Bradley Fighting Vehicle

American  

noun

1. a 25-ton, tracked U.S. armored personnel carrier of the 1980s, designed to carry nine soldiers into battle and armed with a 25 mm rapid-fire cannon, a machine gun, and an antitank missile launcher.

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Etymology

Origin of Bradley Fighting Vehicle

Named after General Omar Bradley

Example Sentences

Bradley Fighting Vehicle: a tracked, armoured vehicle with a turret-mounted 25-mm gun that can carry up to seven soldiers in addition to three crew.

From Reuters • Jan. 20, 2023

Cashe, 35, is credited with repeatedly braving a burning Bradley Fighting Vehicle near the Iraqi town of Duluiyah on Oct.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2021

According to his Silver Star citation, Cashe was in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle that rolled over an improvised explosive device in Samarra, Iraq.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2020

On Easter Sunday of 2008, Chris was out on patrol in Baghdad when his Bradley Fighting Vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.

From Washington Times • Feb. 4, 2020

The American company makes the Army’s Bradley Fighting Vehicle and provides information technology systems to American intelligence agencies and repair services to the U.S.

From BusinessWeek • Dec. 23, 2011