The US Army has found a replacement for the M113 armored personnel carriers

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The US Army received the first 29 armored vehicles of the new generation developed under the AMPV program, providing for the replacement of 2897 tracked M113 armored personnel carriers and vehicles based on them in US Army armored brigades, reports "Warspot" with reference to the press service of BAE Systems

The US Army has found a replacement for the M113 armored personnel carriers




As part of a tender held in December 2014, a new tracked vehicle based on the M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle was selected. AMPV will be available in five new versions. On the battlefield, new APCs will be used in conjunction with tanks M1 Abrams and M2 Bradley combat vehicles.

BAE Systems prepared for military testing the first 29 pre-production vehicles in all five versions: armored personnel carrier, command and control vehicle, medical and sanitary vehicle, medical evacuation vehicle, 120-mm self-propelled mortar. If the test is successful, the US Department of Defense will sign a contract with BAE Systems for the delivery of the first batch (289 production machines).

Over the next ten years, the US Department of Defense plans to adopt 2907 units (993 command and control vehicles, 790 medical evacuation vehicles, 386 self-propelled mortars, 216 medical and sanitary machines and the same amount of general-purpose machines). In total, they plan to spend up to $ 113 billion to replace the M13 armored personnel carriers with new cars.
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  1. Ingvar0401 Rank
    Ingvar0401
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    April 5 2018 14: 47
    medical ambulance car, medical evacuation machine
    Specialists tell me - cannot these two functions be performed by one machine?
    1. Berkut24 Rank
      Berkut24
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      April 5 2018 19: 00
      Can. In common people called "loaf".
      1. Maksus Rank
        Maksus
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        April 6 2018 00: 00
        Can not. There is no special equipment in evacuation, it just is not needed, we have in this role GTMU and MTLB. And the sanitary - this is essentially a battalion medical center - there is a tent, piling, oxygen. We planned for this role BMM Symphony (based on BTR-80) and BMM-1 based on BMP. Not fused. These are vehicles for action near the front line with armor from bullets / fragments.
        A loaf is a santransport, like the AC-66, it is not for the first line, but for evacuation from the BCH to the regiment's medical center (brigade medrot) and beyond.
  2. Aaron Zawi Rank
    Aaron Zawi
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    April 5 2018 14: 47
    This is not a line infantry armored personnel carrier, but second-line vehicles. Well, if a single transmission with Bradley persists, this will certainly greatly facilitate the maintenance of the park.
    1. Mih1974 Rank
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      April 5 2018 18: 50
      Yes, yes, they didn’t have enough shit “ravings” like supposedly “military” equipment, so they still make “second line” cars. negative It’s all the more clear to you what kind of crap you’ve made yourself BMPs from tanks, and not from this “funny aluminum cardboard” good
  3. polpot Rank
    polpot
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    April 5 2018 14: 48
    Like a mess, it’s just luxurious, the grenade launcher’s dream.
    1. Aaron Zawi Rank
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      April 5 2018 14: 57
      Quote: polpot
      Like a mess, it’s just luxurious, the grenade launcher’s dream.

      Well, if the granulator will live to see the target in the sight, and there will be no KAZ on the target, then why not?
      1. Mih1974 Rank
        Mih1974
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        April 5 2018 18: 56
        Do you even understand what you are writing? fool If an infantry fighting vehicle falls under fire, this is an ASS negative and this must be avoided by all means, the best of which is speed. And thick supposedly armor at slow speed is just a mockery of barmalens and an “invitation” to stick ATGMs into it crying And no KAZ will help you, they will remove the tube and add another rocket - some tracks will remain.
        1. vomag Rank
          vomag
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          April 5 2018 21: 09
          You know, people on this site always make me laugh, who, for and not only ... at every convenient and not very good occasion write a GRANOMETER DREAM! here imm so it seems that under each bush a grenade launcher sits under each blade of grass a couple hid .. and on the battlefield there is a lot of grass and all in grenade launchers .... wooo beeeedaa ....
    2. cast iron Rank
      cast iron
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      April 5 2018 16: 52
      You might think that the BTR-80 is invulnerable to the RPG of the prodigy)))) On the American BTR-e, at least the DZ is installed in the photo. It is impossible to establish it in Russian BTR-e, as well as on BMP-2.
  4. san4es Rank
    san4es
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    April 5 2018 14: 51
    As part of a tender held in December 2014, a new tracked vehicle based on the M2 Bradley BMP was selected

    hi M2 can accommodate a crew of three people: commander, gunner and driver, as well as six fully equipped soldiers.
    The total cost of the program is $ 5,664,100,000, and the average unit costs $ 3,166,000
    31 May 2016 g
  5. Herculesic Rank
    Herculesic
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    April 5 2018 14: 55
    Only one question is this monster in the photo is clearly “obese!” He will not fall apart on the battlefield by itself from overload? ??
    1. san4es Rank
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      April 5 2018 15: 08
      Quote: Herkulesich
      ... the photo is clearly obese

      hi ... national traditions
      Tank M4A4 Sherman.
    2. cast iron Rank
      cast iron
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      April 5 2018 16: 52
      Do you seriously believe that engineers are in the USA?
      1. axxmanm Rank
        axxmanm
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        April 5 2018 21: 02
        Quote: cast iron
        Do you seriously believe that engineers are in the USA?

        outsourced to India?