Synopses & Reviews
If ever there were an armored fighting vehicle that today's soldier could love, it would be the Bradley: of 2,200 that muscled through Operation Desert Storm, only three were disabled.
In a full-scale, fully detailed look at the M2/M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle System, Michael Green, veteran writer on military machines and tour guide at a tank museum, and co-author James D. Brown conduct readers through the nuts and bolts, production history, and wartime work of the stalwart Bradley.
Made to carry infantry squads safely to critical points on the battlefield and to perform cavalry scout missions, the Bradley is uniquely able to close in on and destroy enemy forces in support of mounted and dismounted infantry and cavalry combat operations. It also, as recent experience demonstrates, provides a high degree of battlefield survivability.
Unlike the M113 family it replaced, however, the Bradley is no mere "battle taxi." With the 25mm automatic cannon as its main armament and a coaxial 7.62mm machine gun, the Bradley is capable of defeating the majority of armored vehicles it is likely to encounter on the battlefield.
With pictures, diagrams, details of weaponry, and accounts of action, this book about the M2/M3 Bradley gives readers a real sense of how much this hardworking vehicle has contributed to American fighting power in recent years.
Synopsis
If ever there were an armored fighting vehicle that today's soldier could love, it would be the Bradley: of 2,200 that muscled through Operation Desert Storm, only three were disabled.
In a full-scale, fully detailed look at the M2/M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle System, Michael Green, veteran writer on military machines and tour guide at a tank museum, and co-author James D. Brown conduct readers through the nuts and bolts, production history, and wartime work of the stalwart Bradley.
Made to carry infantry squads safely to critical points on the battlefield and to perform cavalry scout missions, the Bradley is uniquely able to close in on and destroy enemy forces in support of mounted and dismounted infantry and cavalry combat operations. It also, as recent experience demonstrates, provides a high degree of battlefield survivability.
Unlike the M113 family it replaced, however, the Bradley is no mere "battle taxi." With the 25mm automatic cannon as its main armament and a coaxial 7.62mm machine gun, the Bradley is capable of defeating the majority of armored vehicles it is likely to encounter on the battlefield.
With pictures, diagrams, details of weaponry, and accounts of action, this book about the M2/M3 Bradley gives readers a real sense of how much this hardworking vehicle has contributed to American fighting power in recent years.
Synopsis
The M2/M3 Bradley was born from two separate streams of thought: one concerned with improving the capabilities of mechanized infantry, and the other with fine-tuning the role of armored cavalry. It was foreseen as a vehicle that would fight toe-to-toe with Soviet forces on the battlefields of Central Europe in a Third World War. That the Bradley has evolved far beyond this is a tribute to the flexibility of the original M2/M3 design. The Bradley name now covers an entire family of combat and combat-support vehicles capable of fighting in environmental extremes and against a full spectrum of opponents in battlefields around the globe.
This is the story of how the Bradley fighting-vehicle system has become an increasingly flexible and ever more powerful combat asset, the best infantry and cavalry fighting vehicle in the world.
Synopsis
A full-scale, well-detailed look at the M2/M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle System, the nuts and bolts of its workings, production history, and wartime performance.
About the Author
Michael Green is a freelance writer, researcher, and photographer who specializes in military, transportation, and law enforcement subjects and has more than fifty books to his credit. He has written numerous articles for a variety of national and international military-related magazines, as well.
James D. Brown served twenty years in the U.S. Army as an armor officer with a secondary specialty in research and development. His active duty service includes a four-year tour as an assistant professor of engineering at the United States Military Academy, where he taught combat vehicle design and automotive engineering.
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One Background
Chapter Two Description
Chapter Three Firepower
Chapter Four Protection, Derivatives, and Variants
Index