I just got some pics of a (I believe) M2A2 or A3 Bradley. Anyway, this is a brand new Bradley from the factory and I didn’t want to hold the truck driver up too long so I only took a few. Maybe 10 or so. Anyway, I will post them here tomorrow if anybody would like me to.
I didn’t get too detailed but he let me climb up on top and I got a few of the top front. I didn’t get the rear. Maybe I’ll do that on the next one. These things are oversize so they can only operate in the daytime (trucks that is).
I couldn’t wait till tomorrow so without further ado…
This I guess is the exhaust pipe. You will know better than me [:D]
This was on the right side kinda looking up into the front of the turret
The bottom right back of the turret
This thing is looking at the front, some kind of small doors
Sorry, didn’t catch this till too late. Twist your head left, top of the tracks left side [:D]
And this is the right side same thing Sorry[:D]
And that sucker weighs 102,000 lbs. You can see it in the background of one of those pics. Man I love this camera!!
I work at the scale complex on I-81S in TN. These trucks hauling these things come through almost everyday. There was a weird tracked vehicle with shuttered armored windows that came through yesterday, don’t know what it was. I didn’t have my camera yesterday either. I am going to start bringing it with me when my wife dosen’t need it at home.
That sounds like the MLRS or the command and control vehicle based on the MLRS chassis. The MLRS chassis uses a lengthened Bradley chassis so it is reasonable that where Bradleys are being produced, the MLRS chassis would be as well.
Those are excellent photos[tup]. You know the funny thing about it, is that if someone built a model of a Bradley as clean as that, we’d all chime in how it needs to be dirtier.[:D]
That’s an excellent shot looking up under the right side of the turret. That would certainly unequivocally end the debate on the 1/72 Dragon kit, which it turns out is actually correct. If you had been able to post these pics several months ago, I wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of fixing my Brad and plugging up the hole in the underside if the turret [banghead].
Now a question for you Army guys who actually know the deal is. How can there be a giant hole in the turret like that? Does that actually lead inside to the interior of the turret where the crew are located or is there an intervening bulkhead so that the opening just leads to a little separate compartment in the front?
As long as you prefaced it as a new vehicle and maybe put it on the flatbed, it would explain how clean it is. Actually, when the vehicles are not in the field, they are kept very clean and sent to the paint booth regularly to maintain them.
The opening in the right front turret does not go into the crew compartment. There is an inner wall that separates them. The area is open to allow access to the coax 7.62mm M240G MG. There is also a door that opens up from the inside of the crew area that allows access to the coax MG.
Hey just a question, are the wheels rubber? if so do they jsut wear down while in the field? because they look painted, and this would save a lot of people from paintstakingly painting them…or me at least…
Yes, the road wheels are rubber. When painted at the factory, they just spray the whole wheel at once, no real taping. When it runs around a bit, the paint falkes off the rubber portion and you have the familiar rubber-treaded road wheel.
