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Originally Posted by ArmySGT.
What you say is true, and I am not going to dispute that.... My point is that the M113 is simpler and easier to get back into production. Take the Sherman as a model, mediocre in every category. Spam the war with 100,000 of them and things go quickly into their favor.
The Continental engine and the Allison transmission of the A2 are the same as those in quite a few pieces of heavy equipment (bulldozer, front loaders, etc). Those are going to be built regardless of the war effort.
Most of the engines / transmissions in U.S. fighting vehicles are found in civil engineering equipment.
The one piece that is most difficult to produce in fact is the cast hull....
I might well be very wrong... but, I don't think the U.S. can even make a cast hull in 2016 with the current environmental laws and other compliance issues.
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As stated above the M113 was in production at FMC San Jose facility in California with assistance by Aiken, Steel Products Division until 1998
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