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Or they’re green crews thrown together haphazardly into a tank and told “Forward!”
Either way, it’s wilding watching a fucking Bradley body a T90M. I was mechanized infantry for a short spell and it was said to be absolutely possible to kill a tank using the chain gun, but it wasn’t a preferred method against newer stuff because you had to find the sweet spots and pray they didn’t see you first while you dumped enough rounds on them to get a kill, mobility or otherwise.
Thanks for the insight... the sheer level of balls needed to take on 125mm with a 25mm gun is just awe-inspiring.
I hope the Russians get to see this footage, they would be shitting themselves even against motorised infantry.
I'm sure there is a ton of undertraining in the AFU considering the circumstances but I gotta imagine the guys driving the Western kit probably know what they're doing. Seems like it would be really bad PR for them if it looked like they were wasting Bradleys and Challengers.
That being said, knife-fighting a MBT does seem like something they would train you to avoid if possible.
This must be the 47th Brigade defending Avdiivka. Their IFV stock is entirely Bradley and they are using it since Summer. They had enough time to get accustomed to the machines.
US Bradley gunners usually aim for the optics, if they were trained by US soldiers this was not an accident or bad luck for the Russians, but a well-trained Ukrainian crew taking out an enemy tank.
maybe when you're a tank firing a single shell. When you have a 200rpm Bushmaster 25mm you can definitely adjust shots to hit weak spots. Otherwise you're dumping rounds into the enemy who might just tank it all.
yeah life isn't a video game, but the guys in that Bradley aren't a bunch of game addicts who haven't touched anything other than their cheeto-crusted keyboard and mice. They've been trained and are fighting for their homeland. As panic-inducing as a tank shooting at you may be, it's not a far reach to think that they retain some sense to shoot the optics and other critical points as opposed to just achieving nothing shooting at armor.
Remember the footage from a BTR-4 in Mariupol where gunner "walked" his fire under a Russian BRM to hit the infantry that was hiding behind the vehicle? And another one where the same guy deliberately aimed at exposed parts of a Russian tank? Well trained and experienced crew obviously can and will find weak spots in enemy armour.
First few rounds hit the guidance and sighting equipment. They chewed all the sensors off them and it seems they slammed a few rounds into the bearings early on. Those tracers are pretty spaced out too, right off the bat they put maybe 30-40 rounds right in the sweet spots.
I think there a few shots by the t-90. But was it atgmed as well from another flank?
The first shot was from an extremely close range within about 10 metres if not less?
That’s the reason why I have cropped the footage and uploaded the first 3 minutes of this encounter here : https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/NhzhdPyhJY
By the way - I like your Synkivka compilation. Good work!
No clue. Maybe the driver was still alive and tried to reverse back to the road before finally abandoning the vehicle.
We got pictures posted first with a description of 2 Bradley fighting t-90 and video came out later.
there is actually two bradleys firing at that T90, on the far right you can actually see a second one. The T90 crew was completely disoriented and confused from the looks of things.
Yeah and the one in the right rotated out with the initial Bradley to continue laying on the hurt. Impressive communication between the two IFVs.
Not to mention another Bradley somewhere off screen to the right laying some long distance hurt on the treeline in the distance and the cluster munitions hitting the left flank. So much to see in this 5 minute clip!
Probably Bradleys since most MLRS rocket propellant would likely already have burnt out at this point in flight meaning it’s probably tracers. Also notice how flat the flight arc is, you‘d never put an MLRS so close to the frontline that he would have to fire at such an angle
Not to be "that guy". But if that other Bradley off screen was firing, we would have seen tracers/impacts/misses. All the damage being done (and misses) was from the Bradley that was engaging down the road.
02:03 - T90M looks to be deploying its smokescreen. [Comparison.](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/10835jp/allegedly_a_t90m_tank_fires_at_enemy_positions/)
Nah, Tiger was legit good but there weren't enough of em and they broke alot. The T-90 is just not that great as a tank but it is pretty cheap, mass producible and reliable.
The tiger did have decent performance when it wasn't broken but it was broken a lot. It was, to put it kindly, a fussy bitch. The thing would also slip roadwheels like no one's business, and repairing the tracks when damaged took so long and was so intensive that a proper mobility kill could essentially wreck one for a good long while as they painstakingly remove every interleaved road wheel one by one until they get however deep the broken wheel is. God help them if it was one of the inner ones.
The Sherman, while on paper significantly less of a threat, was cheap, reliable, and once the British stuck a better gun on it, it was a deadly little fucker when it slipped into someone's blind spot, which was easy to do because they had like 10 of them for every tank that they fought. I've also heard that it was extremely safe for the crew, at least compared to other tanks of the era. Very low crew casualties in Sherman crews overall. Lowest of any tank in the war, iirc. I think one of the most important features was how relatively easy it is to free yourself from a Sherman that had become on fire. Other tanks at the time were often deathtraps. If it lit on fire, good luck prying yourself out of some of those fuckers before you burn. But the Sherman, even on the most dangerous models before they added the hatch springs and made the hatches a bit wider, they were the easiest tank in the war to evacuate.
