UBC World News - US "concerned" over reports of lost Bradley IFV

[Frye]

How did the rebels get the bradley down from the tree we got it stuck in?

[SSG (Ret) J. Hart]

Or the enemy with access to our comms, or Blue Force Tracker or intel about our company size, assets and our rules of engagement....

This is what scares me. They could plan horrible ambushes and we would have no idea.

[Frye]

You weren't the one who got the damn thing stuck in a tree, or flipped it over a squad of infantry

[Brueske]

technically the radios are encrypted, so couldnt we just change the encryption codes for all of our radios? if they have different encryption then they cant listen in on our traffic

[SSG (Ret) J. Hart]

technically the radios are encrypted, so couldnt we just change the encryption codes for all of our radios? if they have different encryption then they cant listen in on our traffic

They would still probably have access to CTAB though, which is a world of problems in and of itself.

[SGT (Ret) Blakeslee]

I'm not sure if I'm more worried about them using the Bradley against us as a weapon or if I'm more worried about all of the information they just recovered from the Bradley.  Wondering what nasty surprises this could lead to on the battlefield.

Especially since they apparently have a blue-force tracker.

[Harmon]

Good read LT Dale.

[SSG (Ret) Kang]

No way in hell they sneaked in behind Spartan 1 to capture that.

1-4 will go out and destroy that with Javelins.

[Hopp]

2-week moratorium on Bradley's leaving the wire while we hunt this thing down...if they don't know how to turn off the BFT we can track it down and kill it.

[Songs]

2-week moratorium on Bradley's leaving the wire while we hunt this thing down...if they don't know how to turn off the BFT we can track it down and kill it.

My thoughts exactly.  The Bradley's BFT set up is much like a personal CTAB Device, so it also gives itself its own unique ID.  In the case of the rebel's theft this is a two-edged sword, they will see our structures and movements yes.  But everytime they turn that on we will also see their location.  Which hopefully, they'd only trust that piece of equipment with some of their higher ups. 

[1LT (Ret) N. Williams]

Brawler needs to try out new drivers apparently...

[VandeVord]

They just need to learn how to destroy their assets properly.


They can carry a few thermite grenades to simulate they slagged sensitive materials and the engine and whatever is vital.

[SGT (Ret) T. Cummings]

[SFC (Ret) M. Brewer]

Brawler needs to try out new drivers apparently...

Don't get too tough on the driver. As a former Bradley driver, those things have some wonky physics on certain types of terrain. If you read the vehicle commander's report, there were some technical issues with being able to control the vehicle.  The vehicle has gotten much better over time I think but crazy stuff happened from time to time.  Some pretty good lol's in this video back when I was with Brawler.  The comment about the CPT in the first part of the video is from one of these incidents happening a week earlier where we almost ran him over...But it shows how unpredictable and "un-immersive" the Bradley could be at times. I'm guessing that something like this happened on that hillside. 

<a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7IH-QKmK0c" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7IH-QKmK0c</a>     

As far as the vehicle's destruction goes, in reading the report it looks like there was some miscommunication about exactly when that was to happen.  Just goes to show, now that we're deployed actions and mis-actions by any one of us in the field can have major repercussions for the entire unit.

This does make the story line a lot more interesting tho...

[Rigger]

They just need to learn how to destroy their assets properly.


They can carry a few thermite grenades to simulate they slagged sensitive materials and the engine and whatever is vital.

Why destroy the Bradley when it's 300m away from a friendly occupied Airfield and there is a friendly Platoon dug in on the other side of it over looking the valley it was left in?
I'm sure it was left intact with the intention that one of the "supporting assets" at the airfield would secure it.
If anything, a squad should have been detached to secure it until the mostly intact Bradley could be "recovered". But what Task Force leader wants to tell 10 of his guys they have to sit out for the rest of the Operation because ARMA decided that trees could throw Bradleys?