‘Tank’ Review: Bradley IFV

While technically not a tank by the literary definition, the Bradley has armor, treads, and a turret with a big gun. This vehicle is the center of a lot of misinformation. As the subject of the comedy movie Pentagon Wars, it was lambasted as a project with massive cost overruns that didn’t even work. Almost everything about the movie is wrong- which sucks, because its a pretty entertaining movie. The vehicle itself is a knockout.

Designed for crew survivability, its proven itself in action in Ukraine where, even during the most catastrophic detonations, the crew and infantry inside make it out alive. The Russian analogue, the BMP-2, in comparison, sees an astonishingly low survival rate in comparison.

Anecdotally speaking, any footage from the war shown of a BMP-2 being destroyed does not typically show the entire crew escaping. This comparison alone makes the Bradley a hit in my books, but the reason it is possibly my favorite armored vehicle is the advertisement that was created for it in the 80s. See below-