>Every day, under relentless fire, they drive fresh troops in and spent ones out, with just 30 seconds to make the swap on the battlefield.
>And, after a month of fighting, there was so little left of the village they took in late August that they couldn’t believe what they found: civilians still cowering in their basements.
>After the infantry told them to gather their things, they were rushed into the Bradleys under constant fire. One woman brought her cat, another civilian asked if he could bring the car he’d spent his life savings on before the war by driving it out sandwiched between two Bradleys.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/09/05/europe/ukraine-zaporizhzhia-robotyne-bradley-intl-cmd/index.html
It’s just a damn workhorse
The liberator of robotyne. I’m so glad that the Bradley gets to see use in a major war before retirement.
me too anon
>retirement
>implying that the ukies and anyone else who's interested won't be buying them up now.
The US is also buying new production M7a4s and M2a4s from BAE with production ending in 2028. They’re going to remain in US service until the OMFV has pumped out thousands of units
I'm just happy that another piece of American equipment has been proven to be world-class.
And that’s old American equipment. The thermals on those things are from the gulf war. Modern Bradley’s have 3rd generation thermals
Fuck you Warriortard
^ why do people lash out like this. Every infantry fighting vehicle doesn’t have to be a discussion about the warrior
Ganbatte Bradley-chan!
>One woman brought her cat
Based, you can't abandon family.
>Babushka’s cat
Here, I had the screenshot saved...
Bradley gato
Brodley Kot
Bronlye kitto
it just works
Why does that stupid APC have a turret like a tank? It's stupid and I hate it.
It's a ifv and it allows for rotation, add-ons and better field of view
Russian ground forces have been obliterated but the Bradley won't come into its own until the Ukrainians switch from total Russian artillery death to total Russian APC(and thus infantry) death. Should be faster manoeuvre as well. Being a Russian mobik now is more suicidal than a Jap Kamikaze in WW2
stop posting this bogus graphic please for the love of god just use oryx
>38 artillery
Whew, now that's a good day's haul.
There is no fucking way they’ve killed 250k vatniks
Anyone who believes those numbers is a retard. Russian losses are severe but over a million casualties, c’mon now
>another civilian asked if he could bring the car he’d spent his life savings on before the war by driving it out sandwiched between two Bradleys.
Mad lad
Well as the article said, he'd spent his life savings on it shortly before the war, so might not have much cash in hand; now he can sell it if he needs the money instead of leaving it and having absolutely nothing
So what was the car?
kek
Sauce me up, my dude.
you have to ask your krokodil dealer for that
alcohol-induced hallucination revealed it to me
LMAO. Newsflash, 76 regiment got fuckign evicerated, Ukies not only hold Robotyne but have pushed further south of it.
>spending your life savings on a car
Must be an PrepHole tard or the fact that the average wage in Ukraine is $200
Most Americans don't even own their cars yet.
>most prolific post WW2 tank killer
>bane of the sand people
>pimped out to the tits with superior American tech
>Can penetrate dozens of vatniks with every shot
>Exclusively gets used to taxi dudes back and forth
kek
Taking troops to the frontline is a pretty standard use case for an IF
>Infantry Fighting Vehicle is used to transport and support infantry?!?!
How was that civilians precious car still alive after the shelling? How come no russian stole it before that?
Dude probably hid it???
It’s funny because only the Bradley could be the backbone of an armoured assault. No other IFV in Ukraine has both the protection and firepower
Based Bradley
>Totally organic shillposting
https://desuarchive.org/_/search/boards/k.desu/text/Based%20Bradley/
I know you only changed your script in July but serioeusly find a new shill angle
>Nothing but our local tards shill threads
Jesus christ he really did just swap narratives, he's just so easy to spot.
Uhoh this wasn’t supposed to happen
>Nothing but our local tards shill threads
Jesus christ he really did just swap narratives, he's just so easy to spot. It really is just one guy
Not a wunderwaffle, but a waffle nonetheless.
The fact Russia is shelling their own trenchlines outside of Verbove seems to indicate otherwise.
The Ukrainians figured out the Auto cannon with armor piercing Cuts right through trenches and mud on purpose
Trenches don't provide cover or concealment against a Bradley. So it's guys with are artillery and counted artillery in an armored vehicle with an auto cannon vs guys with ak 47s in a field. If it wasn't for the air bombings it would be a complete slaughter. Right now it's about 13 Russians dead to 1 Ukraine dead, 2 injured and rebuilt
Russians are just dying now or getting captured.
If a Russian soldier gets shot, he's going to die. They don't have the ability to treat the soldiers in the field anymore. You just die from a leg gunshot wound
>They don't have the ability to treat the soldiers in the field anymore.
Did they ever? I got the impression it was WW2-style 'take a painkiller and manfully bear your wounds until we can get you to a field hospital.'
During Afghanistan they had a functional field physician system
Of course they also had Ukraine
>The Ukrainians figured out the Auto cannon with armor piercing Cuts right through trenches and mud on purpose
Took them a little while, I think. Their initial usage of the Bradley was more in line with how BMPs are used than something as capable as it is. Send like training and experience has started to pay off with proper leaning in to its strengths.
>If a Russian soldier gets shot, he's going to die.
somebody post the piss-drinking webm
>Russia has a civil war tier medical Corp
Grim
>embarrassing victories
>Russia isn't losing fast enough
>neither side controls it
>Bradley’s casually driving in the town proper
>Russians not driving in the town proper
kek that was easy
If it isn’t the (You) factory. Funny seeing you here.
