Alpine Miniatures 35069 Modern US AFV Crew #1

United States Armed Forces ) are currently the most powerful and strongest troops in the world, with an active staff of approximately 1.36 million people and a budget of $ 686 billion in 2018. One of their most important components is the ground army, i.e. the United States Army, in which 476,000 soldiers in the line served in 2017. These troops are to a very large extent saturated with various types of armored vehicles. At the same time, they are divided into several types of Brigade Combat Team. One of them is the Infantry Brigade Combat Team, which is based primarily on relatively light vehicles from the HMMWV family. The second type is the Stryker Brigade Combat Team, which includes a wide range of vehicles from the Stryker family, including wheeled infantry transporter (M1126), reconnaissance vehicle (M1127) and direct fire support vehicle (M1128). There is also the Armored Brigade Combat Team, i.e. an armored brigade, which, in addition to M1 Abrams tanks, also has Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) or M113 tracked transporters.