Wow, this thread is still going in fits and starts (rather like post TDM armor production would! ha!)
Interesting to note that AAI is located in Hunt Valley, MD. AAI is the primary producer of the RDF/LT (aka "LAV-75"). If Baltimore survived there's a chance some LAV75s could still be rolled out with remaining parts (I'm sure like all defense contracting, sub-assemblies were spread out to hell and gone).
Of course DC is a mere 60 miles away, that could make things impossible.
The LAV family is primarily manufactured at GDLS-Canada; dunno how bad Canada got pasted, nor where the factory for that would have been.
FMC is in Santa Clara so...yeah, no more M113s or Bradleys. Santa Clara is just south of the Bay and everything up that way gets hit pretty bad.
I think for the first 25 or 30 years after the war the best bet would be to keep what you have running, simplify, and when you absolutely positively need a "new" vehicle you put forth a massive effort to cobble one together out of spares.
(Of course my own non-canon Coming Home scenario would see a bunch of AFVs being taken back home - still a bunch left in Germany, too, mind.)
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