The M113 is a fully tracked armored personnel carrier (APC) that was developed and produced by the FMC Corporation. The M113 was sent to United States Army Europe in 1961 to replace the mechanized infantry's M59 APCs.

The M113 APC for Armoured Personal Carrier was the most legendary of them all. Built to around 80,000, sold to 60 countries, modified to a hundred variants.

2021年6月29日 · Armaments and weaponry on M113 APC. The M113 is commonly fitted with a single .50 cal. M2 Browning machine gun as the main armament. The armoured vehicle can also be fitted with a 40mm Mk 19 automatic grenade. launcher, anti-tank weapons, 7.62mm M60 machine guns and cannon 20mm to 105mm high explosives.

2024年8月14日 · The M113 is the ultimate American armored personnel carrier, and it is the most-produced American armored fighting vehicle in history with over 80,000 made. It is essentially an armored box on tracks, and has lent itself to a plethora of specialized designs.

2022年4月28日 · The M113 is an Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) intended to transport infantry soldiers to the front line. Up to the 1950s, infantry went to battle riding a truck or a tank, a dangerous exposure. APCs had the same mobility as tanks and tracked vehicles and armor protection for their crews.

2018年8月27日 · The mockup for the T113 was finished and inspected in October 1956 and the APC and mortar vehicles were approved for the production of the test vehicles. Five T113s, built from aluminum, were fitted with an AOSI-314-2 air-cooled engine with …

After a number of modifications, the Army began accepting the new APC, now designated the M113, in 1960. The Army now had its “battle taxi,” a vehicle capable of bringing infantrymen onto the battlefield, where they would dismount and work in conjunction with tanks.

The M113A3 is an upgraded version of the M113 family of vehicles, which served as the main armored personnel carrier (APC) for the US Army in the 1980s. The upgrade was undertaken to improve the overall performance of the M113 fleet, addressing its deficiencies in terms of protection and mobility.

2015年11月8日 · Yet despite the huge number of variants and sub-variants, the base M113 APC remains a welded aluminium box-shaped hull set on an uncomplicated tracked chassis.

2023年7月17日 · The American M113 Armored Personnel Carrier became one of the most successful Cold War vehicles in the world with operators numbering over sixty nations and production reaching over 80,000 units. The vehicle made its way into operational service during 1960 and served with American and Australian forces during the Vietnam War (1955-1975).