The Philippine Army tested the 6/28 newly acquired M113A2 (APC) on Monday (September 21) at Camp O’Donnell in Capas, Tarlac.
The six APCs from Israel are equipped with remote controlled 50 milimiter machine gun. This can minimize the number of war casualties from the military.
Defense Secretary Gazmin and AFP Gen. Iriberri actually watched the testing of the APCs. The AFP modernization fund financed the procurement of the 28 APCs with a total cost of 800 million Pesos, added by Gazmin.
114 more APCs donated by the US are about to arrive before the end of the year.
Specification:
| Weight | 12.3 tonnes (13.6 short tons; 12.1long tons) |
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| Length | 4.863 metres (15 ft 11.5 in) |
| Width | 2.686 metres (8 ft 9.7 in) |
| Height | 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) |
| Crew | 2 |
| Passengers | 11 passengers |
| Armor | aluminum 12–38 millimetres (0.47–1.50 in) |
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Main armament
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M2 Browning machine gun |
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Secondary armament
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varies (see text) |
| Engine | Detroit Diesel 6V53T, 6-cylinderdiesel engine 275 hp (205 kW) |
| Power/weight | 22.36 hp/tonne |
| Suspension | torsion bar, 5 road wheels |
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Operational range
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480 km (300 mi) |
| Speed | 67.6 km/h (42.0 mph), 5.8 km/h (3.6 mph) swimming |
No M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank? Maybe even M60 Tanks
Whoever decided to acquire the refurbished armoured personnel carriers will need to be investigated. The money for army weaponries should be geared against external threats not internal!!! What they bought are essentially crew served weapons (Crows) widely available everywhere mounted on old APCs which could not even protect against IEDs. Who the hell is the genius Filipino General (problem) that decided to undertake this purchase should hang!!! Commission na naman inatupag ng mga uud na ito!!!
hoy keyboard general doon ka magreklamo sa AFP tignan natin ang tapang mo. Its obvious that u dont know what ur talking about.
hoy gagong bastos…anong ibig mong sabihin…wala ka namang sinabi sa statement mo eh..anong mali sa sinulat ko…