Camera got ever heated and blurred the last 20sec. I apologize I'll be upgrading cameras soon! thanks for watching!

I filled every position on a Bradley. The reason they are not tanks is if they were, the crew would be “tankers”. Tankers are there to support their vehicle. If a tank is disabled a tanker is useless on the battlefield. Bradley crewmen are still infantry and the Bradley is there to support their mission. If the Bradley is disabled, the crew grab their rifles and gear and continue on. If you call a Bradley a “tank” you are calling the crew POG’s, which makes them grumpy.

just imagine how crazy it would be to see 2 bradleys go tow-to-tow

Rewatching this video because The Bradley now has a T 90 as one of its kills.

The Abrams is classified as a main battle tank. That implies the existence of a secondary tank.

The best defense is having weaponry with a greater maximum range than your enemy.

Looks like a tank

They've also got records for dunking T-90's with that bushmaster now.

Funniest part of 73 easting was that they were given orders to, and I quote, “not become decisively engaged with the enemy.” Then the tanks and Bradley’s kinda just happened upon the Iraqi armor and decided “we can’t become decisively engaged with the enemy if they are all dead.” And from there just cue “the only thing they fear is you” because it’s an accurate summation of what happens next.

As a former bradley gunner, this all assumes the bradley didnt break one of umpteen different things while it sat overnight. Literally the only vehicle I’ve ever seen that breaks from not being used.

So, if we were to compare vehicles to spiders, an M1 Abrams is a tarantula and the Bradley is a wolf spider. The Abrams is big, heavy and bites hard, and the Bradley is fast, can also bite hard and, if you manage to hit it, it releases a million little meanies with a vengeance.

I was a Bradley driver with 2nd ACR in Desert Storm and was in the 73-Easting battle. It is true that the Bradley is a true "gunslinger" as that battle was a bar-fight and everyone had sawed-off shotguns. All up and down the line the Bradley's were making close quarter kills on tanks. Toujours Pret.

Well, in War Thunder, you will find the Bradley in the Tanks category of the US research tree, so According to them, it's a Tank. And they probably have the classified documents to prove it.

The only thing worse than seeing two Bradleys coming at you on the battlefield, is seeing they are not concerned about you because the A10 has you in their sights

My favorite story from that tank battle was when one of the Bradleys unknowingly just parked itself mere feet from one of the T72's, then it proceeded to pump a few 25mm's into the engine deck.

The Bradley’s have once again proven to be one of the greatest military vehicles ever created. If you know what I’m referring to of course.

The one thing you forgot, the location of the TOW launcher and the sights being above turret level allows the TOW to be fired from defilade. I’d also add that the variants in use by the Army have kinematic lead. So, gunners just aim center mass at a moving target or when the Bradley is moving. The ballistic computer calculates the lead necessary and offsets the 25mm to compensate automatically for a first burst kill.

As a 19K and a 19D I know both of these vehicles well. Being in a M1 gives you a sense of invincibility. Being in a M3 makes you obsess to find the enemy first. Both have plenty of punch to get the job done especially with a well trained crew. Also as Fat Electrician already said, "It's still heavy enough to make you a crunchy."

Dude, I love your descriptions... "A missile hurtling toward you at Mach-Fuck..." and "We need to start saying tanks aren't Bradley's". I owe you many frosty beverages if we ever meet.

My dad had the honor of building the very first of these beasts. He worked RnD at FMC from the 70s to the early 90s. He built the first of a LOT of these vehicles. He was most proud of the Bradley and Abrams. He still tells me stories of how he'd have to cut the whole thing in half over and over again for the initial design, then had to rebuild everything for Operation Desert Storm so it'd work in the sand. My dad is the Einstein of engineering

I use to build the tow missle launch platform and the motors that rotate the turret. Loved that job. Seen a motor that took a 30mm round and kept operating. Made me feel so proud.

The Bradley, it's just a modern version of a tank destroyer that can also bring it's own grunts to the party.

I nearly spat out my coffee - “revokes birth certificates like a tank”. Incredible content as always. I always look forward to TFE Sundays!

