M242 Removed from Bradley

[bobcat]

well according to the vehicle guides the 242 can be mounted on a humvee and function so unless i missed an APU in the specs a 24V battery would be sufficient.(and as portable as a G/VLLD )

[Rockwolf66]

That was the HMMWV Fire Support Varient with a Red-T turret. It was an interesting concept but I have heard that there were issues with it breaking the armored windows and deffening the crew.

[Panther Al]

OK - Did some digging: The US Navy is using the Bushmaster on a pedestal mount on its ships now. The mount is beefy yes, but its nothing out of the ordinary in itself. As far as power goes, it looks as if it doesn't have any major power lines running to it, so I would say a few heavy duty truck batteries (Or, say, the batteries scrounged out the donor Brads) might be able to run it for a short period of time.


Another thing to consider, speaking not as a Bradley Gunner - but bouncing around in a platoon made of Abrams and Brads for a couple years - that there was never any real thought about draining the batteries of a Brad by firing without the engine running.

[pmulcahy11b]

Here's an odd question for the ordnance gurus. Is it possible to dismount an M242 Bushmaster from an M2 Bradley, reassemble it, provide an external power source, and use it as a manually-aimed weapon in a fixed position I'm aware of the naval variant that appears to be in a similar configuration, but I don't know if it's feasible to convert a standard ex-Bradley (or ex-LAV-25) gun to work that way.

- C.

I haven't been able to find anything about the M242 being dismountable, but something like that...you probably just need to find a brainy enough gearhead and big enough pile of parts to build what you need.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Hummer FSV :

[Panther Al]

I understand why the FSV was never put into service, but I would have really liked to have seen the kinks of the concept worked out as I think it would be a great addition to the light cav units to give them some very needed firepower in a package that doesn't let them think they are capable of taking tanks on face to face.

[Legbreaker]

If Oerlikon can develop the man portable (barely) Iltis 25mm infantry gun, then it shouldn't be too difficult to work the M242 into something similar.

http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-Infantry-Weapons/25-mm-Oerlikon-Iltis-infantry-gun-Switzerland.html