Am I opening a can of worms here? I think I am...M113...

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Some Googling has shown me I should probably "hide" this: there's some guy whose rantings, to the best of my recollection, go back to my earliest days on the internet (1990!). The focus of those rantings is the name of the M113 (he insists that it is, in fact, named after a famous airborne general with a last name that begins with "G" - and ends with an "a" followed by a v, i and an n), but even moreso on his bizarre obsession with the thing's capabilities.

To wit, anything <#VEHICLE> can do, an M113 should be assigned to do because it can do it better and it is criminal to allocate anything but M113s to the job. Abrams? No no, a low pressure 120mm main gun on a faster, lighter M113 should have been used - after all the M113 can carry a 155mm gun with no problem! (because the SP part of the M109 shares some powertrain and drive mechanisms in common with the 113). Stryker AGS? That gun turret should be on the -113! M2 Bradley? Too expensive and fiddly! The TOW turret should be on the 113! ad nauseam.

It's to the point (and I should mention it's never happened to me...) that the dude gets all weird and internet stalky on people who disagree with him, or who point out things like the M113 hasn't had an amphibious variant in years and years (he loves pointing out that this track or that track can't go where the 113 can because the 113 is amphibious, but those crooks, liars and criminals in the Pentagon deliberately sabotaged the M113 by removing amphibious capabilities from it, you see), has never ever except unloaded and unfueled and by LAPES been "air droppable" or "air transportable", etc.

Anyone bump in to this dude?

Oh he also lies about his military service; depending on what mood you catch him in he's been an armored platoon commander, part of the Selection Committee for armor projects, a DAT who "saw the light" and learned to love the 113, etc. but in actuality he's a supply clerk or something.

It's borderline neurotic - no, it IS neurotic and quite a hoot to watch from a distance...