>they drive fresh troops in and spent ones out
This is just a such a gloomy way to put it.
>war is gloomy
No fricking way.
Chadley
Where IS the first line of defense exactly? I have the impression the Ukis could be right outside vladivostok and you people would still say they havent penetrated that first line
The first line always very conveniently moves just out of reach of the Ukrainians whenever they advance.
But in all seriousness, the actual Surovikin line trenches have already been verified to have been breached in Verbove.
well you see anon, when pesky hohol approaches second line of defense, it becomes first!
A simple google search shows multiple outlets reporting Robotyne's fall. CNN, NYT, Forbes, and even your own vaunted NBC reported it last week.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ukraine-liberates-robotyne-russia-counteroffensive-rcna102100
>goat shepherds
I didn't know goats could herd sheep
llamas are better at it, and they love to assault & kill coyotes and similar such dangers ... they really are natural shepherds
>another civilian asked if he could bring the car he’d spent his life savings on before the war by driving it out sandwiched between two Bradleys.
Did he get his car out?
New challenger fatal flaw just dropped. These things handle mines worse than American made IFVs
>A Western defence source told the BBC that the British-made and supplied Challenger 2 tank in Ukraine was initially immobilised by a mine.
>That mine explosion caused a fire in the rear fuel tank, at which point the Ukrainian crew of four evacuated the tank to safety
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66716788
If the crew survives, it isn't a fatal flaw.
A simple mine strike becoming a catastrophic loss is a huge flaw weather the crew survived or not
How many Bradleys have seen similar fates after being mine immobilised in this war anon. Please, your gay agenda knows no bounds.
What? Why would you compare mine protection between main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
Show me an MBT that survives a mine well when it reverses into one instead of frontally
I'll wait.
Honest answers please. Why is Ukraine celebrating Robotyne so much? It's a tiny village with an area of 2 square kilometers and pre-war population of 70. How is it any better than the time the Russians spent 3 weeks sieging Pisskey?
Symbolic victory coupled with the excellent performance of an American armored vehicle
It's on a ridgeline that technically lets them see all the way down to the coast, but realistically doesn't due to curvature.
It seals off Tokmok. And a little bit beyond. That's everything right now.
no it does not. It is in the bare max range of cheap dumbfire arty in relation to Tokmak yet ukranians will have to expand the bulkhead before moving valuable artillery that close to the front lines
gotta breach the defensive lines somewhere and taking robotyne actually gets them closer to a strategic goal, putting fire control on the railyards in tokmak
it's better because.. it's just is, ok!?
Its the first big step to moving to Tokmak and taking the big railyard there. Then after that its moving on to Melitopol.
>R8 my b8 m8
10/10 would do again
It's a lynchpin of the main russian defense line.
>the Russians spent 3 weeks sieging Pisskey
That was more like 9 months LOL.
Those two square kilometers are very important square kilometers. It's rather surprising that the vatniks didn't realize that last year and take steps to protect it better. This was a quick collapse of one of the most important battlefield positions in the war, and monke is helpless.
It gets them close enough to shell the critical rail junction at Tokmak
By that account it sounds like the Bradley was employed more in the battle taxi role than the IFV role, which isnt to say its a bad vehicle but doctrinally is the idea of having light skinned vehicles fight alongside the troops they transport an inherently bad idea?
> is the idea of having light skinned vehicles fight alongside the troops they transport an inherently bad idea?
Congrats, you just described the job of an IFV when the tanks aren't around.
>the idea of having light skinned vehicles fight alongside the troops they transport an inherently bad idea?
the M2 isnt exactly thin skinned, it had 14.5mm all-around protection
but it has 30mm autocannon protection with add-on steel armor
and its such a good idea that the pure l battle taxi role is extinct for frontline troops
the US battle taxi is the stryker, which is a hybrid IFV/APC that can fight alongside its dismounts if needed
and the M113s they still have are mostly just used for ambulances, mortar carriers, or the HQ section who will generally not see fighting at al
thank you, fighting to the last ukrainian would be hard without a way to dump them into a meatgrinder efficiently
Weird to see such a well behaved warriortard thread
>that's not even at the first line of defense
"First line of defense" is the shoreline of the Azov Sea at this point.
the infantry told them to gather their things, they were rushed into the Bradleys under constant fire. One woman brought her cat, another civilian asked if he could bring the car he’d spent his life savings on before the war by driving it out sandwiched between two Bradleys.
>F16 (sheer numbers on offer) vs. Gripen (lower maintenance, shorter/less clean runway requirements)
Would they be better served by Merkava, with the additional APC functionality and forward engine placement for futher crew survivability, all things being equal?
>with the additional APC functionality and forward engine placement for futher crew survivability
the rear hatch is not for dismounts
its mostly for resupply in the field, so that ammo doesnt need to enter through the crew hatch and for the crew to be able to escape from the burning vehicle without getting machine gunned
>all things being equal?
120mm gun is still a potent threat
and it has current gen thermals for both gunner and commander
so its still going to be much more useable than a 1980s-era T-72B, even if it isnt the most ideal vehicle
Israel will never give them.
its still in contention thry didnt win crap!
>significantly higher casualties and equipment losses than the Gulf war
>undeclared border conflict
Bait or actual moronbrain?
inb4 the gulf war was also a border conflict and psyop