That’s it! I’m Abrams’ and Bradley qualified now! (I’m totally not)

We need Leopard 2 Switchology

I love the big grey floaty things shirt. I need one for vacation.

i personally would like to see you guess your way around a challenger 2

This video and its information finally came in handy for me, as while on deployment the Bradley guys who were attached to us let me get my hands on one of them and it basically allowed me to go from "some Redleg there to learn about the Bradley" to "some Redleg who knows enough about the Bradely that he basically becomes an assistant instructor"

Eagerly awaiting the Leo2A5 vid for this

So cool, my dad was a Bradley TC in Korea during the late 80's and later was an instructor at Fort Irwin. He too mentioned the horrors of manually clearing the 25mm, and now I see what he meant lol He had a pretty cool story about a war game they did in Korea: His platoon was up on a hill and were being assaulted by a particularly gung-ho Sargeant, well because of the elevation difference they struggled to get depression to target the advancing infantry, so my dad had them button up and radioed a unit of PIVAD 20mm Vulcan SPAAGs on another ridge and asked them if they could fire indirect on his position. (The officer running the simulation said this was allowed) So as the Sargeant and his unit got up on his Bradleys they were "killed" by a hail of theoretical 20mm HE shells, which he informed the Sargeant of after he triumphantly knocked on the door of the Bradley to claim victory. My dad said he was pretty fucking pissed to hear about that little trick lol. The Bradley gets a lot of shit about its development, but I've never heard a truly damning complaint about the vehicle from my father.

Speaking of Bradley. Can you do a video on the movie "Pentagon wars" eg how much of it is true etc.

Do the russian/soviet tanks next, i would love to know the difference in doctrine and ergonomics BMP-2 or the T-72,

Hey Chieftain, have you considered doing a video of the development history of the Bradley? It would be very interesting to hear your perspectives on it.

Nice! Again an offer: If you ever want to do a "Marder switchology" video...I could help with that. :-)

I spent 2 weeks on one of these in Hohenfels in 94 when they took all the drivers from our M1’s in our company and turned us into infantry. It was a horrible machine to ride in. I never missed the drivers hole so much as I did when I spent that time in a Bradley. Cco 3/77 Armor 1st AD 1992-1995 Mannheim Germany “OLD IRONSIDES”

Another interesting and entertaining vid, thanks Chieftain. We your humble audience appreciate your sterling efforts!

A video about the CV90 would be great.

*start of the video* I really have to chuckel because my eyes witness a true Chieftain in his natural environment ^^ great stuff keep it up!

I shared this video with a old friend of mine that was a Bradley gunner in the early 00's. His name is also Bradley. It was quite fitting.

Re: TOW. The TOW 2B Aero variants are the wireless variants and have extended the Missile range to 4500m. No modification to vehicle or fire control is required; the vehicle does not know it is firing a wireless missile. They can be fired from any of the Bradley variants, though there are no ODS left in service (the ODS-SA, A3, and A4 all share the same sight and fire control; the SA just lacks the commander’s Independent viewer).

I used to play Steel Beasts back in the early 2000's. Thinking about getting into it again. Great sim.

*Chieftain plays games* This is something i could get behind. Thanks you again Chieftain for all of the great content!

These Switchology videos were really interesting. Thanks for those Would love more videos like this.

Thanks Nick... this brought back memories... I gunned the M2A1 and M2A2 before reclassing into the MP Corps

Darn KZfaq compression makes the reticule rather hard to see. But this is another great video. Super cool to hear it all explained by someone who used the real thing. Thank you for both of these videos, first rate stuff.

So completely familiar! Like a walk down memory lane....I have to say that I don't miss the turret much at all.

I miss the Gunners position, was on the initial and A1, Best job I ever had! Courage And Faith, Straight and Stalwart, and ALLONS Sir!

These are great videos sir. I'm really enjoying them.

Ahh. My old stomping grounds. I was a turret mech for this and the A1 back in the day. Hey Nick, not to nitpick I promise - I love your work. 13:00 Setting the launcher from 'stowed' or 'lowered' was 'raising' or 'lowering' the launcher. Kept the crew from getting confused. Also, raising or lowering it manually took a good five or so minutes if you used a 'speed bar' and it was done from outside the vehicle and behind the launcher. As Nick says, not something you wanted to be doing under fire. That said, it's been longer for me than the Chieftan. I got out mid '94

I’m a simple man. I see a new video from The Chieftain, I stop what I’m doing and watch it.

Great series of videos! I think a T72 or similar would be a great counterpoint before moving onto the Leopard 2 and other NATO standard vehicles. Keep up the good work!

Crazy looking at old Bradleys. I was on a M2A3 when I was in and its cool to see all the little changes they made.

On the M3ODS the bit is one it; the Blue Force Tracker in mounted on the Coax Door, I was on the Scout Brad for 3 years before retirement.

I absolutely love these videos, thank you sir. Cheers

Highly recommend the book!