My brother was a 19D and was with HHC 1/7 INF, Scout Platoon during the Gulf War. He was a driver of an M3A2 Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicle (CFV) at that point. First, he would be offended by anyone calling it a tank. Second, it proved to be completely reliable throughout their entire deployment from October 1990 - May 1991 (They had the improved 600HP engines). He said the drivers compartment was like a sauna on steroids so his crew kept him supplied with water so he didn't end up useless when the SHTF. He was not in 73 Easting, but was in several others, to include the Battle for Medina Ridge. He said that the action was too intense and fast to really be scared. The scariest things he recalls was an Apache fired on another Scout Platoon and took out a Bradley and an M113, and in the Battle of Phase Line Bullet a guy he knew in OSUT was killed driving his Bradley by an M1 Abrams that shot them through the rear, severely wounding the TC and killing the driver. There was a Time Magazine cover photo of one of the other 19D crew members bursting into tears on the evac chopper when he realized the body next to him was his friend. Friendly fire was his biggest fear. He also told about several incidents of enemy wire-guided missile attacks that were spotted by the puff of smoke that were thwarted by quickly engaging the smoke puff area with the 25mm. You didn't have to kill them to stop it, just get them to put their head down and stop the missile. So, no, the Bradley was not, and is not, a tank, but it is an extremely powerful and effective weapons platform in its own right. I believe the most deadly, powerful, and effective land warfare fighting force ever assembled was the armored cavalry regiment (ACR). The combination of OH-58 Kiowa's and Bradley's (Scouting), M1's (Heavy Armor), Cobra's and Apache's (air attack), Paladins and M270 MLRS (Artillery)...... This was the ultimate combined forces combat unit, imho. Tanks and Bradley's worked together to find and destroy the enemy. With the additional support of the Airforce with A-10's and AC-130's, as well as air superiority with F16's and F-15's, this was an unstoppable force. If you really want to know ho effective a Bradley is, all you have to do is look at the stupid decision to take Scouts out of Bradley's and put them in Humvees in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Scout's did not have the protection and firepower they had just 12 years earlier. This was a very costly mistake made by pencil pushing bureaucrat's in the pentagon. The people who paid that cost were the Soldiers in the Scout Platoons.

A friend use to sing "Riding around the Bradley, with a pocket full of shells" and i could never unhear that when the song comes on.

You know you've made it when you have Scheels sponsoring you. That place is amazing.

The Bradley will always have a place in my heart. One of the least comfortable places to sleep and a pain in the ass to lay out for Lt and a million other not great things about it, but overall fond memories.

Besides the mechanical ratings of the vehicle, I think it's a big mistake to not count the dismount team as part of the Bradley's advantage. Tanks are very vulnerable to infantry, if they don't have infantry of their own.

I grew up in a town of three thousand in South Mississippi and the National Guard unit there is a Bradley Unit. In 94 I was a freshman in high school, the Guard brought their Bradley over and asked for one student to drive it and I got picked to drive the Bradley and it's fast!

As a 11B in a mech unit in 1st cav. There is a reason why they call Bradley's "hunter, killers". They hunt and destory the killers of the battlefield.

I was 19 Delta from 1986 to 1990. Trained on the M3 Bradley in Fort Knox in 1986 as an 18 year old went to the “high speed” 1st AD in Germany and worked as driver/crewman on M113s. In 1988 I went to Fort Hood 1st Cav division and I was back on the Bradley. Was great to drive ,and as a 21 year old I had a blast! for two years.

As a former 11M (Old MOS for Mechanized Infantry) I whole heartedly agree with The Chubby Electron Pusher, the Bradley is bad ass. It has a bad reputation because of the book and movie "The Pentagon Wars" but when we deployed for Desert Storm it proved how bad ass it was. I and other 11M's I know love the Brad.

When the M113 got tired of being made fun of and it hit the gym for a few years, the Bradley was what became of that transformation.

It is a light tank ... that dips in to the Anti-tank role, and the Troop carrier role.

