{"id":51312,"date":"2023-04-25T13:44:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T11:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=51312"},"modified":"2025-04-25T01:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T23:19:16","slug":"bradley-ods-sa-this-is-the-new-infantry-fighting-vehicle-of-the-ukrainian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/25\/bradley-ods-sa-this-is-the-new-infantry-fighting-vehicle-of-the-ukrainian-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley ODS-SA: this is the new infantry fighting vehicle of the Ukrainian Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On January 6, the United States announced<\/a> the delivery to Ukraine of 50 M-2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles<\/strong>, a batch which was expanded thirteen days later with 59 more M-2A2s<\/a>. In total, we are talking about 109 modern infantry fighting vehicles<\/strong> that would serve to reinforce the Ukrainian counteroffensive against the Russian invaders. <\/p>\n

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An M-2A2 ODS-SA Bradley. This model appeared in 2003, incorporating many improvements over the M-2A2 ODS (Photo: BAE Systems).<\/div>\n

The Bradley is a family of track-based armored vehicles that went into mass production in 1981<\/strong>, with two variants: the M-2 infantry fighting vehicle and the M-3 cavalry fighting vehicle. Both are equipped with an M242 Bushmaster 25mm cannon, an M-240C coaxial machine gun and two TOW anti-tank guided missile launchers<\/strong>. The exterior differences between both variants were minimal. The main difference is that the M-3 had the four embrasures that the M-2 had in its troop compartment plugged. The M-2 is prepared to carry 6 equipped soldiers<\/strong> in that compartment, while the M-3 only carries two, leaving the rest of the space for TOW missile reloads.<\/p>\n

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The M-2A2 ODS-SA Bradley is a digitized vehicle and one of the most advanced of its class in NATO (Photo: BAE Systems).<\/div>\n

Subsequently, other variants have been made <\/strong>, such as the M-4 C2V and Bradley BCV command vehicles, the M-6 Linebacker (equipped with four Stinger surface-to-air missile launchers instead of TOWs), The M-7 B-FiST artillery support vehicle, the Bradley ESV engineer vehicle and the AMPV armored personnel carrier, intended to replace the aging M-113s.<\/p>\n

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A Pennsylvania National Guard M-2A2 ODS-SA Bradley at Fort Indiantown on March 22, 2014 (Photo: Pennsylvania National Guard).<\/div>\n

The Ukrainian Army has received the M-2A2 ODS-SA version<\/a>, an improved version of the M-2A2 ODS.<\/strong> The latter was created in 1993 based on the lessons learned in the Gulf War. Over previous versions of the M-2, the M-2A2 ODS included improvements<\/strong> such as a laser range finder, GPS navigation, a thermal duct sight, reactive armor, and electronic transmission.<\/p>\n

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An M-2A2 ODS-SA Bradley from the Pennsylvania National Guard at a presentation at Fort Indiantown on February 28, 2014 (Photo: Pennsylvania National Guard).<\/div>\n

The M-2A2 ODS-SA, released in 2003, incorporates many improvements over the M-2A2 ODS<\/strong>, starting with digitized weapons, driving and control systems, titanium-enhanced armor on the upper superior, an inertial navigation system, a new IBAS viewer, a BTF antenna and an improved DVE camera for the driver. The Bradleys received by Ukraine are among the most advanced infantry fighting vehicles in NATO service.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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M-2A2 ODS-SA Bradley vehicles being shipped at the Port of Charleston, South Carolina, bound for Ukraine in early February 2023 (Photo: Mezha<\/a>).<\/div>\n

In recent days images of the Ukrainian Army's Bradley ODS-SA have started to surface.<\/strong> The vehicles arrived in Ukraine in the desert scheme used by the US Army. Below these lines, a photo published on April 19 by the Ukrainian Telegram channel DeepState<\/a> in which we see a desert-pattern M-2A2 ODS-SA Bradley in the Ukraine<\/strong>, alongside two M-55S tanks donated by Slovenia.<\/p>\n

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On April 16, the Ukrainian outlet Euromaidan Press published this video<\/a> broadcast on the same day by the Telegram channel Mysiagin<\/a> in which we see two Bradleys with scheme desert in Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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American-made infantry fighting vehicles M2 Bradley are already in use in Ukraine<\/p>\n

The US provided Ukraine with 109 Bradleys.
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— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) April 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n