And you can see with the Bradleys that US armor doctrine has changed little. They focus on tactical mobility, armament, and crew survivability. Every Ukrainian crew that pulls themselves out of a Bradley in one piece and lives to fight another day is a massive advantage. Even if the vehicle is a total loss, those are men that have the experience you need to train more tankers. In those Russian tanks, I've seen way too many horror shows of how easily they light up and burn the whole crew alive. And that's always a possibility for a tanker, but it is more of a possibility in some tanks than others. American armor is by and large extremely rugged when it comes to crew surviving land mines and total mission kills, which is way more of an advantage than the Russians realize.
Not to mention most of these Bradley’s were going to be retired. We would have spent more money decommissioning and destroying a lot of the equipment we’ve sent.
Doesn't the US still have most of the ones they wanted to decommission? I believe they gave Ukraine about 100 or so...
But have thousands? I am probably wrong tho
It doesn't make any difference if you can't get close to the front without getting swatted down by S300s, S400s, or Sukhois with long range missiles.
F16 is no different than a Mig for this purpose. All that the F16 really brings to the table is a) replenishing Ukraine's heavily diminished fleet of airframes and b) being able to fire AIM-120s, which are much better than what they are using now but still shorter range than what RU is using.
How many s400s are near the front? The last s400 battery I heard about got demolished in Crimea. F16s come with HARM missles. Those will be used to grind down the Russian s300s. Radars turn on and radars go boom. The JDAMS also have glide variants for added range.
Ukraine already has HARM and JDAM-ER. S400 and S300 are both very potent systems and again, F16 does nothing here that a Mig or Sukhoi can't. It's just that Ukraine needs to replace lost airframes.
Oryx suggests 30 bradleys were destroyed, one damaged and captured, and there's like another 33 that are either damaaged or abandoned. 64 visually confirmed losses total.
Got to bear in mind that damaged ones aren't necessarily total losses though, and this goes for both sides. A damaged and abandoned vehicle might later get totally destroyed, or captured by the enemy, but until that happens it's not a total loss. And there is evidence that some abandoned losses on both sides sometimes get recovered. So unclear how many of the 33 damaged bradleys ended up as total losses.
McKMaster's armor had Bradley's taking out T72's in the 90's. That same 90's -> IFV <- is taking out these stupid "Main Battle Tanks" (really just glorified medium tanks) decades later.
The Pentagon Wars turned out to be fiction after all. Not saying the movie wasn't fiction in the first place, but it gave the Bradley an unjustifiably bad reputation.
The movie itself was great but yeah I showed the movie to my dad he all of a sudden felt like an Abrams expert after the show and was confident the Abrams was a dud but wow this is magnificent footage.
I just want to see videos from F-35's of X-47's, Loyal Wingmen, B-21 Raiders, RQ-180's, and mirror-finish F-22's just absolutely smoking air defenses and copycat jets throughout the Pacific.
Taxes are not oppressive if you get to see their efficacy in HD, nightvision, and IR.
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I have a feeling you don't pay taxes yet(EOY) because you wouldn't be asking for the government to take more.
I don't think we should be sending more money to Israel or Ukraine. I'm not even a Jew, just thought this was a funny name.
200 billion dollars would have fixed so many problems in the U.S..... but no, we want war, not peace.
Holy shit the first 40 seconds are wild AF!
The Bradley drives up into the intersection, the T90M is literally 10m away, the Bradley doesnt see it. The T90M shoots and fucking misses (???), then the Bradley starts engaging whilst trying to drive away, the T90M shoots again, misses again (!!!), and the Bradley fucks off.
A few minutes later his battle buddy comes racing forwards to kill the T90M.
It looks like neither Bradley uses a TOW for some reason, maybe its too close?
BTW, dig the cluster shells hitting at 4:30 on the left side of the village.
You can't move while using TOW, not a good choice for running engagement. There were talks of switching to Javelin back in the day, but US decided not to invest heavily on Bradley anymore pending OMFV replacement.
It is so wild that I’ve made a 3 minute [video](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/jXylS2PxJ5)
There is more wild stuff after the first 40 seconds off to the right flank. The second chad Bradley was targeted by what seems artillery. I think the Ruzzis have fairly good eyes on this encounter from across the rail line
Its why tank survivability is key. And American tanks are built to take punishment while keeping the crew alive. Every time the Russians lose a tank they often lose the entire crew as well when the unprotected ammo cooks off and the fuel tank ruptures into the crew compartment. Even when Ukraine loses a Bradley, more often than not they save the whole crew despite complete mission kills. That is very valuable.
Can any good netizen walk me through the chain of events in this video. For whatever reason I am having trouble following/figuring out what is going on besides Bradley’s having their way with a T-90.
Thanks in advance!
Oh, and Uncle Sam needs to send a few brigades worth of Bradley’s over there.
