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Long overdue bump. Here's a brand spanking new Bradley M2A4, delivered earlier this year, and since the forever sandbox wars are over, this IFV is actually painted in a woodland camo, rather than a desert camo or solid tan, which is a pretty refreshing change.
What an Infantry Fighting Vehicle is, is basically an Armored Personnel Carrier with a turret. The Bradley bearing an M242 Bushmaster Chaingun, a 25x137mm self-loading cannon, carrying 230rds of High Explosive 25mm shells ready to go, with 70rds of saboted Depleted Uranium 25mm shells just in case, along with 600rds of HE as a reserve. Mounted as a coaxial to the cannon there's the M240C, with 2200rds of 7.62mm NATO ready.
Frequently, the Bradley also carries a pair of TOW missiles for demolishing actual battle tanks (something these little things have actually done quite a lot). There's also the Firing Port Weapons, which is a weird and autistic little AR15 carbine with no stock that operates on blowback, you're meant to screw this thing into a ball pintle and then with a periscope, walk a stream of barely stabilized tracers towards your target to make them stop trying to blast your IFV with a HEAT warhead.
The FPWs don't get used much at all, being incredibly situational and awkward, but they can reach at low angles which the main turret cannot (also at close distances where shooting HE wouldn't be safe), and it has actually saved the crew of at least a handful of IFVs from getting penetrated over the years.
The Bradley ends up carrying less grunts than your average APC, but on the other hand it provides quite a lot of fire support.