>Was the bradley and the IFV concept in general a complete waste of resources. Would armies have been better off just with Tanks and and APC familes variants
What was originally designed and even asked for, was a slightly heavier and bulkier generalist platform that could then have specialized models for certain tasks
a straight up replacement for the Gavinator, slayer of Commies
instead, the retards in the Pentagon fucked around until all they were acquiring was a specialized anti-armor vehicle with zero room for any other variants, because the base vehicle was already specialized
the stupid fucks
and on top of that, Aluminimumnimum armor, which is dogshit and pointless, since the damned thing can not in good faith be called amphibious and struggles with air deployment, and its not just RPGs and big boi explosives, its 20-30mm HEAT rounds that might only cause limited casualties otherwise
and to top it all off, its overbudget, and the Kikes are already ordering there won speicalized version that isnt a deathtrap
The Bradley to start with is basically a new age Tank Destroyer with Light Anti Armor capability with its cannon, and enough men to use infantry ATGMs, then there is the B3, which is EVEN MORE in that direction
Then the Pentagon Wars happens, the real events, then the book, then the movie
And what gets lost in all of this is that the idea, and the REASON baldman is pissy, isn't because he hates a specialized Armored Division version, its because that should have been built later, from standard hulls, and the standard would have focused on moving people and being everywhere and doing many, many different things
And having room for modification without upending the factory floor that produces the BASE model
So imagine Dodge only produces 3500 RAM MEGAPOWERCAB Duelly 4x4(6x6), and attempts to sell that to everyone
That the problem, and it gets glossed over.