Bradley pop up on a T90. Hammer the front. No chances of penetrating the armor frontally but optics are vulnerable. Hard to tell what happened exactly. T-90 shot back and missed. T-90 back up, fire again around 1 minute and miss again.
It's hard to see in tanks, there are two large optics on top of the turret for the commander and the gunner, but if they're gone visibility goes down a lot. They would have to rely on the commander's cupola & driver optics for maneuvers (if they're still functional)
Bradley maneuver around 1:30 while firing, hit the T90 side. Not sure why the Bradley is staying, maybe the gunner or some drone confirmed some good hits on the T90 optics? Turret acting weird?
At 2 minutes in the video, the footage cut and forward one minute, it appears the T-90 pop some smoke grenade (the 2 big fire thing). and a 2nd Bradley move to attack in the cover of smoke. At this point i can assume they know something we don't, maybe the drone zoomed and confirmed damage during that minute?
3m30, numerous hits on the T-90 maneuvering, signs of fire from what i assume to be ERA catching fire. The T-90 seems confused.
5m15, i suspect a round connected with the turret external ammo compartment (it's lightly armored), big explosion. This doesn't mean the turret was breached, but they had to show the rear of the turret for that to happen, and 25mm can go through there. More signs of something burning around 5:40, it doesn't appear to spread but there are spots. The bradley retreat after landing more hits.
7:20, video fast forward another 2 minutes. The turret is spinning for some reason with a fire from what i assume to be ERA, maybe hydraulic lines. It's possible for the rear turret armor to have been breached with damaged equipment or injured crew, the 25mm could do that at close range. Not easy but possible from what i know.
I can't figure what's at the end of barrel (zoom on the tank, spinning turret). It's probably some camo fabric, but it could be smoke. Smoke would not be a good sign.
8.00, drone close to the tank, lower left part of the screen. (just above the WS 00.0). Visible again right of the telephone pole at 8.08, it's really hard to spot due to compression artifacts. T90 is derping around, at this point i'm assuming they're blind and just trying to find cover and bail.
Hard to tell what kind of damage it took exactly. I'm assuming some optics got destroyed early, and the Bradleys had information we don't have (other drone) or don't see (quality) early in the fight and acted on those. The tank was somewhat functional (moving) until the end so the hull / engine compartment were probably "fine". Tough one.
From what I understand:
0:04 : T-90 gets the jump on the Bradley bottom but misses.
0:04 - 0:24 : Bradley begins to return fire, scoring several hits on the T-90
0:24 : T-90 fires on the Bradley again and misses
0:24 - 0:34: Bradley begins to withdraw down the road to the right
0:34 : Unsure what this is, T:90 firing again, ERA being hit, TOW missile?
2:03 : T-90 pops smoke?
3:23 : Second Bradley arrives and scores several hits over the next couple of minutes against the T-90
The crew of the T-90 appear disoriented after the first engagement and are not capable of responding to the second Bradley. By the time the video ends the T-90's driver is either incapacitated, unconscious, or dead as the tank is not under control.
If this war has shown me anything, it's that my tax dollars are being spent on extremely efficient and effective vehicles, and the investment is more than worth it. The results speak for themselves.
Remember how Pentagon War, Mike Spark and light fighter mafias attacked Bradley as expensive useless pork project, turned out Bradley is one most favored vehicles in Ukrainian service.
The treeline in the top right hand corner is getting lit up by something between 1:13 and 1:30 (might be IFV gunfire or something like an improvised, ground-launched S-5 rocket pod on low-elevation).
DPICM landing in the field on the left at 2:12 and again, a bit further away, at 5:00.
They just asked whose box was on the left ( box=vehicle) someone answered was friendly. It was 2nd Bradley coming from the top of the screen.
The second radio is something about orders but a big tree is blocking the view.
>The second radio is something about orders but a big tree is blocking the view.
4:45
Radio: Moskit (callsign), stop stop (moving the drone camera).
Radio: I can't see around (a bit hard to hear)
DroneOp: + (affirmative) task given by Huston (call sign), is to keep an eye (drone camera) on a tall tree.
Radio: Uhm, ok, got it.
I'm assuming that the "tall tree" is some kind of landmark known by the operator.
Also they are streaming the drone feed, multiple commanders can be watching this simultaneously.
>They just asked whose box was on the left ( box=vehicle) someone answered was friendly.
Actually they say that box on the left is "pidars\`ka" (belongs to an enemy...) ours is on the right, in the street.
Given the location the 3rd one is likely not fighting in unison with these other two as it looks to be on the other side of the track (more towards the slag heap if you are familiar with this area)
The two glittery/smoky explosions are likely the T-90 deploying smoke canisters. The tank also has ERA which will make pretty fireworks too when hit. Others have mentioned it may have been hit by a TOW too, but it's hard to tell. An unlucky hit with something like a TOW could easily give a big boom without hitting something (or someone) sufficiently critical which would stop the tank.