Due to new upgrades in technology, Raytheon developed a wireless missile that the Bradley can now use and does not require certain conditions when firing through smoke/fires, near electrical lines, or over water.

Thank you for mentioning 73 Easting, one of the most underrated, forgotten battles of all time. Guess you had to be there....

The wire on the TOW is legit the scariest non-intentional unalivement potential in the armory. Lost a good pair of boots and almost half my pinkie toes to that thing.

Found your channel a while back and there’s been nothing but consistently good content. Thank you for entertaining us and keep up the jokes.

Just for your information. The model with the TOW missile is only on the CVF, or Cavalry Fighting Vehicle. I was indeed a CAV Scout and was attached to 1-7 CAV. We used them. Never gave us TOW missiles, because we were Scouts, but that is a story for another day.

I drove a Bradley while stationed at Ft. Hood from 05 to 08, and I loved just about every minute of it. Still miss it to this day.

I don't know what's more impressive, the Bradley itself or the joystick jockey who is able to accurately steer a mach 1 missile on a line! That can't be easy, can it?

the bradley is so underrated, it deserves more respect and it will get it one way or the other, and no one would like the other

As a previous Bradley gunner during Desert Shield/Storm, I can say my two Bradley’s in my 4 year enlistment NEVER had a problem and worked flawlessly during the war! Bradley’s are bad a$$

The technical classification is an Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) which is, for all intents and purposes, a light tank that can transport troops. It doesn’t really matter that it can get one shot by a tank when it’s more maneuverable and is effectively immune to small arms fire which makes sense since it’s primary job is to drop troops off in a combat zone and then stick around to provide heavy fire support.

Shooting a TOW is one of the greatest feelings ever. Also having to keep your tracking gates on your target constantly (for as long as 26 seconds) makes it feel like an eternity.

Hilarious as expected. Kinda want to see a batch review of over the shoulder missile launcher systems (Javelin, AT4, MANPADS, etc.).

I was a scout platoon leader in DESERT STORM and loved my Bradley! 1/A/4-7CAV was probably the most lethal organization I ever served with. Lots of old fashioned reliable firepower with those M3' and M3A1's! Thanks for the video!

I was an Infantryman in the 1st Cavalry Division, and when we were training tank vs Bradley, it was either as close to even as it possibly could be, or us Grunts would come out on top by way of having better tactics, including range, and a few Grunts out there throwing tank killing Javelins into the mix.

Absolutely Hilarious as always...TFE always shines through with his Miltary Humor and well-prepared presentations. This is one of the best Military Enthusiast Channels on KZfaq, and I dare anyone to "float around and find out" why.

“Tanks aren’t Bradleys” is just plain perfect!

You missed an important fact. The _original_ Bradleys had firing ports for the grunts in the back. Though not for their M-16's. These were for modified grease-guns that locked, barrel-first, into a pivoting gimbal. As for aiming, I could be miss-remembering, but I think they just had a periscope type deal and you tried to walk the bullets in.

My brother was killed in a Bradley. He was the S.A.W Gunner 1st out the back door. They were out hunting I.E.D's unfortunately the door landed on the trigger of a approximately 500 lbs bomb. He and 2 others were killed and it threw the back door half a block backward and landing on a Humvee paralyzing a guy in it as well.

The Bradley really TOWs the line when it comes to combined armor-infantry combat.

Fun fact, the TOW doesn’t even hit the tank since it’s a top down attack missile.

There's a Bradley unit in my home town of Poplarville. When we were kids they'd bring one over to the school on career day and I actually got to drive one once, it was awesome! They looked smaller in 95'

The 73 Easting battle story is on of my favorites. The two Ghost troop Bradleys were trying to link up with Eagle Troop when they walked right in to the 8 tank assembly area and began missile drills, killing tanks like Lisa in Team America, pausing to ask for Garry.

This brings back memories of playing the "Desert Combat" mod for Battlefield 1942 in LAN games and me using the Bradley to to straight up own the battlefield. I even had a few helicopter kills.

