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Marilyn Monroe by Frank Powolny, 1952

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B-17 of the US coast guard in flight, including a drop-able life boat (date and location unknown)

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Could you compare the Stryker and BMP? Or just pros/cons?

Let’s compare the latest variants, the BMP-3 and the M3 Bradley:

BMP-3/Obyekt 688M 

Weight: 18.7 metric tonnes

Length: 7.14 meters

Width: 3.2 meters

Height: 2.4 meters

Crew: 3 (commander, gunner, driver) and 7 troopers (+ 2 additional seats)

Armor: Aluminium alloy and steel

Main armament: 100 mm gun/launcher 2A70 (able to fire shells or the 9M117 Bastion ATGM), 30 mm autocannon 2A72

Secondary armament: 3×7.62 mm PKT machine guns

Engine: UTD-29M diesel 500 hp with a power/weight 27 hp/tonne

Suspension: torsion bar

Operational range: 600 km 

Speed: 72 km/h on road, 45 km/h off-road 10 km/h in water.

M3 Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicle

Weight: 23–28 metric tonnes

Length: 6.5 meters

Width: 3.2 meters

Height: 3 meters

Crew: 3 (commander, gunner, driver) and 2 passengers/troops

Armor: Steel and aluminum

Main armament: 25 mm M242 Chain Gun,dual TOW Anti-Tank Missile Launcher

Secondary armament: 7.62 mm M240C machine gun

Engine Cummins VTA-903600 hp with a power/weight 19.74 hp/tonne

Suspension: torsion bar

Operational range: 480 km

Speed: 66 km/h on road, 7.2 km/h on water

In everything but armor the BMP beats the Bradley, as she has much better weaponry, in the form of her 100mm gun, capable of both launching missiles (which are easy to reload from inside the vehicle) and conventional AT rounds, coupled with a powerful 30mm cannon, vs the Bradley’s 25mm chaingun, and her couple of TOW missiles, which have to be reloaded from the outside manually once expended.

But the Bradley has much better armor, capable of withstanding 30mm rounds all-around, and reactive armor capable of stopping RPG’s, BUT the BMP can also equip reactive armor, and thanks to her ability to mount the Shtora electro-optical active protection system, she’s effectively inmune to the TOW once equipped, contrary to the Bradley, which has to rely on her armor to defeat any AT missile. 

So, the BMP-3 wins, a much more modern design born from the ashes of the Afghan war, VS a committee-designed vehicle plagued with problems from her inception, that still, nevertheless proved her worth against Iraqi second-generation tanks and armor.