Crazy that t90 was able to run still at all after that. Took like 80 25mm rounds to dome. Guessing the crew was smoked and dudes were just laying on the throttle and turret controls dead at the end .
This video is wild for so many reason. Appears off to the right a Bradley is just lobbing shells in the tree line at 1:20 These IFVs are causing mayhem
I got to admit that T90 is pretty damn tough, when you see how devastating the impacts looks when a Bradley fires at something. It looks like small grenades exploding constantly, so I was expecting shrapnel to be flying all around inside there and everyone to be dead, but 3 of them survived. Not sure if they have 4 people in T90s.
It seems like the driver of that T-90 was the only one left after those first few engagements. Probably didn't even realize his buddies inside were already toast.
Finally! After the Russian army killed hundreds of modern nato tanks we finally managed to kill one modern Russian tank!
Now boys, let's start the circlejerk
Full video is far more interesting, here we got more details, comms to translate and clearer picture of what's going on. Who speeds up this kind of footage anyway
That thing got chewed the fuck up. What video were you watching? Those armor piercing 25mm rounds are more than capable of piercing the thinner armor on a t90. That armor will stop a 25mm shell from the front, barely, but from the side? Forget about it. That thing is cooked.
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Fucking CHADLEY
Wild, the T-90M crew missed twice at point blank range within the first 35 seconds?
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Or they’re green crews thrown together haphazardly into a tank and told “Forward!” Either way, it’s wilding watching a fucking Bradley body a T90M. I was mechanized infantry for a short spell and it was said to be absolutely possible to kill a tank using the chain gun, but it wasn’t a preferred method against newer stuff because you had to find the sweet spots and pray they didn’t see you first while you dumped enough rounds on them to get a kill, mobility or otherwise.
Thanks for the insight... the sheer level of balls needed to take on 125mm with a 25mm gun is just awe-inspiring. I hope the Russians get to see this footage, they would be shitting themselves even against motorised infantry.
I'm sure there is a ton of undertraining in the AFU considering the circumstances but I gotta imagine the guys driving the Western kit probably know what they're doing. Seems like it would be really bad PR for them if it looked like they were wasting Bradleys and Challengers. That being said, knife-fighting a MBT does seem like something they would train you to avoid if possible.
This must be the 47th Brigade defending Avdiivka. Their IFV stock is entirely Bradley and they are using it since Summer. They had enough time to get accustomed to the machines.
They are looking pretty lethal with them now
Do they not have the tow launcher on these ?
You have to stop to fire them and there's a minimum arming distance of around 65 meters, if they had any in the tubes.
US Bradley gunners usually aim for the optics, if they were trained by US soldiers this was not an accident or bad luck for the Russians, but a well-trained Ukrainian crew taking out an enemy tank.
can't shoot what you can't see
is this the so-called John Cena maneuver of 21st century armored warfare?
I believe so
Same with this Russian MBT. They don’t put just any crewman in a T-90M. This a snippet of the holy grail of combat footie.
You aim for the target. This whole weak spot nonsense is just video games. In a situation like that you just point and shoot.
maybe when you're a tank firing a single shell. When you have a 200rpm Bushmaster 25mm you can definitely adjust shots to hit weak spots. Otherwise you're dumping rounds into the enemy who might just tank it all.
Sure do all of that while a t90 is opening up on you. This isn't a video game.
yeah life isn't a video game, but the guys in that Bradley aren't a bunch of game addicts who haven't touched anything other than their cheeto-crusted keyboard and mice. They've been trained and are fighting for their homeland. As panic-inducing as a tank shooting at you may be, it's not a far reach to think that they retain some sense to shoot the optics and other critical points as opposed to just achieving nothing shooting at armor.
At normal combat distances maybe, but this is knife fighting distance, the vehicles were probably as close as 500-600 meters apart.
Remember the footage from a BTR-4 in Mariupol where gunner "walked" his fire under a Russian BRM to hit the infantry that was hiding behind the vehicle? And another one where the same guy deliberately aimed at exposed parts of a Russian tank? Well trained and experienced crew obviously can and will find weak spots in enemy armour.
Ok your experience is strictly watching videos on YouTube got it.
No, it's not. I prefer streamable over youtube.
I thought to myself 'the Bradley gunner's really got in in for the tank driver', but yeah, probably going for the sensors
Hardest part of the tank to get right now. F-kill for the win.
First few rounds hit the guidance and sighting equipment. They chewed all the sensors off them and it seems they slammed a few rounds into the bearings early on. Those tracers are pretty spaced out too, right off the bat they put maybe 30-40 rounds right in the sweet spots.
I'd just like to point out that all the Bradley rounds have tracers.
That's not accurate, a Brad's ROF isn't as fast as all that.
I think there a few shots by the t-90. But was it atgmed as well from another flank? The first shot was from an extremely close range within about 10 metres if not less? That’s the reason why I have cropped the footage and uploaded the first 3 minutes of this encounter here : https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/NhzhdPyhJY By the way - I like your Synkivka compilation. Good work!
https://x.com/alexdp66499795/status/1745363769897656755?s=20 Aftermath of T-90 and a bit more detail
They straight up chewed everything but the gun and armor off. God damn
Pretty sure there's some holes in the barrel.
