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Originally Posted by copeab
They don't work that well. The soldiers firing through them have nowhere near the field of vision required for accurate fire. Additionally, vehicle motion wrecks weapon accuracy.
Using firing ports is about as useful as running through the jungle at nigfht randomly firing your gun full auto. You might accidentally hit something, but you are going to waste a lot of ammo in the process.
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Just to add to that, there is a significant parallax difference in the Bradley's firing ports -- you are looking through a vision block that's like a periscope so that while you are in your seat, the top of the vision block that looks outside is about 6 inches higher than your weapon. That's why the M-231's had magazines full of tracers -- you don't have a prayer of even firing in the right direction for suppressive fire any other way.
In the end, it was decided (correctly, IMHO) that having more armor was better than being able to poorly suppress enemy fire.