BMPs are a lot more mobile due to being lighter (about half the weight of the Bradley), make smaller targets, easier to repair in the field there, got a better drivetrain, are actually amphibious (look up "M2 Bradley drowned" on Google), got superior armor, are cheaper to produce, got a lot more of them, and the soldiers already know how to drive them so there's no learning curve.
Again, should've sent a few F150s instead of the Bradleys, at least those can be easily sold to Polish farmers.
> Superior armor
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA Oh my nigger. My absolute vatnik sucking, pig-fucking, vodka-brained vatnigger. In what world? They don't even stop a ma deuce. This is some real cope.
> Amphibious
They have wading snorkles and don't instantly flood, not truly aquatic. I can't rmemeber the term for limited ops, I believe it was riparian.
> Cheaper
> More
I'll give you those. Soviets cranked them out because they were filled with expendable conscripts. If they had more IFVs than the capitalist pigs had rounds, they'd win.
Here's what the Americans said about it in 2001, calling it an exploding coffin:
https://www.g2mil.com/Bradley.htm
Again, my retarded vatnigger, that is because of IEDs. The Bradley's are fast for armored vehicles but that's one hell of a curve. The lacked the top speed of a humvee to possibly just blow through an IED (and the view), and they lacked the armor of Abrams to 'did you feel that?'. Bradleys, because of their comparative light weight, could be flipped over, but unlike a Humvee, nothing sort of a recovery vehicle was getting it right side up. Plus the ammo for the bushmaster made a burning Bradley dangerous to approach, and they were buttoned up. A burning bradley is not a good place to be, but they aren't supposed to be going through urban cooridors.
The Iraqis didn't have any IFVs, just burried mines. Bradleys were used beause they didn't crumble under RPGs
The issue is that they always end up being used as light tanks
Light tanks? they end up being used as heavy tanks because retarded officers see "Armor" and their brains cease their limited functioning.
Personally I don't really know why modern armies are so against light tanks. If it were up to me I'd design a light tank that was specifically built for urban warfare.
The reason two fold. Firstly, well "urban warfare" and "tank" don't mix. But forgetting that, the requirements for "urban warfare" and "light tank" really don't mix. Take the article posted earlier that none of you read, about the Bradley getting IED'd. You need your Urban fighting vehicle to be fast, small, but also needs to be resistant to anything an infantryman can carry.
Additionally, if you are doing a light tank for urban ops, you need to have excellent sight lines. This countraindicates the need for strong, beefy armor.
When you try to compromise you end up with shit like the AMX10.
There's also the human factor; M60 tanks in Hue during tet shrugged off RPGs like they were nothing, the NVA/VC had nothing that could stop them. The CREW on the other hand, would often come back to base after missions concussed and with burst eardrums.
The reason second is civie fags. The use of big guns inside a city, even at the smaller end of the scale for "big gun", get the Eurofags of the ICC into an absolute froth.