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redis_mlc on March 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: On Killing Tanks

A Bradley is not a tank.

Also, the real story is that a squad of Apaches in the air was ambushed and destroyed early in the Iraq war from ground fire. Half crashed and half made it back, but with too much damage to fly again.

AtlasBarfed on March 23, 2020 [–]

The Bradley, as I've read, is a hallmark of the deficiencies of DOD committee planning. Well, until the F-35.

winterchil on March 23, 2020 | [–]

There's a dated but entertaining dramatization of this failure from the movie Pentagon Wars: https://youtu.be/aXQ2lO3ieBA.

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