Please do one on the challenger 1 or 2 MBT dying to hear what you got to say about the world record tank kill 👌🏻❤️

This is like the squids telling Marines: “it’s not a boat. It’s a ship!” 😢

You need to do a review on the Polish ship that took on the Bismarck during WWII. The Piorun. I know it’s not American AF. But those Poles legit went toe to toe with the Bismarck despite being a nation in exile. That and the story is pretty baller.

Bradley = CQB Tank Paladin = Sniper Tank

“Revokes birth certificates like a tank” 😂😂 love it

I drove it in OIF 1 and gunned it in OIF 3. Love the vehicle. It got us back safe every night. No EFPs though.

I've always thought of the Bradley as an Ultra-Light tank. Or the worlds most American APC. (You know, because it's so fighty an Ork would approve... once you paint it red.)

I would love to see a video on Robert Olds, the only WW2 pilot to get an air to air kill while gliding, he forgot to switch to inboard fuel when he detached his droptanks only realizing afterwards

The reason the Bradley can’t take a hit from the main gun round of a tank or any other large caliber weapon is because it wasn’t designed to IFV’s are only designed to drop off their infantry of and stick around to provide fire support as opposed to an APC or armored personnel carrier which drops off their infantry then runs away

Proud as hell… I worked for the company that made many of the bearings in that machine

I spent many years on the Bradley, thank you!!! Loved the comment " Tanks aren't Bradleys " well done!!!

It’s still heavy enough to make you a crunchy

I knew bradleys were capable of knocking out tanks after hearing stories of what my dad went through during Desert Storm. I had no idea how many tanks they had actually knocked out though.

Loved the Bradley when I worked on the turret. And the couple variants it had for scouts and artillery were pretty cool too.

I'm Danish and what you yanks might refer to as a 'pencil neck' But by golly I enjoy these vids, sir :) Keep up the good work and skål(cheers) Maybe, you could do a episode about 'Operation Hooligan Bashing' when a Danish FN recon unit of a few Leopard2 tanks of the Jydske Dragon Regiment were ambushed by the Bosnian Serb Šekovići brigade, and, more or less by accident, destroyed every single attacker, plus a ammo depot, without any loses

We don't engage head on with tanks. At least not in doctrine. But the ERA designed for it does help a lot with taking hits from most rounds. Also this video left out a few things, like it also fires HE rounds for things like unarmored vehicles, helicopters that were dumb enough to get close, and the 7.62 M240C for troops in the open. And for even more defense against enemy tanks, if it's not in wide open desert of course, the dismounts have things like the M136 AT-4 and between the 4 in the platoon carrying the three squads (same MTOE as light, just add the brads) there will be a couple of Javelins to rain down some unhealthcare.

Thank you for uploading, your a life saver. You make the depression go away

Never did i think i would watch this video going: "god, i love armor vehicles." TO NOW, having basic knowledge of the driver position and expected to be the gunner of my Squads Bradley. What a change in my life.

It's great when it's not in a call of duty campaign

I've had "The Pentagon Wars" on my HBO watchlist for a bit, but haven't seen it yet. It's a comedy film about all of the crazy decisions made to turn what was supposed to be a transport into a tank in all but name. You've inspired me to go watch it now. Great video!

Actually, a ukrainian operator took down a t-90. Fun fact - he knew where soft spots are, ‘cause he played “world of tanks”.

Brought back memories for me. Former 11M. Desert Storm vet. Thanks for the video!

Excellent as always.

I love the Bradley. One pf my favs. Also... Dont watch "The Bradley Wars" if you want an insight on the development. Because the book its based on was madewriten by a guy who was more concened about making the bradley look bad, than making it both safe and practical. Lazerpig did a vid on it, worth a watch

Fun fact, I got to ride one into the local mall when I was 5, my dad helped designed the turret drive system and they were putting it on display at the mall around the corner from where he was working as the time...good times

this is one of my favorite short clips. thanks.

