me back. I'm retired now but it was a great place to work...
Thanks for your service. GF1
Damn this bradley has some beats
Squad v11 update looks great
i was a cav scout for 20 years in the army and i spent most of those years operating the bradley. and i damn sure miss my bradley. wish i could buy on and keep it at the house
I can still hear those sounds in my ears over 30 years later
Wow, I havnt been on a Bradley since 2000. Shout out to Ft. Bliss, Ft. Hood, and Air Defense Artillery.
Me too, oif 03- 04, taji iraq, 4th ID B 1/44 ADA 2nd PLT Ruffnecks
My dad used to operate in one of these. He was stationed at bliss and hood
I was sent to basic at Ft. Bliss and then to Germany, 3rd AD 2nd Bt. 3/5 ADA Reg.
People who don't drive Bradley's: "Haha Pentagon Wars lol Bradley sucks" People who drove bradley's: "Best thing since sliced bread."
my left ear then only my right ear enjoyed this.. thank you
I had a blast driving these in the BIG RED ONE! SCOUTS OUT
I was a TOW missile Tech on the Bradley. Best job I ever had
i came after watching Pentagon Wars, who with me ?
the f-35 is even worse
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@@microesfera100 you are even dumber.
@@microesfera100 Bradley has taken a bunch of Russian tanks, the f 35 cannot be detected.
@@MichaelKing-tp6le the problem is at what cost,
I was tC on a Bradley as a scout.. But never used one in Oraq or Afghanistan!! But as a Scout instructor at YTC i spent a lot of time on one!!
One of the best IFV in the World
What about now?
@@UsudUsud-ly9qrYeah, still is.
I feel Pride and honor when I think of the history of this vehicle. Simultaneously my stepdad worked on the Bradley ifv while I worked on original Teledyne Turbo Diesel for M60A3 and first of 120mm munitions for M60 and M1A1 transition from 105mm. We perfected Turbo Diesel for Israel Merkava that is still in use. Both FMC and Teledyne partnered with Israeli Defense Forces. My almost 4 decades with Teledyne/DoD and my stepdad losing his Life in accident on FMC remote firing range for Bradley Testing made being unseen sacrifice in Winning the Cold War. I'm retired now and he's long dead. USA forgot heroes of the Cold War, but we are everywhere and our family's Sacrifices were quite real. The Gulf War and later "push to Baghdad" had a Million invisible patriots behind our boys and girls in uniform. Cold War wasn't as "Cold" as history books tell it. It was a true Team Effort. I owe great debt to US Taxpayers who supported the effort during Ronald Reagan administration who put the "coup de grace" on the USSR. 30 years ago the effort was quite real. USA may be FAR from perfect but Thank God the USSR folded rather than start WW3. No parades necessary.
Randy Nixon Lol how dense you old people can be at times...
I was at Ft Belvoir in EOBC when my wife's roommates husband (ordance branch officer) was doing weapons testing on the first FMC Bradley. I was then off to the Fulda Gap for 20 months in support of a Cav troop. Now 50 years later I can tell you the Cold War is not over. Europe has not funded, equiped, organized, or trained to rebel a Russian invasion. Frankly, I don't think the Russians would invade because much of Europe is a basket case of ineptitude and corruption. All the US paratroopers and Cav units would be "speed bumps" just like we were in my day and there will be no NATO landing to drive them out if "the little green men" crossed the borders.
@Tom H. proxy wars yup, only the US and USSR didn't go 'hot'.
@@richardkroll2269 prove it. you still the we use paratroopers in any meaningful way. just recently the Army was thinking of dx'ing airborne units, since we don't do it. your and my day is over bud, shit's changed. The US spends more on R&D than russia spends on all military spending.
Randy Nixon all I heard was something about the pentagon wars from you
So proud to have worked on the nite site systems for BFV at Hughes Aircraft, glad you boys liked the BFV nite sites! I know our nite sites gave accuracy to engagement! Hope they send these beauties to help Ukraine!
Damm this comment doesn't aged well
Thats because you fought rookies
USA thank you a lot for support!!! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to USA!
I’ll need one of these to do my weekly grocery shopping soon.
Good old Bradley. Love it when it doesnt break.
Love it when its not getting destroyed while not even seeing an enemy.sadly, it happen rarely.
A fun vehicle to operate, if you take good care of it.
Bring back a lot of gunnery memories. TC of many Scout unit. Start out M113, M901, M248, than to Bradley
my nephew is down at Ft. Benning, learning to be a Bradley mechanic. doing rly well, acing his tests!
You should watch the pentagon wars, explains many flaws of the troop carrier
@@AJ___USA pentagon wars is mostly made up/exagerated
5:00 wow.