Ah, the PLGR (precision lightweight GPS receiver) which you mentioned as 'plugger' early on. I got to play with one during my COMSEC repair school, during which I never got to see anything that was actually secure.

Great video. Would love to see one on the CV9030, as it is probably the one closest to the Bradley in design, and see how much is different in the finnish versus norwegian version that I have some experience with.

Oh sweet nostalgia. I remember turning in our M2A2s for M2A2ODS in Germany. We deployed them to Kosovo a few months later.

Amazing shirt, sir! Never saw a Hawaiian shirt with USS Missouri on it, but I guess it does make sense.

Well, I would love to see the cv9040 or the STRV122. I want to see how good our tanks here in Sweden are. But a great video. Seems to be an awesome job to work with tanks.

Very cozy.

Good work 👍

As a gunner on a YPR 765 ,and shooting a 25 mm oerlikon in the dutch army in the late 80's, we had the night vision, but all other functions were pretty much "ww2 gunnery". that's why we were trained to have 3 shots at a moving target , correcting with for example "2 forward , 1 up" when we missed, meaning; aim 2 vehicle lengths further in front and 1 vehicle height above when correcting our aim. If after 3 shots at a moving target we still had no hit, we would seek another target. If we had a hit, we fired 2 more kill rounds. Auto 3 or 10 rounds were available but we were discouraged to use them unless in situations like for example a emerging Hind attack helicopter or massive oppositional attack. This to save ammo.

My father is very happy with the M110 kit and got all nostalgic while looking at it. "Corporal Lowhorn sat right here..." You said you yourself had the M107 kit (which my father has nothing but disdain for because of its inaccuracy), which has the same vehicle base. Dad said every single last time they fired Charge 5 White Bag (low charges go 1-7 in Green Bag and mid charges go 1-5 in White), the aluminum armor plates covering the engine and transmission (the raised plate at the front of the glacis and the semi-cylinder just behind it) would fly off of the machine. They never figured out how to keep the things on under the concussion of that blast. Apparently, 75 yards BEHIND the gun, the same charge would make clam shell mess kits pop open. This happened despite the gun tube itself being the same size as previous guns, the same height above the ground, using the same charges as the previous M55 towed 8-inch guns the 1st-of-the-75th had been using before. No one in the army ever figured it out while he was in, but perhaps they fixed it later with the longer tube and muzzle brake. One of my favorite stories of my father's though, is about the chief sergeant of the unit (can't remember his actual rank), named Holland but known to the men as "Smoothbore" - because he wore dentures and when he went into the mess room for breakfast he would make a giant mound of everything on offer, smother it with gravy, then sit down, take his teeth out, put his mouth on the edge of the plate and just shovel it in. One day, they went out for gunnery practice and found that the cloth targets they were supposed to shoot at had all been destroyed. Apparently the battery that was there before them had hit absolutely nothing, and in an attempt to hit "something" before they left the range, they set a fuze to blow up ahead of all the targets, rather than behind them. So when my then-lieutenant father arrived all that was there on the range was a bunch of four inch posts that cloth was supposed to be nailed to 1,000 meters away. Everyone gave some choice comments about the inconsideracy of the preceding unit, and then the commanding officer spoke up "Why aren't you shooting?". Sergeant Holland replied, "Wut would yoo lahk me to shoot at, suh?" "One of those posts, sergeant." "Which wun, suh?" He gestured at one of them and said "That one." Smoothbore climbed up on the vehicle, shooing people out of the way as he went and personally adjusted the lay of the gun. Then he climbed down and called "Faaah". The private pulled the lanyard and the 4-inch post the commanding officer had gestured towards, one kilometer away, broke off at half-height. Smoothbore turned around and said "Which wun NAO, suh??"

Love it keep them coming plz

another nice video. thank you.

Love the vids

#1 use for the so-called 'Aircraft Sight' from the TC's seat... Walking your gunner onto identifying the target during manual/degraded mode gunnery. You get to play Hold/Cold with him over the com. Because he's not going to spot a damn thing with the prism.

When you mentioned the travel lock, we were looking at a SINCGARS radio system! I have seen the inside of those, but it was almost 20 years ago now. I don't remember much.

Would love to see a video on the Warrior or Chally! :D

Speaking of "What's the beer bottle?"... What's the everything else? Shelf tour! Also, yay, more RIA videos!

This is gonna make me a better Bradley player in War Thunder

since you've done some modern american vehicles, i'd love to see you take on the patton

Awesome video, so tell us Chieftain. What would the batch have been if you could choose your own brew? Looking forward to your tank fest releases, really enjoyed the interview with military history visualized. Bernard? I'm shocking with names lol.

Had a Bradley commander who had seen NATO missions in Serbia (I think) in my National Guard unit in Minnesota. He seemed to indicate that loading/ unloading the main gun was a pain in the ass.

would love to see T-72 switchology

I would love to see a review of the Leo2. I know its not gonna happen but it would be amazing to se the difference between the M1, and the Leo2, especialy the Leo2E (Spanish Bias)

Best video game ever.

