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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SunTracker on December 30, 2003, 09:00:03 PM

Title: Pentagon Wars
Post by: SunTracker on December 30, 2003, 09:00:03 PM

HBO or Showtime has been showing "Pentagon Wars" recently.  Its a movie about the making of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.  Everything in the movie shows the BFV in a bad light.  From the introduction of a turret, to the decreased crew load, addition of anti-tank missles (ok, that is a bit too much maybe).

So I decided to do a google search on the BFV.  I could not find much besides basic performance statistics on it.  I did find that they are being fitted with special armor that stops rpgs though (Rafael makes this armor).

Can anyone tell me how the BFV did in both Gulf Wars, and how it compares to the Russian BMP?

Title: Pentagon Wars
Post by: Dago on December 30, 2003, 11:05:36 PM

Overall, the Bradley recieved good reviews from the personnel using them, but areas that would benefit from improvement were noted.  This would be expected from a new weapons system as substantial as the Bradley.

You can read about it here:

http://www.gao.gov/

look for this document:

http://www.gao.gov:8765/cs.html?url=http%3A//161.203.16.4/d31t10/145879.pdf&qt=bradley&col=&n=4


dago