Some say, that round is still up there somewhere....
ON THE WAY!!! I miss that gunner seat... but not that jp8.
When I was in the 1-15 infantry in Germany from 82-84 the 11B s were the first to get them brand new.
m1 Abrams + m2 Bradley = best friends
This can be better than tanks sometimes. Isn't as vulnerable to Ambushes as can run fast. Or magnetic mine ganks. And can deal with infantry far better than MBT. While avoiding contact with MBT using radar and speed. Very good scout.
The Bradley is slower than the Abrams.
Saw the 1ID patch. Pretty sure that was my brigade on rotation in Germany 😂 We had tan Bradley's and had to by hand paint over it in OD green
Man that brings back the good old days at Grafenwöhr and Taszar with B Co 1/18 Infantry!
Graf fucking sucks
Lol i can't wait when m2a2 bradley comes to croatia.When it arives it will be modernized into m2a3 version.Im so excited.Hello from Croatia🇭🇷🇺🇸❤💪
My favorite IFV. Looking forward to see them in croatian army.
Love these machines
2:15 insane accurancy just like in the game.
What game? Would like to play
@@joseandres3500 squad im guessing
@@bro-cz8yh that or war thunder
@@joseandres3500 Arma 3 with RHS mod MUST HAVE!
You betcha we at Hughes Aircraft built the Night sites! So proud!
The last thing a number of Russians are about to see in Ukraine.
That comment aged like milk left on the sun in the Sahara desert
@@UsudUsud-ly9qr it hasnt though bradley has taken losses but has been killing bmp and t72 by the dozens hell one battle in adivka had 4 bradleys and 3 leopards destroyed where as russia lost 200 vehicles from t72 to bmp1,s even a few t55 where destroyed
@@colejones594 A Bradley also just killed a T-90M in Avdiivka yesterday using only its 25mm cannon and it's on video. TOW not required apparently.
5:01 top left corner you can see the round! Also, did it bounce off and fly straight into the air?!! Holy crap!
That looked like sparks to me
It may have gone through the tank then ricocheted out the back.
I was pleased to see comparition betwen this armored vehiclee, and the Russ Terminator unit.
The nostalgia of the Bradley being a trap with a c4 back in a regular squad deathmatch in bc2
Good hunting and supporting in Ukraine Bradley. Heavy US Tanks like Abrams would be also great to have. Germany will send also tanks soon.
Тогда Россия пришлет ракеты...
@@andreychuvakov5329 NATO will send special delivery parcel to Red Square
@@andreychuvakov5329 ты ошибку сделал в слове. Россия отправит пакеты забирать своих террористов
@@LuV2SPDup своих террористов мы сами чистим, нам этого говна не надо, мы не призываем к уничтожению укр. народа. А вот на ваших "вояк" пакеты уже кончаются
@@andreychuvakov5329 киселев, или сукабеева тебе сказала? Скоро рашин террористы узнают мощ западной военной техники.
The M2 Bradley is a beautiful military vehicle, I want it to remain operational for many more decades, and never need to be replaced from the useless omfv. And I want it upgraded from M2A3 to M2A4 Bradley!
Outstanding!
"A troop transport that can't carry troops, a reconnaissance vehicle that's too conspicuous to do reconnaissance, and a quasi-tank that has less armor than a snowblower, but has enough ammo to take out half of D.C." From the Pentagon War.
Lmao I just saw the movie yesterday 😂
A troop transport that can transport troops, a reconnaissance vehicle with advanced thermals, and an IFV” Fixed it for you
Los rusos estan haciendo papilla a estos juguetes....uno tras otro van ardiendo...
Bradley, the only infantry who can never be promoted
What a beautiful vehicle 👌💯
SLAVA UKRAINE🇺🇦
SLAVA Jojo Rabbit!
slava ⚰⚰⚰
Что хохляцкого аналога нашего слова слава не придумали 😀
This would so solve my road rage episodes.
Uh oh
Dudley pedestrians with RPG-7 😆
I Agree
Love the Bradley's
It's always nuts to see a larger caliber gun shoot without ANY barrel / turret movement.
And now- welcome to UKRAINE! God bless USA!
the sound of freedom is music to my ears
Least sneaky scout vehicle ever. Our troop got to play Opfor for the squadron, we were set up in an OP high up both observing and extending the range of our Troops radio transmission (can't for the life of me remember what it's specifically called), you could hear the Bradley's coming for a half hour before they were in visual range. They just echoed through the valley. An abrams could move quieter lol. Glad I was always in a truck.
Amphibious troop carrier/scout/tank.."The Pentagon War"
the tin can is now merrily burning in the eurasian steppes
Just like the BMP 😂
@@apisitprasan8766 How's the countroffensyiv going bro?