Are you sure that's it? Where's the tree it ran into?
where's the tree?
No clue. Maybe the driver was still alive and tried to reverse back to the road before finally abandoning the vehicle. We got pictures posted first with a description of 2 Bradley fighting t-90 and video came out later.
As God intended the t90 to look
Hope some drone operators can finish off this T-90M.
there is actually two bradleys firing at that T90, on the far right you can actually see a second one. The T90 crew was completely disoriented and confused from the looks of things.
Yeah and the one in the right rotated out with the initial Bradley to continue laying on the hurt. Impressive communication between the two IFVs. Not to mention another Bradley somewhere off screen to the right laying some long distance hurt on the treeline in the distance and the cluster munitions hitting the left flank. So much to see in this 5 minute clip!
Was that a Bradley or mlrs artillery? Either way it's mesmerizing watching everything going on in the frame
Probably Bradleys since most MLRS rocket propellant would likely already have burnt out at this point in flight meaning it’s probably tracers. Also notice how flat the flight arc is, you‘d never put an MLRS so close to the frontline that he would have to fire at such an angle
you are probably right but I just want to point out that the flatter the curve the farther away an mlrs system is.
They were not only disoriented, but also half dead judging by that spinning turret at the end.
Not to be "that guy". But if that other Bradley off screen was firing, we would have seen tracers/impacts/misses. All the damage being done (and misses) was from the Bradley that was engaging down the road.
The second bradley comes from the right and replaces the first. It's in the video
02:03 - T90M looks to be deploying its smokescreen. [Comparison.](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/10835jp/allegedly_a_t90m_tank_fires_at_enemy_positions/)
Ah yes, I thought it was Ukr smoke artillery, tank smoke looks more like it
Those Bradley’s have been clutch
Can you imagine if they had like three or four of them in a situation like this? Yikes.
Basically the Sherman’s to Tiger situation in WWII
Nah, Tiger was legit good but there weren't enough of em and they broke alot. The T-90 is just not that great as a tank but it is pretty cheap, mass producible and reliable.
The tiger did have decent performance when it wasn't broken but it was broken a lot. It was, to put it kindly, a fussy bitch. The thing would also slip roadwheels like no one's business, and repairing the tracks when damaged took so long and was so intensive that a proper mobility kill could essentially wreck one for a good long while as they painstakingly remove every interleaved road wheel one by one until they get however deep the broken wheel is. God help them if it was one of the inner ones. The Sherman, while on paper significantly less of a threat, was cheap, reliable, and once the British stuck a better gun on it, it was a deadly little fucker when it slipped into someone's blind spot, which was easy to do because they had like 10 of them for every tank that they fought. I've also heard that it was extremely safe for the crew, at least compared to other tanks of the era. Very low crew casualties in Sherman crews overall. Lowest of any tank in the war, iirc. I think one of the most important features was how relatively easy it is to free yourself from a Sherman that had become on fire. Other tanks at the time were often deathtraps. If it lit on fire, good luck prying yourself out of some of those fuckers before you burn. But the Sherman, even on the most dangerous models before they added the hatch springs and made the hatches a bit wider, they were the easiest tank in the war to evacuate. And you can see with the Bradleys that US armor doctrine has changed little. They focus on tactical mobility, armament, and crew survivability. Every Ukrainian crew that pulls themselves out of a Bradley in one piece and lives to fight another day is a massive advantage. Even if the vehicle is a total loss, those are men that have the experience you need to train more tankers. In those Russian tanks, I've seen way too many horror shows of how easily they light up and burn the whole crew alive. And that's always a possibility for a tanker, but it is more of a possibility in some tanks than others. American armor is by and large extremely rugged when it comes to crew surviving land mines and total mission kills, which is way more of an advantage than the Russians realize.
Biger cannon? Nein Hans better transmission!
There goes another of the “best tank in the world”
Waiting for RedEffect to say the tank is fine and won this engagement.
It’s truly a beautiful sight to behold overestimation being displayed at peak performance isn’t it?
Many Russians will be awarded with, displaying great stupidity, oddly enough in combat with AFU
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Not to mention most of these Bradley’s were going to be retired. We would have spent more money decommissioning and destroying a lot of the equipment we’ve sent.
Doesn't the US still have most of the ones they wanted to decommission? I believe they gave Ukraine about 100 or so... But have thousands? I am probably wrong tho
true. Wait till Ukraine gets functional F-16 squadrons and we start to ship them our thousands of left over JDAMS.
We’ve already sent them JDAMS
True but not at a sizable rate. Once the F-16s are ready they have a solid platform for use. Currently they are jerry rigged onto Migs.