Most of the controls are very similar to the Bionix that I used to operate in the Singapore Army. A few differences, the position of the VC and gunner is flipped, gunner on the right, VC on the left. Don't have a guard around our Bushmaster or COAX.

Woot! More cool real stuff :)

Speaking of the Bradley, I was at Ft Stewart yesterday had one turn around by my truck.

I would love to hear info about the Warhammer Bradley variant and how the use of the Javelin instead of TOW missiles changes vehicle operations.

The Palidans walk through would be nice

Would love to see one on the CV9030-FI, I served as a commander on one of those for a year. It has been 11 years since I've been in the turret of one of those, so I doubt there's much I can help you with but it would be nostalgic to see a video on it. :)

I wish they'd do a video on the T-10 heavy tank

wait, i can still get a copy of can openers? sick! i know what im burning that built up annual leave on when it comes in!

I happen to like the M2A2 FCS, over the CV-90, because of the no lead adjustment, I don’t really engage any PC over 2000m, any more I’ll use a TOW 2, but I find the CV90 lead adjustment on all variants is very temperamental, unlike the Brad where I can do it myself. And overall, M2A2/M3A2 are arguably my PC’s of Choice on Steel Beasts, as much as I’m British and love the Warrior (ODS), id rather go to war in a Bradley. Until the Warrior gets its 40mm upgrade, then we’ll see how we go.

I'd love to see you cover the T72. It was quite confusing for me. As you know, some of the vehicles have no interior, but the T72 does and I'm lost in there.

it seems WOT got a little less arcadey, maybe time to give it a go again. Thanks for taking your time to do these chieftain, love the detailed explanation!

Would you ever be willing to do a video playing a full game of Steel Beasts?

Pls do one on the BMP series as well pls!

This reminds me of MOPP 4 at high noon in NTC's sandbox

Makes my old M113A1 LRV (2 CAV - 4/19 PWLH 1977-1984) look rather primitive 😎

Interesting! I'd like to see a T-90M....

do centurion next! (it's called Sho't Kal in the game)

The biggest gun I fired was a Mark 19 and that only at SOI, If they have an LAV in that game, I've never seen the inside of one. Maybe a view of the AMTRAC upgun turret?

Any chance for a T-72?

Oh the memories of Bradley gunnery during a time of 6 months I had been though changing from M2 BFV, M2a1 BFV, M2a2 BFV then dumped into UCOF for a M2a2 ODS BFV with out knowing of the laser rangefinder 😒 this was on top of having my MOS changed due to some jack@## typing up my promotion orders incorrect 😣 being I was 11B20C2 to WTF I'm a 11M20C2 now and being PCS to a mech infantry unit 😠.

YES!

This is making me really think

Well it makes sense, net is full of young and adult people, which honestly are starving for simulator stuff. I would gladly watch a squad mission with you in SB.

The T72M1 I have been using in the simulator for a while. It would be nice to show everyone how to gun with a autoloader.

Talking about the Bradley, could you do a video on the veracity of the movie "Pentagon wars"? I know many of us have been left wondering what's the actual story behind this thing

Dose steel beasts stimulate the tape?

Do the Chieftain tank simulation video

I'd like to see the buttons on a Oscillating Turret, don't really mind that much which one.

CV90 would be awesome. As a norwegian i am biased to the 30mm version. But to bad they do not have the BILL atgm system on them. while not fielded normaly, they are developed and can be fitted in a state of war

Ha ~ this would be great introductory training.

Прикольная букашка, интересно очень. Спасибо такого на Yt не хватает)

Maybe a collab with Ian at Rock Island???? On the TOW sim; I've seen video from Syria where TOW copies could be seen appearing to weave erratically as the tracked to the target. Do real TOWs fly that way, or do ours fly arrow-straight?

Wow. Talk about coincidences. I just went back on Thursday and re-watched my copy of The Pentagon Wars, regarding the development of the Bradley. I had forgot what a nightmare the development of that thing was.

Casual Friday...

that fucking shirt is amazing. the leopard would be awesome.

YESSS

I believe the gunner controls are called "Cadillacs" because Cadillac Gage built many of them going back to the 50s.

I can take you over the TC’s and Gunners positions for Challenger 2, but disclaimer IM NOT A TANKER OR EX TANKER. But I’ve gathered a lot of Knowledge on the tank through Steel Beasts and research. If you don’t believe me ask Matsimus or SteelBeastsCavalry, they’ll back me up😂

Does the game have the newer Bradley in it if so can u do a short vid on it

Funny how even on a sim, the ODS thermals look better than they did on my ODS in 08-09.

Pretty cool, but how about doing a vid while the vehicle is in motion since you're stationary with moving targets? I'm sure that would be a much more in depth discussion and require a ton more gunnery calculations

Another one would be the S-tank, the Strv. 103B.

Not sure if it’s KZfaq’s compression, or maybe steal beasts as a game, but god that red IR sight looks so hard to see anything with. Is there any particular reason they went with red over the traditional green or white?

a marder Ifv video would be very nice

Are you planning on doing other vehicles present in the simulator?