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

At 1:21 PM -0800 1/10/02, John Atkinson wrote:
>
>Completely unrelated families.
>
>I know for a fact that neither track shoes, road
>wheels, final drives, transmissions, generators,
>starters, engines, or any other major components are
>the same.  Same motorpool as 1/36 Infantry in Kosovo.
>We tried to bum stuff of them but they kept very
>little M-113 PLL stock because they only had a few of
>them.

Well phooey. It seems to me that rather than extending the chassis of 
the M113, a United Defense chassis common with the M2/3, MLRS, etc 
would be the best thing to do. Start with your basic box APC and go 
from there.
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