SOFTBALL #2 Item #3...
First to respond...
1. At the time the
BRADLEY "BUSK" was submitted, the references I used basically put the priority on getting them (Urban Protection System.) installed on the A3. The A3 is pretty much doing most of the heavy lifting now from what I understand on the front lines. And as you mentioned the slot situation is beyond tight.
Though I'll take this opportunity too throw out my
Plan B here (And I have my
Steinke Hood handy when I get torpedoed!?!-
) the UAE or as I like to call it the UAE/PITA some of the countries that make this up already have their own OOB's and trying to keep up with the equipment buys and upgrades etc., etc. I gave up even trying myself to do this maybe could we consider killing it and then dividing it up among the most slot restricted OOB's?
2. This might help concerning the
EFOGM or not.
http://www.reocities.com/Pentagon/qu...6747/efogm.htm
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/efogm/
3. The end of
"Jake's Tale... As a refresher he primarily served in the BRADLEY A2 tracks as a gunner in Korea and saw combat in Iraq. His unit was one of the ones chosen to operationally field test the
BRADLEY A3 BFIST. Not to rehash from the previous posts too much...again the auto-cannon is a dual feed ammo weapon that allows the gunner to select between the
HE-FRAG and AP belts while engaging targets. In our discussions and based on them his/my concerns are as follows...
A. Are the game units using
HE-FRAG rounds as this was the standard round used by all types to his knowledge.
B. It would make sense especially with the ROF of the BUSHMASTER to have either an equal (And preferable.) amount of both HE-FRAG and AP rounds or at minimum, increase the AP allotment over current game levels.
Those were the game issues discussed somewhere.
The last is some insight that would make sense to most of you out here...
C. As a point of interest he told me the loaded belts had between 72-75 (He couldn't remember which.) rounds each. They NEVER had less than 400 rounds each of HE-FRAG and AP onboard (This matches most refs that show they carried at least 900/or 1000 rounds total.) however, when going on a combat mission they
routinely carried much more depending on the mission and threats expected to be encountered. An easy rule of thumb as a gunner he/they used was anything less then an
up-armored HUMMER got HE-FRAG and above that standard AP.
http://www.military-today.com/apc/m2_bradley.htm
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/bradley/
Regards,
Pat
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