M113 Gavins on roads: high speed tracks dynmicpara

One of the LIES the retarded truck-people ("TRUCKTARDS") proclaim is that tracked vehicles need wheeled tractor-trailers to be moved around roads so we should just be road-bound all the time in bloated quasi-armored trucks and get creamed by land mines left and right. Dumb.

http://www.combatreform.com/m113combat.htm

The FACTS are that if your tracked TANKS (anything that is TRACKED and ARMORED is a TANK) are not too heavy (under 20 tons) their RUBBER PADS on steel track shoes are NOT GOING TO BE TOO HARD ON EITHER THE ROADS--OR THEMSELVES. M113 Gavin light tank/APCs have had tremendous operational mobility moving themselves for hundreds and thousands of miles without need of ANY wheeled transporters because they are LIGHT ON THE GROUND AND THEIR RUNNING GEAR. Steel T130 tracks have lasted for 10, 000 miles and T150 track is even stronger. Band tracks that are completely rubberized steel cables is even more gentle on pavement.

http://www.combatreform.com/bandtracks.htm

So yet again, the TRUCKTARDS are caught in another LIE to try to justify their existence--which as the threat weaponry increases is being snuffed out.

There's NOTHING wheels can do that tracks cannot do better and there's a whole hell of a lot things tracks can do that wheels CAN'T DO AT ALL.

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[John234pwns]

Well, honestly speaking, a large IED / mine could easily immobile a Gavin. But, it'd do the same to a Stryker or Bradley, and much worse to a Humvee.

The M113 does seem to have significant advantages in other categories.

The Israelis use them quite effectively, that should mean something.

[dynmicpara]

That advantage Strykers and Brads do not have is CROSS-COUNTRY MOBILITY to AVOID the land mines in the first place.

[almostconcerned]

Those little 113s also get between the trees easier than the Bradleys.  I know that from personal experience.

[andrekrepsky]

It looks like brazilian army, but could be another south american country as they share similar trucks and road signs.

[blzhang]

hmm what country is this? it allows m113 to go on public roads without escorts?

[mathiastheok]

The politicians gave the Army a choice:

STRYKER wheeled vehicles.

Or shopping carts with trash can lids zip tied to their sides.

Both offer the same mobility and force protection.

Time to go back to tracks....

[BlacktailFA]

Well there you have it --- time for the US military to get back of the "fast track"!