Gunner COAX Troops!
I thought you guys would appreciate this but my Troop did gunnery in January and my squad leader (M1A1TrkTrror) put together a flicker account of our time out at NTC. During the whole train up I was skeptical of the brad but I’m not going to lie shooting the 25 and the coax gave me a hard on.
We had instructors from Ft. Benning come down every month for about 6 months and get us prepared for gunnery. We did disassembly and assembly of the 25mm, vehicle ID, crew drills, and the COFT (which is a giant video game essentially.) When we went to Irwin we essentially did a typical dry, blank live scenario. Our iterations consisted shooting targets on the move, in an NBC environment, using the hand wheels (in the event the gunners hand station fails), night shoots and shooting moving targets etc. All in all it was a pretty enjoyable experience even though we had to deal with the typical maintenance issues that are involved with the Bradley.
Just an FYI… Bring the Heat Bring the Stupid also posted the flicker account a few months ago but I thought you guys would enjoy it.
Cool guy picture after gunnery
Myself with India 21 Gunner on left
Category: Military issues
Love the Brad. The maintenance and upkeep sucks hard, but when that 25mm starts singing to unpin a pinned down squad, it’s music.
Gunner!
Ambulance in the open. Lawyers dismounted. Load flechette.
Bonus points to anyone who can give me correct range from my position to this Brad:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75641769@N04/6796326774/in/set-72157629485015989
Having been an M1A1 crewman and not familiar with the bradley, other than shooting aboatload of them during training, I’m calling this about 800 meters….
Between 800 and 900 meters
Width of a Brad is about 3.28 meters. Height about 2.97 meters.
Odd pics.
I was a light guy.
Climb the South Shoot of Mt. Tiefort.
You will see the desert tortoise.
It is hot.
My apologies on the @7 post.
I did not enter my handle.
Corrected.
Hope you guys gave that coyote something to eat and tried to make friends with it – they’re just trying to make a living too, you know …
You’re in India troop, is Mangino your FSO, then?
6000 meters if that is a mil reticle with the small hash marks being half a mil
Height of object x 1000 / # of mils
3(m) x 1000 = 3000/.5(mils) = 6000m
I miss gunnery…did at least one as a driver, gunner, and BC. I liked my light time too but there’s something about all that firepower that kind of makes your dick hard! Have you had a tow missile range yet?
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My phone just spazzed out and left a quotation mark
I just came back from my second NTC rotation. Unfortunately I went with a sapper company so we did a lot of dismounted shit. The first was with the 3rd ID and I loved being mechanized. Nothing like getting a ride instead of walking.
Each hash mark is 10 mills.
@10 The LT is a good guy. Went through the NET when we got our M3A2 ODS Brads, but he couldn’t do much on account of he still had to attend his branch schooling.
Sorry, each NUMBERED hash mark is 10 mils.
#3… My first uneducated civilian guess this morning was 2100 metres, but I can’t remember how I came to that conclusion. Now I’m just curious what the distance actually is. 3200 metres?
Around 650 meters. Take the width of the Bradley, 3.28m, divided by the observed width in mils, aprox 5 mils, and multiply by 1000 to get your range.
3.28/5 = .656; .656*1000 = 656 meters.
Well my math sure sucks now. Proves the adage “You don’t use it, you lose it.” Bah… maybe it is just a logic failure.
I’m used to looking through an M1A1 sight….we have this cool “laser thingy” push a button and voila! We have range. CDAT’s at their finest!
Without checking my FM 23-1, and remember from my 1st Cav gunning days (2007)….
Width (approx 3.3m) divided by range (5 mils) times 1000 = 660 meters.
…Then I just saw your calculations. I skipped to the bottom before I read it.
I think my old BC would be proud.
Nothing like getting an exact range from a FLIR, though. Watching an insurgent fart through white heat, then laying a few HE rounds on his glowing AK barrel.
@21 The M2A2/M3A2 ODS and ODS SA variants have an LRF, with the “wizz wheel” as a backup for ranging the weapon system.
Range estimation through binos is still a skill any combat arms soldier should have.