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M-3 Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicle

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M3A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Systems waits while personnel with the 2nd Infantry Div, 4th Chemical Co, finish pumping water from a creek into an M-923 5-ton truck rigged with an 800-gallon tank, during a practice Nuclear, Biological and Chemical exercise, Camp Casey, Korea, 9 Oct 1998

After a 1972 Army RFP for a new Infantry Fighting Vehicle, FMC Corporation developed this vehicle, the XM723, loosly based on the USMC Amtrac, rather than the M113. The Bradley Fighting Vehicle was ultimately derived from the XM723 prototype in the form of the XM2 and XM3 Bradley prototypes, standardized in the 1980s. XM723 operated with a crew of 3 while carrying 9 Infantry. The turret main gun was a 20mm cannon with a 7.62mm coaxial machine gun. The hull was laminated steel/aluminium armor. Photo at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, circa 1976.

U.S. Army Third Infantry Division M2/M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles sit in positon on an Army roll-on, roll-off discharge facility (causeway) for transport to the Exercise Native Atlas base camp, after driving off the USNS Seay, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Camp Pendleton, CA, April 2002.

2d Squadron, 4th Cavalry (24th Infantry Division) live fire exercise. M-3 Bradley cavalry fighting vehicle awaiting instructions to begin run down range, 19 December 1990.

A row of M-3 Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicles sit at a staging area at the Military Sealift Command, Port of Savannah, 11 March 2002, ready for deployment to the National Training Center in California.

M-3 Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicle Photo Gallery

M-3A3 Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicle firing its 25-millimeter chain gun. The Bradley and its crew were on combat security patrol outside Ad Dwr, Iraq, assigned to Charlie Troop, 1st Battalion, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, 17 November 2004.

A U.S. Army soldier ground guides a M-3 Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicle at the Korea Training Center, Republic of Korea, 25 October 1998. The Bradley is attached to C Troop of the 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment.