Air combat maneuvers f 15c pdf movie#
Air combat maneuvers f 15c pdf series#

The three most important layers of the survivability onion come before 'don't get penetrated' and Bradley has proven to be very good at those. The Bradley was designed to survive 14.5mm HMG fire. I had some hope that this biographer wouldn't take Burton's claims at face value, but alas.

Air combat maneuvers f 15c pdf movie#

I believe this was the basis for the movie The Pentagon Wars which I haven't seen. Really makes you wonder what procurement is actually about. But the fumes had hardly dissipated before the Army slaughtered the animals without examining them' They jammed pigs and sheep inside the Bradley to test the effects of fumes after a direct hit.

When early tests detected large amounts of toxic gases inside the Bradley, the Army simply stopped measuring the gas. He tried to use persuasion and logic with Army officials, but to no avail. “If you let them get away with this, they will try something else.” Burton still believed his job gave him the authority to force the Army to live up to its word. “What are you going to do about this, Jim?” Boyd asked. This guaranteed that even if the underpowered Rumanian warheads penetrated the Bradley’s protective armor, no explosion would result. To further insure that the Bradley appeared impregnable, the Army filled the internal fuel tanks with water rather than with diesel fuel. The Army buried the fact that the Rumanian weapons had warheads far smaller than those used by the Soviets. But the first of the “realistic” tests consisted of firing Rumanian-made rockets at the Bradley rather than Soviet-made ones. So Burton sent the Army’s ballistic research laboratory $500,000 to test the Bradley, and he insisted the testing use real Soviet weapons. The thinnest of aluminum armor surrounded it. It was packed with ammunition, fuel, and people.

'The Bradley was a tragedy waiting to happen. An excerpt from the craziness that ensued:

Air combat maneuvers f 15c pdf series#

There was an outrageous series of events around procurement of the Bradley fighting vehicle. It also talks about, what I'd at best call regulatory capture. The Boyd biography by Robert Coram tells the story of the battle between the Fighter Mafia and the Bomber Generals.