This article presents preliminary observations regarding the possible replacement for the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier. The Engineer School is continuing to explore materiel and doctrinal concepts related to the Engineer Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Additional information will be published as it becomes available.
To成为21世纪军队的相关力量乘数，战斗工程师需要一个移动和可生存的平台才能进行战斗。我们认为，暂定称为工程师布拉德利战车（EBFV）的车辆是答案。自1980年代中期以来，战斗工程师一直在努力与他们支持的现代化部队保持同步，这些部队配备了M1坦克，M2步兵战车和M3骑兵战车。战斗训练中心的轮换常常表明工程师的设备已经过时，并且无法满足1990年代战斗的要求，也无法满足我们21世纪军队的需求。M113装甲的人员载体是一个完美的例子：它很慢，截止日期较高，几乎没有保护，只用作部队和货物载体。
陆军正在从机械化到装甲战队过渡。在机械化的战争中，士兵转移到车辆中的目标并下马以执行其任务。在装甲战中，士兵们以可生存的，富有火力的平台在战场上移动，该平台使他们能够在安装和盔甲的情况下执行任务。对战斗工程师的含义是，我们需要从基于促进的力量到基于设备的力量。此外，我们的设备必须提供完成任务所需的功能。
The characteristics of the Force XXI battlefield will demand even more from combat engineers. Like the maneuver forces we support, combat engineers need platforms with speed, versatility, and survivability. Force XXI technologies will allow greater dispersion, enable distributed operations, and increase the tempo of battle as never before. All these Force XXI enablers put demands on providing mobility to the force unlike any previous doctrinal change. Equipping combat engineers with the Engineer Bradley Fighting Vehicle is a step in the right direction. It is essential to the future of combat engineer forces and to the success of maneuver forces.
T他的文章讨论的初步结果going Bradley Concept Experimentation Plan conducted by the Engineer Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division and the U.S. Army Engineer School. The end state for the evaluation is twofold: to determine if the Bradley is suitable for combat engineers and to determine the advantages and disadvantages of the Bradley as a combat engineer platoon vehicle. Throughout the Bradley experimentation, the focus of the Engineer Brigade was to provide the engineer community with feedback in three areas:
In February 1998, A Company, 588th Engineer Battalion, made history when it fielded nine M2A0 Bradley Fighting Vehicles. The Engineer Brigade received the Bradleys on loan from the 49th Armored Division, Texas National Guard, at Fort Hood.
随着布拉德利（Bradley）的野外，战斗工程师公司的结构几乎改变了。分配给战斗工程师排的人员人数减少了，以匹配保守党重型部门修改后的组织和设备（MTOE）的力量授权。例如，工程师排从三个小队更改为两个小队。布拉德利被替换为公司的M113。公司指挥官收到了一个布拉德利，四个被分配到每个线排，一个排为排领先者，一名用于排中士，两个助人小队中的每一个。
Two points are worth noting regarding the structure of the Bradley engineer company. First, the engineer Bradley is not called a squad vehicle. It is tentatively called an Engineer Bradley Fighting Vehicle. This name is in keeping with today's offensively oriented doctrine where the engineer platoon, not the squad, is employed as the basic breaching and reduction unit. This is also true of countermobility operations, which focus on emplacing scatterable mines. The engineer platoon sites and marks these obstacles. Second, reducing the engineer platoon from three to two squads was not precipitated by the transition to Bradleys: It is the result of a previously im-plemented MTOE change.
The evaluation began in March 1998 with new equipment training (NET) and culminated in August 1998 with A/588th's participation in National Training Center Rotation 98-10. The Bradley NET team from Fort Benning, Georgia, conducted the training in two phases.
No training was conducted on the tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided (TOW) missile system since it was determined this is not a weapon system engineers are expected to use to accomplish their mission. Use of the TOW launcher and the type of munitions engineers might employ in the future need further evaluation.
