Jan 19, 2024
47th Mechanized Brigade/Defense Ministry of Ukraine
- A new photo shows the Ukrainian crew of the Bradley that fought and defeated a Russian T-90M tank.
- A video of the battle went viral this week, showing the Bradley fighting vehicle pummeling the tank.
- Putin has previously touted the T-90M as “the world’s best tank.”
A newly released photo shows the Ukrainian crew and the US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle that fought and won against one of Russia’s top tanks.
The photo comes on the heels of a viral video earlier this week depicting an intense battle between a Bradley and a Russian T-90M, a heavily armored tank Russian President Vladimir Putin once bragged was “the world’s best.”
The Defense Ministry of Ukraine shared on Friday the photo, which came courtesy of the 47th Mechanized Brigade, of the Ukrainian M2A2 Bradley IFV crew responsible for defeating the Russian T-90M on the battlefield. This is them.
Recently, a video of a Ukrainian M2A2 Bradley IFV destroying a russian T-90M tank went viral.
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) January 19, 2024
Here are that Bradley's crew members, Serhii and Oleksandr.
True legends!
📷: 47th Mechanized Brigade pic.twitter.com/7FX9R434Hv
Their fight against the tank was caught on video, which was shared by Ukraine earlier this week. In the video, the T-90M is seen taking heavy, repeated fire from the Bradley’s 25mm chain gun.
The battle between the lightly armored combat vehicle and the heavily armored Russian tank armed with a powerful 125mm cannon highlights how valuable the Bradley can be on the battlefield. The vehicle first fielded in the 1980s can take on even modern tanks.
There are three things you can watch forever. Like this Ukrainian M2 Bradley IFV obliterating a «no-analogue» russian T-90M tank.
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) January 18, 2024
📹: 47th Mechanized Brigade pic.twitter.com/4NwvEryE3Y
“Everyone has seen the video of how a Bradley fighting vehicle destroys a Russian T-90M “breakthrough” tank. However, no one has yet seen what these warriors look like with smelly nerves and thirst for victory,” Ukraine’s 47th Mechanized Brigade wrote in a Telegram post with the photo of the Bradley crew.
The post identified the men as Serhii, on the left, and Oleksandr, on the right. Before the war, one was a teacher, and the other was a motorcycle engineer, per a translation of the post.
“And now it is a powerful team, the strength of which lies in synergy,” the post read.
The video of the fight between the Bradley and T-90M is the latest documenting the devastating fighting happening in Avdiivka, a city on the eastern front near occupied Donetsk. Since last October, Russia has been waging a vicious, costly offensive here, hoping to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses. So far, it has been unable to do so.
https://www.businessinsider.com/photo-ukrainian-bradley-crew-that-beat-top-russian-tank-video-2024-1
The deeds of this very brave and determined crew and their awesome Bradley deserves another article. What an intensive firework they inundated the ranch tank with! Simply splendid!
We must send many more Bradleys to Ukraine ASAP!
The Bradley had hardly a scratch on it. The orcs must have been shitting themselves inside their steel coffin, but they got lucky, they only suffered a rotating turret, and not one sent into space.
Yes, they were lucky … the roaches, I mean. It’s their luck that those 25mm rounds can’t penetrate thick armor, or their turret would’ve rotated like a carousel, but lifted off like a rocket.
Just watched a good video where the guys in the Bradley are explaining how they attacked the tank.
Thanks for sharing, foccusser. A very interesting video.
In the video, Dan mentions Ukraine’s purposeful method to recruit older men, as an example, for their experience in mechanics. It makes a lot of sense.
This reminds me of when my wife and I were in the Carpathians a number of years ago. Our car wouldn’t start. It turned out that the alternator was frozen. It wouldn’t budge, not matter what was tried. A local mechanic and his son, who had an overfilled garage as a workshop, spent the larger part of the day to put in another alternator, but one from a totally different make and model. They did a superb job and dirt cheap. I doubled the money they asked for because for me, it was too cheap. The repair not only got us back to Kyiv, but worked perfectly for months afterward, until my next visit, when I had the right alternator put in. The mechanics in Kyiv said it would’ve lasted for the life of the car.
Anyway, these are the kinds of men an army needs that is dealing with countless types of vehicles from across the Western world.
Good video, indeed, thanks, foccusser. However, there’s a misunderstanding in it: The narrator praises German instructors, certainly because the training took part in Germany. But the Bundeswehr doesn’t have any Bradleys, they’re using Marders and Pumas instead. Most propably, it were US instructors teaching the Ukrainians, at a training ground of the US forces in Germany. Kudos to them, job well done, with impressive results!