The American-made M-2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle is not a tank. It’s a battle taxi for infantry.
But with a little luck and a lot of crew prowess, the 30-ton, 11-person M-2-with its 25-millimeter auto-cannon, turret-mounted TOW anti-tank missiles, and side-mounted reactive armor-is more than a match for even the best Russian-made tank.
This isn’t hype.
In a recent skirmish on the outskirts of Avdiivka in northeastern Ukraine, a pair of M-2s belonging to the Ukrainian army’s 47th Mechanized Brigade-the sole user of the roughly 200 M-2s the United States donated to Ukraine-tag-teamed a Russian army T-90 tank. And wrecked it.
The brief, brutal fight-one of hundreds that have raged in the three months since two Russian field armies with 40,000 troops first attempted to surround the 10,000-strong Ukrainian garrison in Avdiivka-was observed by a Ukrainian drone.
In the drone’s video, which circulated online on Friday, a pair of M-2s engages a single T-90.
On paper, an M-2-even two M-2s-is no match for a 51-ton, three-person T-90 with its 125-millimeter smoothbore gun and hundreds of millimeters of composite armor.
The T-90 gets the first shot-and misses. After that, the M-2s out-maneuver and out-shoot the T-90. One M-2 peppers the tank with 25-millimeter rounds as it speeds past. A second M-2, rolling the opposite direction, takes over where the first leaves off-and pours auto-cannon rounds into the tank at close range.
An M-2’s auto-cannon fires one-pound shells at a rate of 200 per minute and a velocity of 3,600 feet per second. Paired with high-fidelity optics and accurate fire controls, the 25-millimeter gun is brutally effective.
In one clash outside Avdiivka, a single M-2 struck and likely destroyed three Russian MT-LB armored tractors in the span of just 30 seconds.
A T-90 is much better protected than an MT-LB is, but it doesn’t matter. The Bradley’s unrelenting fire apparently kills the T-90’s driver and commander and leaves the tank badly damaged and uncontrollable.
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