The NET was fairly easy for combat engineer soldiers and leaders, who quickly adapted to the new equipment and skills. In addition to the dedicated NET team, the company borrowed other resources to accomplish the training. A qualified Bradley master gunner was needed at both company and battalion levels to train gunnery skills and to plan, prepare, and help execute gunnery qualification. The company also required a dedicated UCOFT to prepare for gunnery training and maintain gunnery skills. For the test period, the unit acquired a master gunner from the Engineer School and a UCOFT from 2d Brigade, 4th Infantry Division.
Between phase I and phase II of the NET, A/588th conducted company/team lanes training with Task Force 1-67 Armor to prepare for the National Training Center. Repre-sentatives from the Maneuver Support Battle Lab and the Engineer School were on hand to examine the Bradley's performance. A/588th focused on validating load plans and on the TTPs for conducting missions in offensive and defensive operations. The company took this training a step further by conducting a one-week platoon lanes field training exercise (FTX) to further refine the TTPs needed to execute their mission at the National Training Center.
Combat engineer soldiers embrace the Bradley because it provides them speed, mobility, protection, and firepower not possible in an M113. Engineer leaders champion this vehicle because of its versatility and potential. Maneuver forces are advocates of combat engineers in Bradleys because EBFVs can maintain the pace and tempo of maneuver forces and provide enhanced mobility and countermobility support.
T他的第588工程师营正在为布拉德利工程师排和工程师公司开发详细的TTP。从M113s转换为Bradleys并未在TTP中产生巨大的变化。用于M113S操作的大多数TTP都可以满足布拉德利的操作。但是，在某些领域，正在开发新的TTP，以支持更可生存和多功能的布拉德利提供的增强功能。车道标记和行雷区淘汰TTP需要进行较小的修改。有趣的是，我们发现布拉德利（Bradley）比在M113中更容易，更有生产力。
提高速度，盔甲和火力使战斗工程师可以工作，操纵和保护自己。布拉德利的炮塔和主要枪支对于对抗工程师并提高其能力和多功能性非常有价值。M113S指挥和控制移动性和反向运动资产的工程师，但他们依靠操纵力来保护它们。这种依赖通常会耗尽已经拉伸的步兵和装甲部队的火力。布拉德利（Bradleys）的工程师可以在运动期间以及违反和减少障碍物时更好地保护自己。因此，布拉德利工程师公司和营更适合在营中表演违反武力，并故意违反旅。
第588个工程师营还用Pearson En-Ginering生产的V型表面矿山耕作。从伦纳德堡（Fort Leonard Wood）借了一个犁，三只是从加拿大陆军借来的。这些犁有潜力维持实力的途径。叶片可以从水平的，硬包装的表面清除瓦砾和脱脂式地雷。他们在柔软的土壤中很好地耕作，可以在刀片前保持足够的变质。如果刀片沿着水平轴漂浮，则可以沿着精确表面（例如战斗步道）使用。刀片目前在不平坦的表面或岩石区域的表现不佳。需要对其他刀片进行更多的实验，以充分开发此移动性资产。
工程师布拉德利战车也提高了我们进行反运动操作的能力。尽管EBFV排能够进行常规的矿山操作，但反运动努力的重点集中于动态障碍的快速增长。可以在战场上独立运作的能力，可以组建工程师排，公司和营大小的反车组织。如果这些组织配备了EBFV和可分散的矿山系统，则可以在运动期间保护自己，同时加强和标记障碍。
The potential exists for adding other engineer systems to the EBFV. One possibility is to replace the TOW launcher with a weapon system that employs a high-explosive munition similar to the 165-millimeter high-explosive "bunker buster" round on the Combat Engineer Vehicle. An EBFV demolition gun could be used to reduce roadblocks and other obstacles. Another opportunity worth considering is to design and mount a small panel for Volcanos on the EBFV. Each Bradley engineer platoon would then have a rapid scatterable mine capability.
While not directly related to TTPs, but often having a tremendous impact on how we conduct a mission, sustainability is an area where EBFVs are winners. During a two-week company/team lanes FTX, one Bradley was deadlined. An M113 company had six M113s deadlined at various times during the same period. As we adopt the Force XXI centralized logistics support concept and move from supply-based to distribution-based maintenance, an economy of scale is created through the use of a common chassis. This makes the Bradley more sustainable in the heavy division than M113-type vehicles. Although Bradleys are more expensive to maintain than M113s, the increase in survivability, capability, and sustainability more than justifies the additional cost.
