How much health does a Bradley Scientist have in Rust?

A Bradley Scientist has 150 health.

What does a Bradley Scientist drop in Rust?

A killed Bradley Scientist can drop 211 different items. The most likely are Pistol Bullet, 5.56 Rifle Ammo and Medical Syringe.

Bradley Scientist

Health: 150
Defense: Normal

Most likely drop51.9%×15

Drops

Chance per kill. Averaged over its 2 possible loadouts.

Item	Chance	Amount
	51.9%	15
	51.2%	12
	33.4%	1 to 2
	16.7%	1
	7.95%	6
	7.51%	1 to 6
	4.81%	4
	4.81%	4 to 8
	4.73%	2 to 3
	4.73%	1 to 2
	4.73%	2 to 4
	4.73%	1 to 2
	4.73%	1
	4.73%	1
	3.50%	1
	2.92%	2 to 4
	2.92%	15 to 25
	2.33%	1
	1.91%	1
	1.72%	1
	1.41%	1
	1.00%	10
	0.50%	10
	0.44%	8
	0.36%	1
	0.23%	1
	0.22%	10
	0.22%	8
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	4 to 6
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.16%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1
	0.07%	1

From the corpse

Total yield from butchering the corpse.

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

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

Explosives

Explosive	Amount	Damage each
	1	180.0
	1	350.0
	1	550.0
	1	400.0
	1	175.0
	2	90.0

Guns

Ammo	Body	Time
14 pellets	1	0s
20 pellets	1	0s
20 pellets	1	0s
20 pellets	1	0s
14 pellets	1	0s
14 pellets	1	0s
	2	3s
	2	2s

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.

Prefab and data source

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

Component class: ScientistNPC
Prefab: scientistnpc_bradley
Loadouts: 2

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