Bradley’s don’t carry a ground-mount TOW systems, just the twin TOW box mounted on the side of the turret. Rarely will you see a TOW in ground mount configuration.
You could get the Tamiya M1046 and leave all the TOW parts off and make an M1042 Armament Carrier with armored doors, w/o winch; or leave the winch on and have an M1043 Armament Carrier with armored doors. Either an M2 .50 cal., M240B 7.62 MG, Mk19 40mm grenade launcher, or M249 SAW 5.56 mm light MG could be mounted on top.
The 3ID declas in the M1046 kit are for the Brigade Recon Troop (BRT); E TRP, 9th CAV, for 2nd BDE. Here are the other units in 2 BDE that the BRT would have operated with, the first 2-digit number is the unit ID # series that would be on the sides of the vehicles.
Echelon makes two sets for 1-64 AR Abrams and one set for 3-69 AR Abrams. Don’t know about the Brads. I think all the Echelon sheets are for M1s. You could modify the Echelon sets to be for the IN Bn. All you would have to do is change the BN bumper number to 3I 3-15I and you could use most of the other markings such as QTA draw grid numbers, modified to IN BN as opposed to AR Bn: different Company than the M1; and large numbers to make up the Bn ID #s. Shouldn’t be too hard.
so i can pick between the 1-64 and 3-69? cool. thanks alot, but just to clarify, IN Bn is Infantry Battalion, and AR Bn is armored battalion? are there M1s in Infantry battalions? hehe sorry were kinda having our own chat now.
Go up to near the start of this discussion. Infantry (IN) Bns are pure Bradleys and Armor (AR) Bns are pure Abrams. For combat, they Task Organize, that is, they swap a tank company in the AR Bn for a Bradley company, and vice versa in an IN Bn. They further task organize companies by trading platoons as well. This gives each Company a mix of Bradleys and tanks to go against any threat out there. It also gives the AR Bn some infantrymen to hold ground as well. When they do this, the Tanks will have AR Bn bumper #s and the Bradleys will still have their IN Bn bumper #s.
If you go with 3-69 AR, the decals for the Taniya HMMWV will not be totally correct since 3-69 AR is in 1st BDE with the following units:
This would work with the decals for the Tamiya M2A2 ODS kit though, since it has 2-7 IN decals.
Sorry to keep confusing you, but there are many options out there. It just depends on what you want t model and how accurate you want to be. The average viewer will not know the difference if the units are not in the same BDE or the bumper numbers are not correct.