How much health does a Bradley APC have in Rust?

A Bradley APC has 1,000 health.

Armored vehicle

Bradley APC

Health: 1,000
Crates: 3
Defense: 100% bullet

Drops

Its loot comes from the crates it leaves behind.

What to know

Damage triggers reinforcements
Watch out: Bradley calls additional scientist waves at 80%, 60% and 40% health: 2, then 4, then 6 scientists. Plan for the infantry while damaging the APC.

Sources for this note

Rust PC · Vanilla

Damage triggers reinforcements · checked 5 Sept 2026
- Facepunch: Meta Madness · 2024-05-02

How to kill it

Guns do nothing to a Bradley APC. Use explosives from the table below. Bring rockets.

Calculated estimates. Assumes every hit and pellet lands at full damage, ignoring hit location, armour and distance falloff. Not tested in game.

Bradley's attached-C4 damage path still needs a runtime test. The displayed charge count is provisional.

Explosives

Explosive	Amount	Damage each
	6	192.5
	7	160.5
	11	96.3
	39	26.3
	40	25.0
	82	12.3

Crew

Bradley APC drops scientists as it burns down: 2 at 80% health, 4 at 60% health, 6 at 40% health.

How these counts are worked out

These values use health, base protection and weapon damage from the game files, assuming full hits with no distance falloff. Hit location, worn armour, healing and line of sight can change the actual hits needed; these are not runtime-verified kill requirements.

Counts estimate full hits against the named health pool with no attachments or distance falloff. Pellet weapons assume every pellet lands. Times include firing and reloads, but exclude aiming, travel and target behavior.

Damage resistances

Bullet, Slash, Stab, Blunt, Arrow and Bite100%
0% damage taken
Explosion65%
35% damage taken

How resistance works

Resistance is damage ignored. Unlisted types deal full damage; a negative value is a weakness and increases that damage type.

Prefab and data source

Health, resistances and loadouts come from the NPC prefab; drop chances are computed from its death-loot tables.

Component class: BradleyAPC
Prefab: bradleyapc

Game data: build 25083359, captured 4 Sept 2026. Sources and dates.