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taken from www.strategypage.com
November 26, 2003: Australia is upgrading 350 M113A1 APCs to M113AS4 standards, which they hope will then see another 30 years of service. Two demonstration models have been produced. The $500 million M113AS4 upgrade by Tenix will add two feet in length to 171 of the vehicles, along with new armor, machinegun turrets and armored external fuel tanks. Due to enter service in 2006, Cosgrove believes the upgraded APCs will be ready on time and on budget. - Adam Geibel
Tenix product descripton online at: http://www.tenix.com/Main.asp?ID=437
Australian Army M113 background information, online at:
http://www.thunderandsteel.co.uk/m113.html
 
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| Yeah, I had a post on that a few months back. They are basically converting their M-113s to what United Defense calls an M-113 MTVL in the US. Austrailia is doing this because of their experience in East Timor where their wheeled LAVs all got stuck or rolled over because the roads were washed out by monsoon. They sent in their vintage Vietnam era M-113A1s and they operated flawlessly OFFROAD. After that, Austrailia decided that their wheeled LAVs would not be deployed outside of Austrailia in the future.
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