How Bad Is The M113 APC?

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  @ShadowsOfTheSky · 3 years ago

  I talked to my grandpa, who lost his leg in Vietnam while walking with an armored division including M113s, a few weeks ago. He said that the M113 would’ve obviously been useless against a tank, but were like a mobile fortress against the under equipped enemies. Able to provide adequate mobile protection for a number of soldiers and provide good supporting fire from the .50 cals, everybody felt much better when one was around.<br>Able to hit decent highways speeds, the ability to carry so many infantry safely right into the heat of battle is a massive tactical advantage. <br>Obviously, the vehicle isn’t perfect, but it was quite well suited to the strange conditions of Vietnam.

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  @MrArgus11111 · 3 years ago

  I think it&apos;s harder to find APCs that infantrymen do NOT call &quot;deathtraps&quot; in some form or another.

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  @dogman9223 · 3 years ago

  M113 best aircraft

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  @frankfreeman1444 · 2 years ago

  Good sir: &nbsp;My name is Frank Freeman. At the end of 1967 or very beginning of 1968 (old fart disease, I really can&apos;t remember), I was an Air Force radio maintenance technician, Ssgt., assigned to the 601st Tactical Control Maintenance Squadron at Sembach, Germany. We were Depot level maintenance, which means we fixed the radios that the techs at the squadrons couldn&apos;t fix. The Air Force had recently introduced the MRC-107 jeep-mounted radio system for use by forward air controllers in support of the Army. That was one of the two systems I was personally responsible for. It had HF, VHF and UHF radios all mounted on a pallet where the back seat of the jeep was supposed to be.<br>We had just figured out that in the field, the jeep could not always stay with the tracked vehicles, which limited it&apos;s effectiveness as air support provider. They decided to try to fit the radio system of the 107 to an APC, but the Army insisted that it had to be done with no changes to the M-113. Some way that would allow the radio pallet and antennas to be transferred quickly into the 113, and then back, if necessary.<br>I drew the assignment to make that happen. They dropped a 113, I don&apos;t know which version, off at my Squadron, and I personally and single handedly figured out how to do it. I got it working and it was field tested and worked well. I removed the system and they took the APC back. Of course I drove it a couple of times, because I was strictly ordered not to!<br>Anyway, I left the Air Force after Vietnam, so I never really heard what they did with the system. But I was watching TV news at the start of the drive in Desert Storm, and I actually saw a 113 with my antenna configuration, streaking across the desert, and felt really proud.<br>Thank you for your time if you read this!

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  @whybndsu · 3 years ago

  People forget what the M113 is for, it&apos;s a battle taxi and the modern incarnation of the Bren carrier. It&apos;s lightly armored but can be airlifted, is moderately amphibious, can transport men and material across various kinds of terrain and can mount various weapons from MGs to mortars to autocannons.<br><br><br>Lastly, it can also become the ultimate weapon if you put wings and an engine on it and arm it with AIM-9 Sidewinders in the form of the Aerogavin

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  @SixgunSymphony.44-40 · 2 years ago

  Critics of the M-113 want it to be a tank. They dont grasp the role of an APC.

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  @Orangefan77 · 3 years ago

  I love how the opening of the video is the M113 climbing like a 1* grade, something which is impossible for it to do in War Thunder

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  @higgs923 · 3 years ago

  Served with the USN in Vietnam&apos;s Mekong Delta 20 klicks upriver from Can Tho. The M113 was the only armored unit that the Army could reliably deploy in that area due to the water table being so close to the surface of the ground. Tanks were vulnerable to getting stuck in the dry season, hopeless when it rained.

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  @jasonxd5738 · 3 years ago

  Having driven one of these in real life, they&apos;re slow, but not nearly as slow as WT makes them. Believe it or not they CAN climb hills with relatively little trouble. That&apos;s my biggest gripe with how they are portrayed in game

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  @bunkphenomenon · 3 years ago

  I was a M163 Vulcan crewmember. I hated the fact that we could not keep up with M1s and Bradleys. The M113 was slow, but even slower with a multi-ton Gatling gun mounted on it.

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  @pinkycatcher · 3 years ago (edited)

  My Uncle was in an M113 in Vietname when it was hit by an RPG, he was the radio guy and made it out alive. They can take some damage and keep the people inside (mostly) alive. If you search for &quot;The Battle for Buttons&quot;, he was in Lt. Andrews ACAV. There&apos;s a paper one of the guys involved wrote about it, and has some very dramatic pictures.<br><br>Also there&apos;s a note in there about the crews doing unauthorized &quot;mine plate&quot; upgrades to protect against mines

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  @christianjohnson9190 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjaJtmPfsas&amp;t=23">0:23</a> man, that would be cool to get a M113 to look like the Star Wars Clone Wars gunship in episode 2

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