
In short, impossible to tell for sure without more data points, but it's quite possible that you just got very unlucky. While it is unknown at the moment how the Bradleys heading to Ukraine will be outfitted, the M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, the second-newest variant of the more than 6,000 Bradleys fielded by the. This would also explain the track damage. Such a hit might not penetrate the fighting compartment at all, but rather cause a "through and through," with the penetration jet punching through the front glacis, and then immediately out the side of the vehicle. If it's happening consistently, that's another matter.Īs to the instant case, I don't know if CMSF models hit location to this degree of accuracy, but it looks like the round impacts on the upper left corner of the front glacis, more or less flat to the ground, but at an outward angle, away from the vehicle's centerline. So I don't think you have all that much to complain about, based on one isolated incident. Luck in war is a capricious thing, and every once in a while a Bradley probably would survive a 122mm HEAT hit. You also can't really draw any conclusions from a single incident. All that matters is where the round hits, and at what angle. By this count, 1,220 had been destroyed, 114 abandoned and 542 captured by Ukrainian. With a HEAT round, range doesn't really matter at all. As of May 24, Russia had lost 1,982 tanks since February 24, 2022, according to Dutch open-source outlet Oryx.