Soldiers from A/588th Engineer Battalion developed standard load plans for the EBFV that facilitate the successful execution of combat engineer missions. Every piece of platoon equipment was examined to determine what an engineer platoon needed in combat. TOW storage racks were removed from the M2A0 Bradley to increase interior space, and the exterior was adapted to carry wire, pickets, and tools. Although Bradleys do not have as much interior space as M113s, the EBFVs can carry the engineer equipment necessary for combat. The EBFV load plans were explored again during National Training Center Rotation 98-10.
/第588名人员还制定了修改布拉德利内部和外部的计划，以增加空间和效用。通过与布拉德利项目经理和红河陆军仓库的协议，这些计划用于修改M3A0骑兵战车。来自A/588的士兵与红河的一支团队合作完成了修改。带有储物盒的长凳座椅更换了单个座位，架子和橱柜式的储物盒取代了多余的拖车架和弹药盒。将柱子焊接在车辆的外部，以携带纠察器和车道标记材料，并使用饰物叶片携带六角琴线。还安装了一个较大的喧嚣。
These were simple and inexpensive modifications that could be completed within the battalion. M2 Bradleys can be similarly modified to increase space and function. M2 ODS Bradleys (those modified for use in Operation Desert Storm) already have more interior space than earlier M2 models as a result of similar modifications.
Another tremendous success story for the EBFV and combat engineers was gunnery. Confident and motivated engineers conducted Bradley gunnery only six weeks after the vehicle was introduced, and they produced astounding qualification scores. All crews qualified on their first attempt (Q1 rating), with one crew qualifying as "distinguished" and two crews qualifying as "superior." This record is rarely achieved in the division.
工程师根据FM 23-1的Bradley Gunnery进行了枪手。一名/第588名士兵使用表V，VI和VII练习射击，然后在表VIII上获得了资格。这些表不应为工程师修改，因为工程师在执行任务时会遇到相同类型的参与。
The 588th is also developing a platoon live-fire table for combat engineers. Bradley platoon gunnery for infantry soldiers consists of Table XI, Platoon Practice, and Table XII, Platoon Qualification. Qualification is based on the platoon's ability to execute collective tasks in a live-fire environment. Similarly, the engineer platoon Table XII focuses on offensive and breaching operations under live-fire conditions. A Bradley engineer Table XII serves as an excellent graduation exercise from platoon lane training and also prepares the engineer company to participate in the maneuver task force Combined Arms Live-Fire Exercise.
T他EBFV使工程师成为联合武器团队的更有价值的一部分。接下来，这是将战斗工程师推向军队的平台。布拉德利（Bradley）的便宜和简单修改减轻了负载计划的恐惧。犁和其他附件为联合武器团队提供了优势，并将使工程师的力量从机械化的战争方式移动到战争方式。布拉德利为我们的士兵提供了一个更可生存的平台。根据我们的经验，枪手并不是训练的干扰者。我们认为，通过将枪支与工程师巷训练合并，可以改善工程师培训。
对于现任工程师布拉德利战车信息和照片，请访问第四步兵部（机械化）的工程师旅，网站http://hone-ivygreen.army.mil/Engineer。Send comments and input to the brigade S3 e-mail address provided on the web site or directly totortoran@hood-emh3.army.mil.
托托拉少校是第四步兵师的工程师S3旅。先前的任务包括S3，第588工程师营；USACE奥马哈区项目工程师；公司指挥官，第16工程师营；第43工程师营的排长兼公司执行官。Maj Maj Tortora毕业于美国军事学院，并拥有德克萨斯大学的工程硕士学位。
大奎格利执行官,588工程师neer Battalion. Previous assignments include S3, 588th Engineer Battalion; division comptroller, 4ID; budget analyst, Army Budget Office, Pentagon; Engineer Assignment Officer, PERSCOM; company commander, 4th Engineer Battalion; platoon leader and company executive officer, 293rd Engineer Battalion. MAJ Quigley holds master's degrees in business administration from Troy State University and in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College.
