Posted on 01/20/2024 5:19:44 PM PST by VAFreedom
A new viral video shows the crew of a Russian T-90M Breakthrough tank getting a first-hand lesson in the devastating firepower of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle’s Bushmaster M242 25mm automatic cannon. The War Zone reached out to highly-experienced armor experts to explain exactly what we are seeing in the intense combat footage and how the Bradley was able to take on Russia's most capable frontline tank.
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I wonder how M1 Abrams would stand up?
**If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
Reports say that the Bradleys are very effective, even more than the big tanks
“ If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.”
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Fo’ sure!
No such thing as a fair fight.
I reviewed the footage. It looks like the tank got too close to the Bradley. The tank has an armor and gun size advantage. But at close range the Bradley’s 25mm auto cannon give it a huge rate of fire advantage. Close in that cannon is going to shred anything but frontal armor.
During the Battle of the Bulge in WWII, an U.S. M8 armored car killed a German Panzer VI Tiger tank by hiding, let the tank pass, then driving like hell to put 37mm rounds in the Tiger’s rear before they could slew the 88mm in the turret around to obliterate the paper thin armor on the M8.
How the heck does a Bradley flank a T-90? Where was the supporting infantry?
Agreed. If the tank is buttoned up, the 25mm rounds may tear up the vision blocks so the driver cannot see to drive. And he isn't going to stick his head out to see. Same is true for the commander's vision blocks. And he isn't likely to stick his head out to see either. The gunner's optics can also be wrecked by a single lucky hit, and those rounds can also badly damage the track links. Blind the beast and immobilize it and it is nearly helpless. Then back up until you can fire a TOW2B at it and you have a very dead tank.
I guess the joke in on the “Pentagon Wars”
There was none.
There was another Bradley nearby, but only one is seen in action in the video. Another guy has a video about this on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tklWv9_D6-Y&t=330s
Combined arms are for sissies.
I don't know if that was a one-off trick to guarantee funding or a standard capability - but that blew everyone's socks off. So cool to see it still kicking ass 40 years later.
Very much so, and has been since the Battle of 73 Easting.
“Where was the supporting infantry?”
‘Supporting infantry’ has never been a Soviet/Russian tactic.
Bradleys have taken out more tanks than Abrams.
That particular Bradley does not have TOW mounts
The video I saw was not very clear. If they lack TOW launchers , then they need some serious suprise to be able to cripple the tank.
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