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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
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Subject: Re: Armoured Vehicles in the Gulf -- APCs (6 of 12)
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Date: 4 Feb 91 07:02:12 GMT
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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)

US: BRADLEY, M-2 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle
Used by:
	USA.
Description:  After some years of vassilation, a russian-style turreted IFV
	with the same mobility as the M1 Abrams tank. In service 1981.
Stats:
	3 crew, 7 infantrymen, NBC protection
	3m high, 3.2m wide, 6m long, 23,000 kg
	66kph, 480km range, 500hp, non-amphibious
	1 * 25mm cannon, 2* TOW ATGW launcher, 1 * 7.62mm mg
Variants:
  	M-3 Cavalry vehicle, Multiple-launch rocket system.
Comparative values (from Dunnigan, ``How to Make War'': a Merkava has a
firepower and protection of 10):
	firepower: 8
	protection: 5
	comfort: 6
	ground pressure: 145
	hp/wt: 22
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James F. Dunnigan, ``How to Make War'', New York (William Morrow) 1988.
Charles Messinger, ``Tanks and other Armoured Vehicles'', London (Penguin), 1990.
R.G. Lee, ``Introduction to Battlefield Weapons Systems'', Oxford (Pergamon), 1981 [UF 500 L43]
Richard E. Simpkin, `Antitank'', Oxford (Pergamon), 1982
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