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Originally Posted by Panther Al
You know with all this talk about the slowness of the 113 platform kinda boggles my mind. True, I accept the basic idea that the 113 can not keep up with the Abrams. OK, Got that. The last vehicle I was the TC of before I got sucked into recruiting was our 77 track (A M113). I can't count the number of times I was told over the radio to slow down so that the M1's can catch up (Especially when we was off road - in any terrain that wasn't smooth and flat, all our 113 platforms smoked our Abrams and Brads). So, while I accept the premise in general, I would tend to think that as the TW went on, the 113's that survived would be, on average, those that seem to be a might bit faster than the rest. Just something to think about...
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M-113s are surprisingly nimble little vehicles and they can outrun and outmaneuver a M-1/M-2 in tight terrain. But in the more open terrain, the only M-113 that ever out ran a M-1 was the Motor Pool Chief's personal ride, and that was only due to him having reset the timing on the governers. But then the first time we pulled a quarterly maintenance on our M-1, we went into the pack and reset our governer too.
Will say this, in my time on the "beasts" (8 years) I can count the times I've thrown a track on a Abrams or on a -113 on one hand. An M-60A1 on the other hand...look at it wrong in the motor pool and it will lock its brakes and throw a track.