Bradley Engineers can better protect themselves during movement and provide their own local protection while breaching and reducing obstacles. Thus, the Bradley Engineer Company and Battalion is better suited to perform as a breach force during battalion and brigade deliberate breaches. The E-BFV increases our capability to conduct countermobility operations. While the E-BFV platoon is capable of conducting conventional mining operations, the focus of countermobility effort centers on the rapid emplacement of dynamic obstacles. These organizations comprised of E-BFVs and scatterable minefield systems could protect themselves during movement and while emplacing and marking obstacles.
Sustainability is an area where E-BFVs are winners.
During the same period, an M113 company had six M113s deadlined at various times. Although the Bradley is more expensive to maintain than the M113, when the increase in survivability, capability, and sustainability are weighed against cost, the additional cost is more than justified. Another tremendous success story for the E-BFV and combat engineers was gunnery. Confident and motivated engineers conducted Bradley gunnery only six weeks after their introduction to the vehicle, producing astounding qualification scores. This is a qualification record rarely achieved.