None of those photos will be what the fielded version looks like, as it will be based on the M2A4 chassis.
Time to buy another Magic Factory kit! 
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Well, this is something you don’t see every day in Las Vegas, a Bradley southbound on the 95, on a flatbed with no tracks or rear ramp. Wish I could have gotten a better pic, but it was a real derelict.
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Heading to an Army Depot for repair/refit perhaps? If it’s going I-95 SB out of Las Vegas; it may go to Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, TX. Red River is a major repair and upgrade facility for the M2 Bradley.
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I figured something like that, maybe coming from Sierra Depot? It had a lot of spray paint markings on the side, but I couldn’t get pics, almost wrecked taking that one!
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Most likely. My guess is that the vehicle was tagged as “deadlined” and then was stripped at Bde Support for useable parts to keep other vehicles in the green (normal procedure to save money and keep other vehicles operational without having to wait for new parts to arrive), then the husk sent to be rebuilt.
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Ahead of their upcoming M109A7, Rye Field has announced 2 separate sets of T161 Tracks that can be used on Bradleys (A2 ODS-SA, A3, A4, BFIST). I don’t think they come with the new sprockets for them though. They do look to have the proper open center guide teeth.
Plastic multi-part links.
3D-printed multi-part links.
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Well, it was about time the Ryefield folks offered these up
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In addition to the command version of the AMPV I posted last month, there’s the General Purpose AMPV, also on the A4 hull, as they all are:
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Although there are drawings online, good photos of these armored shrouds around the firing ports are relatively rare, so I thought I’d share.
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I don’t think any kit includes these, a nice little scratch building project ?
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Or maybe some one can 3D print them and sell them 
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I commanded a Bradley for four years and never saw these installed. Very interesting.
Definitely. Scratching them would be doable, but not easy with all of the angles, both curved and hard. I have close up photos if anyone is interested, as well as measurements of the OG Bradley kit.
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Photos from DVIDS.
The Bradley Fighting Vehicle is a tracked armored weapons system, named for Gen. Omar Bradley, the last five-star general in the Army. It is designed to transport infantry and scout Soldiers. In November 2020, nearly 300 Soldiers from the 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, perfected their gunnery skills on both tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles at the Doña Ana Training Complex in New Mexico – a sprawling training area located about 30 miles north of Fort Bliss, Texas.
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Some photos I took when we deployed to Bosnia almost 30 years ago. We where the first mechanized unit in country. The story from what I understand was the train that was carrying 1/1 Cav from 1st Armored Division got hung up and we got called up to fly in to start separating the sides in late December 1995.
We got flown in by C-17s to Tuzla airbase, then we rotated to Camp Demi and Pat for almost 10 months, before heading home in October 1996.
Been planning on building one since I got out. Couple false starts with the Tamiya kits, but I’ll be using the Magic Factory Ukrainian M2A2 Bradley kit backdated into a proto M2A2 ODS Bradley-we had some of the mods of ODS update, but that designation didn’t exist at the time I was in.
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Great pics. Thanks!
Do you happen to have the Holy Grail of Bradley photos - the work platform attached to the front hull?
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