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Maximum speed. 67.6 km/h (42.0 mph), 5.8 km/h (3.6 mph) swimming. 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 was first used in combat in April 1962 after the ...
Anniston Army Depot ( ANAD) is a major United States Army facility for the production and repair of ground combat vehicles, overhaul of Small Arms Weapon Systems and the storage of chemical weapons, a.k.a. the Anniston Chemical Activity. The depot is located in Bynum, Alabama . The Department of the Army established the site in 1940, buying ...
The Stryker is a family of eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicles derived from the Canadian LAV III, itself derived from the Swiss Mowag Piranha. [8] Stryker vehicles are produced by General Dynamics Land Systems -Canada (GDLS-C) for the United States Army in a plant in London, Ontario. It has four-wheel drive (8×4) and can be switched to all ...
M113A1 MRT – Mobile Repair Team variant of the M113 in the A1 series standard, equivalent to the M579 Fitter's Vehicle, used for repairing and assisting in the recovery of M113s in the field. Fitted with a modified HIAB Model 172R crane mounted on the top left side of the hull above the passenger area, behind the driver station, with a max ...
LAV 6. Canadian LAV 6 at Saint-André-Avelin, April 2019. The LAV 6, sometimes written as LAV 6.0 or LAV VI, is the fourth generation of LAV, and is based on the LAV III. The first vehicles were delivered in 2013 and after testing entered service in 2016. [1] [2] [4] The Canadian Army plans to replace its entire LAV fleet of various LAV II and ...
Maximum speed. 100 km/h (62 mph) The M1130 commander vehicle (CV) is an armored command vehicle based on the Stryker platform. It is used within the brigade to provide means to receive information, analyze and transmit data, and control forces carrying out combat missions. Models with the double V-hull upgrade are known as the M1255 CVV .
8×8 wheeled. Operational. range. 500 km (300 mi) Maximum speed. 100 km/h (62 mph) The M1132 engineer squad vehicle (ESV) is the combat engineering variant of the Stryker wheeled armored fighting vehicle. It is issued to combat engineer squads in the US Army Stryker brigade combat teams. Models with the double V-hull upgrade are known as the ...
M88 recovery vehicle. An original baseline M88 ( Bergepanzer 1) ARV of the German Army on static display at the German Tank Museum outside Munster, Germany. The M88 recovery vehicle is one of the largest armored recovery vehicles (ARV) in use by United States Armed Forces. There are three variants, the M88, the M88A1, and the M88A2 HERCULES ...