Bro if I had a dollar for every time I've had to tell somebody the Bradly isn't a tank I could pay for college tuition already. Then again, as you said, if it looks like a tank, walks like a tank, and parties like a tank, it could be a tank.

I always assumed that they only had the two missiles. Wikipedia claims they have 12 more inside the not-a-tank. That's a lot of damage (potential).

I've been a Bradley gunner for almost 4 years first at Fort Hood and now at Fort Stewart I love this video

Ok, This episode made me REALLY love watching your show. My dad told me to check you out, I've watched a couple and have thoroughly enjoyed it so far, but this one was the cherry on top for me. I was a 94A for 12 years, which was basically called a 'missile guy' from the Bradley crews and the heavy weapon guys in the light infantry world, as my job was to make sure your tow system as a whole went ''mach fuck' and 'revoked birth certificates' as intended :) I loved working with the Bradley crews, and def enjoyed hearing the different opinions of the track in general, but overall I always felt it was a solid piece of equipment or we would have been trying to replace it a lot sooner then we have been. Granted the Abram is the powerhouse on the battlefield as far as the world is concerned, but I think for that reason the bradley gets to quietly be an assassin and just knock targets out without other countries putting together wtf is going on. My favorite moment I got to see a TOW missile used was in iraq in 2007. A sniper shot one of our convey dismounts(was one of the engineer pukes checking something on the buffalo truck they were in) and the escort we had that day happened to be 4 bradleys from 4th ID with our 4 guntrucks we were riding in. All you hear over the radio is a call to approve use of the tow, about 10 seconds you hear the confirmation, and then you hear the pop of the launcher and look out the right to see a distant 'poof'(probably about 500-600 meters) of a tow missile obliterating the firing position of said sniper, and of course in typical fashion, a second delay to hear the 'boom' and feel the small rumble.

Damn outstanding yet again, thanks. I learn more and more from your channel every time I watch.

In the words of its enemies, "It's not a tank destroyer, That implies a fair fight, no It's a tank assassin, a killer that will murder without compassion or guilt, It doesn't fight you It just kills you."

I cannot believe you didn't bring up the movie, The Pentagon Wars. Basically, describes how greatest "Not A Tank" was built and am pretty sure is the same road map that help "design" the V-22 Osprey, F-35, and most likely the POS KC-46....or any other new weapon system that comes out.

Just wait until the Fat Electrician hears about the new 50mm cannon they are developing for the new Bradley NOT A TANK Infantry fighting vehicles.

Sleeping in the back of one waiting to get to a drop off point seemed impossible at first. About a month later that engine became a lullaby.

Awesome video. I saw the missile toe/ tow missile joke coming, and it was still great. Any chance you'd do historical figures like sorta what you did with Lucky Flucky? I'd love to see a video on John Paul Jones. Who does not get enough credit for being an absolute menace.

Nice footage from that TV show greatest tank battles. Loved that show growing up!

1st 249th INF TOW ORANG, I got to do a TOW live fire at Yakima Firing Center in 83', our unit had our first-generation TOWs mounted on M151A2 Jeeps, we were kind of the Kamikazes of our time. Back then the TOW only had a 2000m range and most Soviet tanks of that time had a 3000m range.

I love the production of these videos! You should also go to Oshkosh Airventure. There most likely be B1s B2s and B52s there considering the theme is the Vietnam war.

I absolutely love this video. Would like to see your take on the French AMX 10RC. Which is their everything fighting scout vehicle as it has a 105mm main gun. Which is also being shipped to Ukraine.

Here is the beat part. The M2/M3 Bradley came about from a need to take an M113 and make it essentially equal to a light tank so as to compete with the BMP-1

One major benefit it has over tanks is speed. It's like trying to shoot a running squirrel through a scope. It's also why they got so many kills in storm. It was a blitz, and they got there first, even when they weren't sure where there was.

Originally the Bradley was going to hold 12 soldiers and only had a machine gun on top. Then people kept getting ideas for how to easily upgrade it to do other things besides JUST transport soldiers. That's why it now only holds 6 soldiers but is better at killing tanks than dedicated tank killers.