The U.S. Army has released a 30-seconds video that showed some unusual tactics of using Abrams tanks and Bradley combat vehicles. The tweet with video, which includes footage of “sniper tanks”, shows Abrams tank and Bradley fighting vehicle, which are hiding in the folds of the terrain and dense overgrowth. Thanks to camouflage, combat vehicles […]

Global defense company BAE Systems has revealed the rendering of its proposal for the Army’s new infantry vehicle – the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle. The new vehicle, slated to ultimately replace the decades-old Bradley, will achieve operational combat status as soon as 2028 – and, according to Army documents, pave the way forward into a new […]

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced this week that the U.S. State Department has cleared a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of 76 M2A2 Bradley fighting vehicles. According to DSCA, the Pentagon’s top arms broker, the possible deal has an estimated value of $757 million. The proposed package includes the following according to […]

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U.S. Army M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle deployment to northeast Syria has helped to lower tensions and prevent new conflicts in the region. The U.S. military has sent M2A2 Bradley fighting vehicles to eastern Syria in September to help protect the hundreds of American troops stationed there following series of tense encounters with Russian forces. […]

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U.S. Forces in northeastern Syria continue to secure oil fields not only from the self-declared Islamic State of Iraq and Syria but also from the Syrian government and Russian forces. Currently, U.S. Soldiers with M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles continue to perform important tasks of defense duties at oil fields. The soldiers are in Syria […]

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The U.S. Army Operational Test Command has already begun testing the latest variant of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle family, the M2A4. Bradley M2A4 trials are taking place at the facilities of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army at Fort Hood military base in Texas. The upgraded variant of […]

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The U.S. Department of Defense is deploying a small number of U.S. troops with M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles to North-East Syria, according to U.S. Central Command. U.S. Army Soldiers and M2A2 Bradley fighting vehicles have arrived in northeastern Syria Sep 18, 2020. The Army sent six Bradley vehicles, around 100 troops to North-East Syria to give […]

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The U.S. Army Next Generation Combat Vehicle – Cross Functional Team and CCDC Ground Vehicle Systems Center make progress towards integrating unmanned vehicles into ground combat formations and successfully completed the first soldier operational experiment for the Robotic Combat Vehicle effort at Army Fort Carson. This is was the first in a series of Soldier […]