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Serial: 13531 Location: Ft. Rucker, AL

Just my 2 cents but the M242 on the Brad with DU rounds has been known to successfully destroy T-72's during Desert Storm. In fact more Bradleys killed tanks than tanks killed tanks during that operation and the round is a 25MM. To be fair the 25MM from a Brad has quite a bit of powder and heft behind it compared to the 30MM of say an Apache. I dont know the size other than the diameter of the rounds on the blackshark so I cant comment on that but just because its 30MM doesnt necessarily mean that it wont penetrate say a T-72

I am currently having two issues with LO FC 1.12b. The first is that unless there is a label on the screen, as in a unit or missile etc, the screen is black other than the cockpit. If I turn my head a little bit it goes away, but flying cock eyed and not being able to see everything I need to see at once is really annoying. My second issue is that for some reason the only way any of my joystick buttons will work is if I hold down the shift button on the joystick. My system specs are as follows Q9650 Win 7 64 bit dual 9800 GTX 1GB latest nvidia drivers G940 with logitech 5.08 software Any help on either of these issues would be great. Thank you so much.

Exactly what I meant by it. You can technically shoot down helicopters with main gun from a M1 as well, hell you probably would have a better chance of hitting the target seeing how the computer targeting systems on the M1 are tremendously better than anything the A2 bradley or even the A2 ODS versions have. Also where did that training segment come from? As I was reading over it it says in the training part that you use it either dismounted or mounted, that means it wasnt from a Bradley training manual from which I was referring to in the first place. Bradleys wouldn't shoot a TOW at a helicopter, at least not a sane one. It just wouldn't happen. The cannon on the weapon is much better weapon to use. Which brings me to another point about the Bradley in the game, they can shoot the TOW on the move. Another thing that is not possible. The Bradley when moving more than 5 mp/h will automatically drop the TOW launcher so it will not break the hydraulics on it. Another thing is the STAB system in the bradley is not capable of holding the weapon steady at anything more than a slow speed, the wire would break. I tested it out yesterday and set the speed of the M2 at 40 km/h and sure enough when I was in range they fired at me with TOW's. How they fired broadside with TOW's at this speed is beyond me.

I have been in the US Army for 6 years now, with almost all of it on the M3A2 and the new M3A3 CMOD1 in every position in the vehicle. Never once have we engaged helicopters with TOW missiles in training or any other sort. On top of the I have never heard anything along as far as instructions of using the TOW against helicopters. The chance of hitting compared to the threat of having to be visible to the threat is too high. You have to continually expose yourself to use the TOW, not to mention too high of movements can cause the wire to break and you have wasted the missile. Not to mention it will go with the type of missile you are shooting. Certain TOW's (the TOW 2B for example uses an top-down warhead to destroy the enemy vehicle and it purposely engages the target higher than normal because it has to shoot its warhead down on the top of the armor. This means that if you shoot it at a helicopter it will engage it high. If you are within 3000 meters you can use the HE rounds to more harass the helicopter than anything else hoping he will go away seeing how most helicopters are armored to an extent. If the helicopter does get within 2200 meters or engage with AP rounds, which is the recommended way to engage the helicopter to begin with. This has been a topic I have asked several Bradley Master Gunner qualified people about and they agree. To shoot a TOW at a helicopter is almost suicide. Hide instead and use smoke/maneuver tactics to get the helicopter to get in closer if you must destroy it.

I will admit its a cool effect, yet it annoys me to know that a M2/M3 will use a TOW missile on you. Its completely inaccurate. Imagine my surprise when I went to engage some and staying well out of the 3000M range of the HE rounds of the 25mm cannon when I see a puff of smoke and a TOW missile hits me out of the sky. Yes it is possible, yet VERY unlikely and hard to do. It is hard enough to hit a moving ground target. Not to mention the Bradley's that they have dont have the optics to be able to effectively see and identify the target at the max range. This is a great game, I love it, and I dont think this needs to be worked on right away by any means. I am just hoping that this gets included in the fix when and if ED updates the ground AI.