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Russian volunteers join Ukraine’s Siberian Battalion to fight against Putin's troops...

Some Russian citizens who oppose President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are taking up arms to fight alongside Ukrainians against their own homeland. These volunteers are part of the Siberian Battalion, a new unit formed last summer and is officially part of Ukraine's armed forces. 

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The US Bradley Fighting Vehicle is one of those American-made weapons systems — along with the AH-64 Apache helicopter gunship and B-2 Spirit "Stealth Bomber" — that were developed in the 1980s, battle-proven in the 1990s, and remain in service to this day. Bradley Fighting Vehicle Is Starting to Show Its Age through some major growing pains — either due to cost overruns and/or reliability issues — that generated public controversy and cast doubt on whether the things would ever become viable in the first place. (Hey, hindsight is always 20/20, right?).

Bradley made it this far and what future holds for this venerable vehicle. A 5-Star General's Namesake. As students of WWII & Cold War history will recognize, Bradley vehicle currently manufactured by BAE Systems — was named for Gen. Omar Nelson Bradley (1893 - 1981), the WWII U.S. Army officer who rose in rank as General of the Army, earned a 5th star, and became first Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, serving in latter position fm Aug-1949 to Aug-1953.

As well-known personality clashes between the puritanical Bradley and the brash, colorfully profane Gen. George Smith Patton Jr, one wonders if ol' Omar is rolling over in his grave at the thought of getting a mere infantry fighting vehicle named after himself whilst Patton had four different main battle tanks bearing his own namesake. But I digress. Bradley was intended as replacement for U.S.l M113 carrier that entered service in 1960. Conceptualization of the M113's replacement actually began in 1963, but to make a long story short, it went through equivalent".

Bradley Fighting Vehicle entered production in 1981 became a replacement for M113. This considered a more powerful & faster vehicle than M113,  better suspension increases speed on off-road terrain. Within just a few years after Bradley rolled into service, its survivability and combat effectiveness became targets of concern.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/b...age-208720