The U.S. Army’s ‘F-35’? The Bradley Fighting Vehicle Spent 17 Years in Development at $14,000,000,000

The U.S. Army’s ‘F-35’? The Bradley Fighting Vehicle Spent 17 Years in Development at $14,000,000,000

The Bradley Fighting Vehicle made its operational debut with the U.S. Army 45 years ago. Critics said it would fail. The vehicle spent 17 years in development at a cost of approximately $14 billion. The Pentagon Wars — a 1998 HBO film starring Cary Elwes and Kelsey Grammar — mocked its development process. Then it went to war. During Operation Desert Storm, the M2 Bradley destroyed more Iraqi tanks than the M1 Abrams main battle tank. In the cur…