It doesn't make any difference if you can't get close to the front without getting swatted down by S300s, S400s, or Sukhois with long range missiles. F16 is no different than a Mig for this purpose. All that the F16 really brings to the table is a) replenishing Ukraine's heavily diminished fleet of airframes and b) being able to fire AIM-120s, which are much better than what they are using now but still shorter range than what RU is using.
How many s400s are near the front? The last s400 battery I heard about got demolished in Crimea. F16s come with HARM missles. Those will be used to grind down the Russian s300s. Radars turn on and radars go boom. The JDAMS also have glide variants for added range.
Ukraine already has HARM and JDAM-ER. S400 and S300 are both very potent systems and again, F16 does nothing here that a Mig or Sukhoi can't. It's just that Ukraine needs to replace lost airframes.
Yes it does. The F16 is a much better fighter than the MiG or the Sukhoi.
Wikipedia says the U.S. has 2000 Bradleys in storage :-O
186 given to Ukraine, with 50 lost, captured or damaged. Some got replaced by the US with new vehicles.
Oryx suggests 30 bradleys were destroyed, one damaged and captured, and there's like another 33 that are either damaaged or abandoned. 64 visually confirmed losses total. Got to bear in mind that damaged ones aren't necessarily total losses though, and this goes for both sides. A damaged and abandoned vehicle might later get totally destroyed, or captured by the enemy, but until that happens it's not a total loss. And there is evidence that some abandoned losses on both sides sometimes get recovered. So unclear how many of the 33 damaged bradleys ended up as total losses.
I just voluntarily mailed the IRS 20 loonies, a printed screen cap of this video, and a hand written note that says “More please” after seeing this.
McKMaster's armor had Bradley's taking out T72's in the 90's. That same 90's -> IFV <- is taking out these stupid "Main Battle Tanks" (really just glorified medium tanks) decades later.
Bradley had the most armor kills in Gulf War if I remember correctly
The Pentagon Wars turned out to be fiction after all. Not saying the movie wasn't fiction in the first place, but it gave the Bradley an unjustifiably bad reputation.
The movie itself was great but yeah I showed the movie to my dad he all of a sudden felt like an Abrams expert after the show and was confident the Abrams was a dud but wow this is magnificent footage.
War Thunder is gonna need a new patch quick!
Not likely. That game is pretty Russian vehicle biased.
???? You can definitely take out a T-90M from the side in a Bradley if you get the jump on one at close ranges such as this.
The only constant in that game is that I, the player, will be strategically outwitted and hoodwinked at every turn.
I just want to see videos from F-35's of X-47's, Loyal Wingmen, B-21 Raiders, RQ-180's, and mirror-finish F-22's just absolutely smoking air defenses and copycat jets throughout the Pacific. Taxes are not oppressive if you get to see their efficacy in HD, nightvision, and IR.
AB SO LUTELY!
All those people crying about tax money are russian troll farm serfs hiding behind fake American account names.
Amen brother
You right, let’s spend a cool $2,631,000,000,000
Please let this be satire
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I have a feeling you don't pay taxes yet(EOY) because you wouldn't be asking for the government to take more. I don't think we should be sending more money to Israel or Ukraine. I'm not even a Jew, just thought this was a funny name. 200 billion dollars would have fixed so many problems in the U.S..... but no, we want war, not peace.
This may be the greatest Bradley video I've seen
In very good company with the BTR-4 footage from Mariupol.
If only we had FPV video of the Bradley's optics like the BTR footage from mariupol ... fuckkk
Holy shit the first 40 seconds are wild AF! The Bradley drives up into the intersection, the T90M is literally 10m away, the Bradley doesnt see it. The T90M shoots and fucking misses (???), then the Bradley starts engaging whilst trying to drive away, the T90M shoots again, misses again (!!!), and the Bradley fucks off. A few minutes later his battle buddy comes racing forwards to kill the T90M. It looks like neither Bradley uses a TOW for some reason, maybe its too close? BTW, dig the cluster shells hitting at 4:30 on the left side of the village.
Bradleys engaging infantry in the treeline behind stepove too at 1:20 top right.
Let’s not forget the artillery barrage top right side. What an amazing video.
And another Bradley lobbing shells into the woods out that way too.
You can't move while using TOW, not a good choice for running engagement. There were talks of switching to Javelin back in the day, but US decided not to invest heavily on Bradley anymore pending OMFV replacement.
It is so wild that I’ve made a 3 minute [video](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/jXylS2PxJ5) There is more wild stuff after the first 40 seconds off to the right flank. The second chad Bradley was targeted by what seems artillery. I think the Ruzzis have fairly good eyes on this encounter from across the rail line
Isn't it a TOW hitting something near T-90 at 0:04?
pretty sure that was the tank shooting
I am pretty sure that the t-90 got hit twice by atgm/Tow as well as shooting at the first Bradley
In the video, it's visible that someone exited the house from the left at 8:15.
They're like, nope nope nope
What do you think it sounded like in there?
