Holy crap that is totally insane. Any of us that know a darn thing about armor know that an M113 can't handle much in the way of a hit. All you have to do is crack a book about armor in Vietnam and see that RPG2s and 7s were quite lethal against their thin sides.
Back in the 90s, I drove the M577 variant when I was with a tank battalion HQ, our scouts used the M901 ITV with the "hammerhead" tow launcher, and I borrowed a straight up M109 mortar carrier for one training problem as an OPFOR scout carrier.
Don't get me wrong, the old girls got the job done, but they had some serious limitations. They were just too slow and they didn't handle off road as well M1s and M2s. They pitched and rolled too much and the gun system was pretty basic. In Iraq, I had a platoon of M113s attached to me. I used them a few times at NTC, but once we got into theater, they never left the base. Too slow and couldn't hold up to an IED.
All that being said, in the world of T2k, the M113 is like a mobile foxhole. It will bring your .50 or Mk19 up to shoot without a hassel and you're infantry can ride as opposed to walking, in a vehicle with a couple big hatches and get out quickly.
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