US Army looks to possible M113 upgrades
A recent US Army announcement seems to indicate that the service is still struggling with the future of the M113 armoured personnel carrier and its related family of vehicles.
The M113 family has earned a number of monikers over more than half a century of military service. Over the last few decades those descriptions have gradually shifted, from ‘venerable’ and ‘ubiquitous’ to ‘vulnerable,’ ‘aging’ and ‘obsolescent’.
Reflective of this, in 2007 US Army leadership terminated the M113 programme due to inadequate force protection, its inability to incorporate future technologies due to maximised size, weight, power, and cooling (SWAP-C),
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