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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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113A3s can hang pretty well.
M901s were underpowered and pokey things even compared to pre-A3 113s, though.
I still suspect that late in the Twilight War, a lot of them would have the 901 components just scrapped or cannibalized for used elsewhere and basically be converted back to M113s, or as close as DISCOM maintenance assets could manage by 1999-2000.