Hi
ive googled like mad but i cant find any good references/pics of the Bfst turret box with all its optics.
does anyone have any or know were i can look

cheers

mark

On the production version, there are no optics in the box. It has electronic gear in the TOW box, now known as the BAB (Bradley Armored Box). It is a standard TOW box with the rear end blanked off with a sheet of steel. The only external difference between a standard Bradley and an M7 BFIST is the two additional antennas on the rear light guards, a cable spool on top of the right sponson box, and the blanked off BAB. Otherwise, it looks the same.

Here is an M7A2 B-FIST I did a while ago.

There are pics of an M7A3 B-FIST at Prime Portal under M2 Bradley in Iraq pics. It has 1 CAV 1-82F bumper #s and is listed simply as an M2.

The night and interior pics, and some of the other pics on the same page are not an M7A3 though, but a standard M2A3s.

Hi Gino

thanks for the discription, that helps with a few other things as well.
its the early version im after, ( 3ID )

as the Bfst would take on the companys number recognition signs, then the 2 bradleys that are in Robert buriks fine book on the 'thunder run'. page 4 and 25 ( crackshot) are Bfsts. also helps with the fact that they have very little crew kit on the sides compared with all the other infantry bradleys.
would you agree?

mark

Mark,

Sounds right. I don't have the book w/me in Iraq to take a look at them though.

Just a few B-Fist interior pics on Webshots (from a January 2006 thread...)
http://image44.webshots.com/44/4/93/7/307849307CXsSOH_fs.jpg
http://image26.webshots.com/26/6/81/65/307868165BJjCVj_fs.jpg
http://image44.webshots.com/44/4/95/17/307849517zCHvCk_fs.jpg
(Just copy and paste the links in your browser if the links don't work....)

HTH
Frenchy