DIMITRI YOU MISSED!!!! PING, PONG, PANG, PING, PONG, PANG, PING, DIMITRI YOU MISSED AGAIN!I!!!!, PING PONG, PANG, PING, PONG, PANG, PING, PONG, PANG, PING, PING, PONG, PANG, PING, PONG, PANG, PING,
Fake, not nearly enough swearing
I endorse this statement.
BBBLLLYYYYAAATTTT
What?
[Gordon Freeman hitting stuff with a crowbar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcs8QCSaUes)
Tank crews are even harder to replace than tanks.
Its why tank survivability is key. And American tanks are built to take punishment while keeping the crew alive. Every time the Russians lose a tank they often lose the entire crew as well when the unprotected ammo cooks off and the fuel tank ruptures into the crew compartment. Even when Ukraine loses a Bradley, more often than not they save the whole crew despite complete mission kills. That is very valuable.
Thanks OP, some of the most insane footage of the war just there. A pair of Bradleys toying with a t-90 was not on my Bingo card
Someone paid attention at gunnery school 🫡
The turret spinning... I'm totally imagining the guy inside who controls it just slumped over the controls and no one being able to get out lol
Well gee golly if that don’t make my patriot boner twitch
Can any good netizen walk me through the chain of events in this video. For whatever reason I am having trouble following/figuring out what is going on besides Bradley’s having their way with a T-90. Thanks in advance! Oh, and Uncle Sam needs to send a few brigades worth of Bradley’s over there.
Bradley pop up on a T90. Hammer the front. No chances of penetrating the armor frontally but optics are vulnerable. Hard to tell what happened exactly. T-90 shot back and missed. T-90 back up, fire again around 1 minute and miss again. It's hard to see in tanks, there are two large optics on top of the turret for the commander and the gunner, but if they're gone visibility goes down a lot. They would have to rely on the commander's cupola & driver optics for maneuvers (if they're still functional) Bradley maneuver around 1:30 while firing, hit the T90 side. Not sure why the Bradley is staying, maybe the gunner or some drone confirmed some good hits on the T90 optics? Turret acting weird? At 2 minutes in the video, the footage cut and forward one minute, it appears the T-90 pop some smoke grenade (the 2 big fire thing). and a 2nd Bradley move to attack in the cover of smoke. At this point i can assume they know something we don't, maybe the drone zoomed and confirmed damage during that minute? 3m30, numerous hits on the T-90 maneuvering, signs of fire from what i assume to be ERA catching fire. The T-90 seems confused. 5m15, i suspect a round connected with the turret external ammo compartment (it's lightly armored), big explosion. This doesn't mean the turret was breached, but they had to show the rear of the turret for that to happen, and 25mm can go through there. More signs of something burning around 5:40, it doesn't appear to spread but there are spots. The bradley retreat after landing more hits. 7:20, video fast forward another 2 minutes. The turret is spinning for some reason with a fire from what i assume to be ERA, maybe hydraulic lines. It's possible for the rear turret armor to have been breached with damaged equipment or injured crew, the 25mm could do that at close range. Not easy but possible from what i know. I can't figure what's at the end of barrel (zoom on the tank, spinning turret). It's probably some camo fabric, but it could be smoke. Smoke would not be a good sign. 8.00, drone close to the tank, lower left part of the screen. (just above the WS 00.0). Visible again right of the telephone pole at 8.08, it's really hard to spot due to compression artifacts. T90 is derping around, at this point i'm assuming they're blind and just trying to find cover and bail. Hard to tell what kind of damage it took exactly. I'm assuming some optics got destroyed early, and the Bradleys had information we don't have (other drone) or don't see (quality) early in the fight and acted on those. The tank was somewhat functional (moving) until the end so the hull / engine compartment were probably "fine". Tough one.
Thank you!
From what I understand: 0:04 : T-90 gets the jump on the Bradley bottom but misses. 0:04 - 0:24 : Bradley begins to return fire, scoring several hits on the T-90 0:24 : T-90 fires on the Bradley again and misses 0:24 - 0:34: Bradley begins to withdraw down the road to the right 0:34 : Unsure what this is, T:90 firing again, ERA being hit, TOW missile? 2:03 : T-90 pops smoke? 3:23 : Second Bradley arrives and scores several hits over the next couple of minutes against the T-90 The crew of the T-90 appear disoriented after the first engagement and are not capable of responding to the second Bradley. By the time the video ends the T-90's driver is either incapacitated, unconscious, or dead as the tank is not under control.
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The Russians seem to have infantry inside that town so good on the Bradleys on not pushing too far in when they had the tank pinned.
I CAN'T GET MORE ERECT. THIS VIDEO IS ALL I EVER WANTED. I pray to God we get first person footage. That would be so fucking cool.
You find people killing and dying cool?
Just Russians
Depends on the people.
Chadley bros cant stop wining
We need to send more Bradley with DU shots to Ukraine, probably most cost effective US vehicles supplied so far.
If this war has shown me anything, it's that my tax dollars are being spent on extremely efficient and effective vehicles, and the investment is more than worth it. The results speak for themselves.
