Air Force unveils photos of B-21 Raider in flight as nuclear stealth bomber moves closer to deployment

[jmowreader]

44. You know how they got the Bradley?

They first wanted to just build an armored personnel carrier that can keep up with the M1 Abrams. That's a logical goal - tanks and infantry work together, and if you've got a tank that can go 60mph cross-country and an APC that can go 25, you have a massive problem.

Then someone in the Pentagon found out about the Soviet BMP-1 and said, "let's make one of these, just without any communist parts in it." The result, in COL James Burton's words, was a troop carrier that can't carry troops.

If someone would have slipped them a picture of a Soviet MT-LB instead, we wouldn't be in this situation. The MT-LB is a REALLY good vehicle, and it doesn't have all the "combat systems" - guns, missiles, whatever you want - on it.