Just found this one on Webshots. Is it a way to keep the vehicle from being tangled with low hanging wires ? (to say the truth, I can hardly imagine anything else )

Just click on the picture to enlarge (as usual...)


Frenchy

Its not made to stop the Bradley from getting tangled in low hanging wires, but rather to protect the BC (or TC) and Gunner (if he is out of the hatch) from getting hurt / killed by either low hanging wires, or wires designed to decapitate them. Uesally you'll see them on the front bumper of Humvee's or other gun trucks, and most of the time they are just long metal fence pickets, on Bradely's or tanks its hard to put those, because of the weapon system. In this case it looks like the crew's got "fancy"

Thats a really neat idea but looks rather odd. Another detail we will have to add to our Bradleys. thats for this picture Frenchy and Mike thanks for the explanation, definately a detail us Bradley geeks can have fun with.
How is that sprocket attached on the front???

Thanks Mike. I already knew about the engineer stakes used as wire cutters (even on AAVs) but I've been somewhat disconcerted by this one

I think it is bolted on the front armor, using 2 of the sproket holes and the 2 bolts that are already present in this area on the Bradley ...

Frenchy

One reason that tehy may have been made like this, is so that rather than "cutting" the low hanging wires, then just glided over the shape of protection, not cutting power to the civillians in the area, thus making them happy, and still protecting the crews

This makes sense

Frenchy

A piece of angle or similar would work on the Humvee or such, but I think the crew of this Bradley have made them like this to protect the turret crew from all directions. (Imagine running down a road and tangling with a low wire with the turret traversed over the rear. A post welded to the turret front would cut the wire AFTER it had decapitated the TC or gunner.
So maybe not as over engineered as you would imagine
Tom

If you think about it, thats a really good idea. You could even fis something like that around the gunner in a HUMVEE. To a smaller scale of course, but it would work.

Actually, this is not created by the crew, but is something that was divised for the Bradley. What it is used for is to deflect wires overtop of the Bradley rather than cut them. An issue that they had was when a vehicle hits a high power line it can cause the vehicle's wiring to get fried, so instead of frying it, you deflect it overtop.

I am currently in Bradley NET and the wire deflector was part of the issue, we just have not mounted them.

Ric

OK, I know this is , but check out that whole album on web shots. Then find the picture with Murphy's laws of combat. Too funny.

Yea, funny, too bad its all too true

Another use for the deflectors is drape a poncho or camo net over the top to provide some sort of shade while sitting at an OP or checkpoint