The m113 is a fine vehicle. It's dated now, but it's perfectly good at what it does. It's basically a more capable, lightly armored truck.
I was not aware of the Vulcans shorter range compared to the Shilka, the ballistics on the round make it look like it should be about the same, maybe slightly better. Although it is a lighter round.
The point is, as a sort of quickly thrown together thing it looks pretty good on paper. The US Army should have developed it further, made a better replacement with a purpose built chassis like the Shilka, as they already had something comparable to see the utility and figure out what they would want in a replacement. But instead they abandoned the whole concept for expensive missile carriers, which seems like a huge waste to me.
The m113 is a fine vehicle. It's dated now, but it's perfectly good at what it does. It's basically a more capable, lightly armored truck.
I was not aware of the Vulcans shorter range compared to the Shilka, the ballistics on the round make it look like it should be about the same, maybe slightly better. Although it is a lighter round.
The point is, as a sort of quickly thrown together thing it looks pretty good on paper. The US Army should have developed it further, made a better replacement with a purpose built chassis like the Shilka, as they already had something comparable to see the utility and figure out what they would want in a replacement. But instead they abandoned the whole concept for expensive missile carriers, which seems like a huge waste to me.