Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: cfreund@PICA.ARMY.MIL (CCL-L) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Secondary Armament Message-ID: <1991Jun20.020739.1573@cbnews.cb.att.com> Date: 20 Jun 91 02:07:39 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.cb.att.com (william.a.thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 23 Approved: military@att.att.com From: "Charles T. Freund" (CCL-L) > They later settled on the 30mm M-25 Bushmaster cannon used on >the Bradley as the best choice for the co-ax weapon. The Bushamaster used on the Bradley is the M242 25mm Chain gun. The only other weapon in competition for the Bradley (that I recall) was the XM241, also a 25mm weapon. True, the firepower available from the M242 would make for a formidible coax weapon, but the gun fires a 25x137mm round. The M242 is the primary weapon (gun) in the Bradley, with only 300 ready rounds; and that is without having to compete with a main gun for space. It would have to be quite some turret to house both a M242 AND a main gun system. As for hosing down bushes with a 25mm (or 30mm) round, that is what the M242 was originally designed to do. Rapid fire 25mm HE rounds do just fine. (BTW - the Abrams uses M240's rather than M60's for its 7.62mm armaments) Charles T. Freund ARDEC, CCAC, Picatinny Arsenal SMCAR-CCL-LG, Ground Weapons Team