@elchudcampeador5642 better than the avdiivka counter offensive bro how are you?
@@apisitprasan8766 I can tell you about Mariinka rn, Avdiivka will take as much as Bakhmut I wager
Ah the memories 😊
feisty ! so much combined firepower and versatility in these. compact quick and maneuverable. these also have the career distinction of having taken out several heavy russian made main battle tanks in combat.
🤦♂️
The TOW missiles range is WAY shorter than a Russian T92 tank. Its almost 10 feet tall And it only goes 35 MPH.
@@Real11BangBang They eat russian tanks for breakfast
09:32 ahaha lol
Happens.
i remember the movie: Pentagon Wars
my left ear really enjoyed this
Americans in the past few years more often bringing their Bradley’s to Hungary for common military exercises, battlefield trainings, and specially to promote, what this beast capable to do! Maybe the next IFV at the HUDF!
I have good memories of our gunnar in Taszar back in 1997, midtour in Bosnia.
Brads and armor are cool and all, but I'm so glad I was airbone infantry. I would not want to spend half my life in the motor pool and I liked being on foot in control of my own destiny.
But then again, a 20 klick movement seems more comfortable in a Bradley than on foot lol.
"it like a pez dispenser he says " 😂😂😂
Just in time for V11
TOWs are awesome
5:01 “That one ricocheted”
Bradley’s destroyed more Iraqi armour in the Gulf than M1 Abrams did, with only 3 lost to enemy action.
Yet people still whine about it because it can't survive 20 155s daisy chained IEDs going off next to it. Go figure.
@@tommygun5038 The army chair general who watches the 10 minute clip of pentagon wars and writes off the bradley as a terrible vehicle
The USAF killed more Bradleys than the Iraqis did. Shitty Air Force pilots couldn’t tell the difference between Bradleys and BMPs.
The US started with the M3 Halftrack and now this fine machine. Troop carrier and a Tank Destroyer too. What else will the knockers produce?
Should have kept the trim vane platform, best sleep I ever had Hooah!
Their designs reminds me of the M4 Sherman. Maybe the Bradley is the Grandson of the M4 Sherman.
National Socialist Squad Fanboy.
1st SS Panzer Division_Leibstandarte You forget the TOW missiles
Or is the evolution of m4a4 Sherman
Is this because of the Squad update or is it just a coincidence? xD
very good sharing
Reconece units always the tip of the sph
With all the new technology, I'm waiting to see a system installed that when ever a shot is fired at a tank, the system will auto lock on the sound and determine the distance to automatically fire a high explosive round where the sound originated from.
Alot of loud sounds on the battle field.
Why did I remember "The Pentagon Wars (1998)"?
Интернетный Кот It's a troop carrier that can't carry any troops, it's a tank but it's also not. I also don't see the port holes.
@@farmdve ok old Brad's had firing ports new ones only have one on the rear door
@@farmdve ?
because "design by committee is like herpes", it will never go away.
That's amazing
My favourite vehicle, forever♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Insane accuracy, never thought Bmp type of vehicles could be so deadly.
The problem is, its always destroyed without even reaching a Frontline, so even to this day we have 0 videos of bradley destroying any vehicle.Theres a bunch of videos of bradley shooting to the horizon, but still not a single 100% proven video of bradley destroying smh
@@UsudUsud-ly9qr BS! There are plenty of Bradley kills! Just because they're not on video doesn't mean that it didn't happen. And those Bradleys being destroyed are due to IEDs placed by cowardly terrorists.
@@UsudUsud-ly9qrWow, it’s almost like engagements take place at long range. What a concept.
5:01 5:01 5:01 5:01 5:01 5:01 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪💪💪💪💪that's how *AMERICA WORKS*
So do I
@@anticommunist5899 ok
You mean with a German gun and British armor?
@@KingSpittusFactus oh ok
Выглядит очень красиво. И думаю по боевой мощи намного лучше чем БМП-2
Сергей Белин потому что наши заняты воровством денег. И обустройством личной жизни за границей. Поэтому технологий никаких у нас не будет. Кроме Жигулей.
А почему Так думаете?
Я думаю, что оба они хорошо работают со своей соответствующей доктриной, и оба являются огромными транспортными средствами. Привет из США.
У них на дисплеях вся боевая обстановка в реальном времени и это давно уже лет 25.
Разные ценовые категории.
I do miss my m2a3 one of the only few in for irwin that coild start on its own power
finally I know how to make the same quality armor
Wow arma 4 is looking very nice
Now just go get some T-72!
Really well made video.
You messing with my truck!!??
I'm getting like 40 kills with this in squad