Ukraine has modernized American M113 armored personnel carriers: what has changed – UNIAN
This machine is morally very outdated, but it still has work at the front.
Ukraine has modernized M113 armored personnel carriers, which were supplied in large quantities by the United States and other Western partners. According to the Ministry of Defense, these vehicles are equipped with a modern combat module, which is controlled remotely.
We are talking about installing the Tavria 14.5/7.62 module on an armored personnel carrier. “Now, thanks to a new module consisting of two machine guns of 14.5 and 7.62 mm caliber, the machine gunner fires from inside the armored vehicle, observing the battlefield through the monitor,” noted Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Dmitry Klimenkov.
Analysts at the Defense Express portal note that this is actually quite a significant improvement, given that in the old version of the M113 the machine gunner had to fire with poor…
