Re: [FYI] World's Longest page on tracks vs wheels

--- Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> wrote:

> An interesting article from Armor magazine some time
> ago (don't remember 
> which issue offhand, but can check): During the UN
> operation in Macedonia, 
> some of the US posts guarding the Serbian-Macedonian
> border were supplied 
> by the neighbouring Finnish troops during the snowy
> period - because the 
> Finnish SISU wheeled APCs were able to negotiate the
> snow and get to the 
> posts, while the US tracked M113s either got stuck
> or turned into gigantic 
> sleighs (and the weather was too poor for helos to
> fly out to the posts) :-/

I don't often sharpshoot you, but if the Sisu in
question is the Sisu that my company had one of in
Kosovo, it's got band tracks.

> Does the latest M113s have the newest tracks,
> though?

I've seen old track pulled off display M113s from the
early 60s to go onto operational M113A3s (special
circumstances).  It's the same track.

John

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