{"id":35866,"date":"2013-05-29T07:06:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35866"},"modified":"2013-05-29T07:06:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:06:56","slug":"a-new-greener-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35866","title":{"rendered":"A new, greener Bradley?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> writes the Army is considering buying a hybrid Bradley which runs on diesel but is assisted with batteries for power. The expected weight is 70 tons, which the Post says is double the weight of the current Brad, but that’s wrong, as far as I know. I was one of the first Bradley squad leaders and as far as I know, the IFV weighs 26 tons, so a 70 ton Brad would be nearly three times the weight of the initial configuration.<\/p>\n

In the article, the author calls the Infantry Fighting Vehicle a tank, luckily his readers straightened him out. It’s like calling an AR rifle a machine gun like the media is so fond of doing. We infantrymen stop listening to people who call an Infantry Fighting Vehicle a tank. We’re not tankers, we’re infantrymen first.<\/p>\n

So back to the Bradley; I remember when the Bradley was first issued to TO&E units in 1983 after years of testing and we still received the systems with technical and design problems, so I can only imagine the problems that will handed to infantrymen when you’re talking about an entirely new power train system. When we got the Bradley, we had been accustomed to the M113 battle taxi which had no complicated weapons system to maintain and employ, a relatively new type of power train, fire suppression systems, fueling system, new weapons, etc… In other words, it was like moving from a bi-plane to the space shuttle. We were in training mode for over a year.<\/p>\n

When Toyota rolled out it’s Prius, there were problems with the relatively uncomplicated system, it had problems which appear to have been fixed, but it seems to me that a 70-ton IFV would have even more problems with it’s hybrid power system than a soldier under fire, needing some organic firepower would care to deal with.<\/p>\n

I do, however, like the idea of a “stealthy” Bradley, if it could arrive at the battle on battery power without the usual noise associated with the current diesel engine. But, I’m pretty sure that the problems with the new power train, and the Army’s traditional inability to work out problems before the vehicle is handed over to the troops, would outweigh any advantage like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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