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Bookmark or Share- M113: An iconic armored personnel carrier from the last centuryThe 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.
- Variants of the M113 armored personnel carrier - WikipediaA huge number of M113 armored personnel carrier variants have been created, ranging from infantry carriers to nuclear missile carriers.
- M113 armored personnel carrier - WikipediaThe 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.
- M113A1/2E HOTROD - Tank EncyclopediaThe M113A1/2E 'HOTROD' was one of many experiments undertaken during the Cold War that aimed to improved the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier.
- M113 (Armored Personnel Carrier) - The Army Historical FoundationThe M113, measuring 15 feet, 11 inches long, 8 feet, 10 inches wide, and 8 feet, 2 inches in height, and weighing just over twelve tons, could carry eleven fully equipped soldiers and a crew of two (driver and track commander).
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