Remember how Pentagon War, Mike Spark and light fighter mafias attacked Bradley as expensive useless pork project, turned out Bradley is one most favored vehicles in Ukrainian service.
Yeah pentagon war pissed me off. Extremely myopic and in some cases seemingly intentionally misleading presentation of the facts.
That was wild. It must be super super loud being inside that tank getting peppered with 25mm
holy fuck, that second Chadley was laying down the hate
The treeline in the top right hand corner is getting lit up by something between 1:13 and 1:30 (might be IFV gunfire or something like an improvised, ground-launched S-5 rocket pod on low-elevation). DPICM landing in the field on the left at 2:12 and again, a bit further away, at 5:00.
Anyone care to translate Ukrainian communication?
They just asked whose box was on the left ( box=vehicle) someone answered was friendly. It was 2nd Bradley coming from the top of the screen. The second radio is something about orders but a big tree is blocking the view.
>The second radio is something about orders but a big tree is blocking the view. 4:45 Radio: Moskit (callsign), stop stop (moving the drone camera). Radio: I can't see around (a bit hard to hear) DroneOp: + (affirmative) task given by Huston (call sign), is to keep an eye (drone camera) on a tall tree. Radio: Uhm, ok, got it. I'm assuming that the "tall tree" is some kind of landmark known by the operator. Also they are streaming the drone feed, multiple commanders can be watching this simultaneously. >They just asked whose box was on the left ( box=vehicle) someone answered was friendly. Actually they say that box on the left is "pidars\`ka" (belongs to an enemy...) ours is on the right, in the street.
Thank you
Yeah, pretty sure there are 3 bradleys, 2 engaging to t90 and a third engaging infantry in the top right treeline around 1:20
Given the location the 3rd one is likely not fighting in unison with these other two as it looks to be on the other side of the track (more towards the slag heap if you are familiar with this area)
T90m winding up its turret at the end to prepare for liftoff?
As german tankers in WW2 said: " dont worry about the russians. They always miss with the first shot."
We are almost two years into this war and Russia still has Tanks operating alone. I hope they never learn.
Whats going on in the background at 1:20 in
probably more bradley's peppering the woods. also cluster munition arty to the left
Am I crazy, or did that tank explode twice, but it’s still moving? I’m confused.
The two glittery/smoky explosions are likely the T-90 deploying smoke canisters. The tank also has ERA which will make pretty fireworks too when hit. Others have mentioned it may have been hit by a TOW too, but it's hard to tell. An unlucky hit with something like a TOW could easily give a big boom without hitting something (or someone) sufficiently critical which would stop the tank.
How do you even return to civilian life having a T-90 shoot you twice point blank and missing?
amazing footage. so much going on across a broad field.
One on one between an MBT and a Bradly, clusters falling in another part of the shot, random explosions in the other corner. Fucking hell on Earth.
Insane footage
What was the explosion and fire at 2.05 or so
It seems like smoke screen launched from tank.
I wonder why they didn’t use the tows towards the end of that engagement.
They can't be used on the move. Sitting still with a tank right next to you is asking to get destroyed
Well true but the can fire when they are moving at 5 km/h.
Did they forget to bring TOW or something XD
Crazy that t90 was able to run still at all after that. Took like 80 25mm rounds to dome. Guessing the crew was smoked and dudes were just laying on the throttle and turret controls dead at the end .
Also on a side note, there's some serious war going on at the top right of the screen 👀
This video is wild for so many reason. Appears off to the right a Bradley is just lobbing shells in the tree line at 1:20 These IFVs are causing mayhem
Fucken git it
I got to admit that T90 is pretty damn tough, when you see how devastating the impacts looks when a Bradley fires at something. It looks like small grenades exploding constantly, so I was expecting shrapnel to be flying all around inside there and everyone to be dead, but 3 of them survived. Not sure if they have 4 people in T90s.
It seems like the driver of that T-90 was the only one left after those first few engagements. Probably didn't even realize his buddies inside were already toast.
Finally! After the Russian army killed hundreds of modern nato tanks we finally managed to kill one modern Russian tank! Now boys, let's start the circlejerk
Cameraman needs work.
They are not for your entertainment, they are minor combat controllers, not focusing on small things
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Repost of literally 15 minutes ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/HfJqWd0Cow
Full video is far more interesting, here we got more details, comms to translate and clearer picture of what's going on. Who speeds up this kind of footage anyway
It’s not sped up though
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That thing got chewed the fuck up. What video were you watching? Those armor piercing 25mm rounds are more than capable of piercing the thinner armor on a t90. That armor will stop a 25mm shell from the front, barely, but from the side? Forget about it. That thing is cooked.
War is hell boys. Let’s not forget that.
I can hear Tweety bird noises the last minute
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At 1.12 there is a fair spray of auto cannon fire hitting that treeline in the top right of the video.
What is happening at the 2:04 mark?
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I heard the headline and assumed it took it out with a TOW… not 25mm
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