According to images released by the Twitter account, Ronkainen, on August 8, 2022, the 1st Squadron of the 9th Artillery Regiment of the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team of the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division received the new M7A4 BFIST fire support Bradley vehicles.
The M7 BFIST is an artillery fire support vehicle based on the modified Bradley M2A2 ODS (Operation Desert Storm) combat vehicle equipped with a special fire support mission equipment package (MEP). The vehicle provides Fire Support Teams and Sub-Unit/Unit/Brigade-level Artillery Observer Officers (OROs) with a vehicle platform that can demonstrate, plan, coordinate, execute and direct timely, accurate artillery and mortar indirect fires.
Additionally, in addition to providing critical support fire teams with the same mobility, survivability and field signature as the A2 Bradley vehicle line, the M7 provides fire support teams with a 25 mm gun and a 7.62 mm tandem machine gun for self-defense . Most importantly, the M7’s design provides, for the first time, the ability to “aim on the move”.
The new M7A4 BFIST 3 offers under-armor pointing and target location error (TLE90) coordinate level to support precision fire mission applications. The Fire Support Sensor System (FS3) provides twice the target detection capability compared to IBAS as the aiming and pointing of fire is done under the protection of the armor and from the Gunner’s position. The Target Area Estimated Error (TLE) is automatically generated and is the subject of the Fire Requests (CFF) eliminating the need to manually refine aiming coordinates.
