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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Armoured Vehicles in the Gulf -- APCs (8 of 12)
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.070057.22183@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 4 Feb 91 07:00:57 GMT
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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)

US: M113A3, Air-Portable APC

Used by:  
	United States, Canada, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait,
	Saudi Arabia, others.
Description:
	Light APC, formerly with gasoline engines, in service 1963 (diesel),
	being replaced by Bradley M-2 IFV.s
Stats:
	2 crew, 11 infantrymen, no NBC protection
	2.5m high, 2.5m wide, 3m long, 11,000 kg
	68kph, 480km range, 215hp, amphibious
	1 * 12.7mm mg
Variants:
  	Many!
Comparative values (from Dunnigan, ``How to Make War'': a Merkava has a
firepower and protection of 10):
	firepower: 2
	protection: 2
	comfort: 6
	ground pressure: 120
	hp/wt: 20
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James F. Dunnigan, ``How to Make War'', New York (William Morrow) 1988.
Charles Messinger, ``Tanks and other Armoured Vehicles'', London (Penguin), 1990.
R.G. Lee, ``Introduction to Battlefield Weapons Systems'', Oxford (Pergamon), 1981 [UF 500 L43]
Richard E. Simpkin, `Antitank'', Oxford (Pergamon), 1982



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