Holy crap, what is the US going to do with these?

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Phunktion

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Those are common use infantry support tanks.. I'm sure they will be used with the ground troops in Afghan but that's obvious.. they're definitely not going to the scrapper those tanks look factory fresh..
 
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Yzzim

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Holy Sh#t!!!
The first picture has more tanks than the whole Taliban army
Picture #2, OMG! :Q:Q
 
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burnedout

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Those are pictures of M2 BFVs. And they aren't even the newer versions.

They are either going to the Texas Army National Guard, or these are old pictures.

I know from looking at the racks on the turret and the side skirts. The side skirts aren't removable. The BFVs in the picture are at least 12 years old.

 
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<< I know from looking at the racks on the turret and the side skirts. The side skirts aren't removable. >>


Racks? Skirts? Removable?

I demand pics
 
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Further update.......................

All the pictures were made from some office in Copperas Cove.

Those are old Bradleys.
 
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Seriously though, why is the gun so small? Usually when you see a tank, or whatever these are, they've got huge guns. This one is about 1/4 the size (if that) of the "normal" ones.

25mm. Three rates of fire. Single, 100 rounds per minute, 200 rounds per minute. M2 Bradleys are not tanks. They are Infantry Fighting Vehicles. Furthermore, the launcher on the side fires a TOW missile out to 3700 meters.

If the pictures were recent, the Bradleys on the train were probably going to the depot to be rebuilt. Very few, if any, active units use Bradleys which are so old anymore.

 
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These look like old bradley rolling targets to me.

old pix eitherway.
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<< Seriously though, why is the gun so small? Usually when you see a tank, or whatever these are, they've got huge guns. This one is about 1/4 the size (if that) of the "normal" ones. >>



The 25mm chain gun also fires ammo from at the flick of a switch. There is the discarding Sabot with a DU penetrator and an explosive round. Man, rail movements bring back memories. I agree they are probably heading back to depot for upgrades and improvements.:cool:

Bradley's float, at least theoretically, Tanks do not float, by design. My unit M1's, in Germany made many rail movements to Hohenfels, Grafenwohr, WildFlicken. They made for great sleeptime on the way back to garrison. I was there when the Bradley first got deployed. The infantry took its sweet time adjusting to it. It was funny to watch the grunts come stumbling out after a rough crosscountry ride. It was like when you spin around with your head on the baseball bat and then try to run a baseline. Another time an entire platoon of them turned the backends toward the enemy and dropped the ramps. That was hilarious.:D
 
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Can we get some confirmation that these pictrues are recent? ALso, some confirmation about where they are headed?
 
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Can we get some confirmation that these pictrues are recent? ALso, some confirmation about where they are headed?

FT Hood? to or from? The Army is contracted with Hughes or Fairchild or General Dynamics to build a new vehicle, that lighter than the M1 and better armored than the Bradley. Desert Storm took too long to get the M1's over there. I think a C5A can only haul two M1's at a time. A four vehicle platoon needs to fit in one aircraft. Those Bradleys may get put on the market to allies. Some other poster got all excited when he saw some C130's flying into FT Bragg. That happens about 100 times a day under normal conditions.
 
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