page_title: M113 armored personnel carrier
section_title: Current operators
hierarchical_section_title: M113 armored personnel carrier / Operators / Current operators
caption_attribution_description: M113 firing .50-caliber machine gun during South Vietnamese training exercise. Barrel of side-mounted .30-caliber machine gun can be seen on far side of M113.
context_page_description: The M113 is a fully tracked armored personnel carrier that was developed and produced by the Food Machinery Corp. The M113 was sent to United States Army Europe to replace the mechanized infantry's M59 APCs from 1961. The M113 was first used in combat in April 1962 after the United States provided the South Vietnamese Army with heavy weaponry such as the M113, under the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam program. Eventually, the M113 was the most widely used armored vehicle of the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War and was used to break through heavy thickets in the midst of the jungle to attack and overrun enemy positions. It was largely known as an "APC" or an "ACAV" by the allied forces.
  The M113 was the first aluminum hull combat vehicle to be put into mass production. Much lighter than earlier similar vehicles, its aluminum armor was designed to be thick enough to protect the crew and passengers against small arms fire, but light enough that the vehicle was air transportable and moderately amphibious.
  In the U.S.
context_section_description:  Afghanistan: 173 M113A2.
   Albania: (Albanian Armed Forces) 130
   Argentina: (Argentine Army) 400 M113A1/A2.
   Australia (Australian Army): 340 M113AS4 and 91 M113AS3 upgraded in service from 840 M113A1 
   Bahrain: 239 (est.) US-origin M113A2, 15 US-origin M577A2, 3 Netherlands-origin M577A1
   Bolivia: (Bolivian Army): 50
   Bosnia and Herzegovina: 80
   Brazil: Brazilian Army: 590; Brazilian Marine Corps: 29. Received deliveries of both new and second-hand M113 and M113A2. M113 upgraded locally with Scania diesel engines.
   Canada: 289 (Canadian Army) – 1,143 Purchased from the mid-1960s through the 1990s. Mostly declared surplus. 289 to be upgraded to various configurations and retained until 2020.
   Chile (Chilean Army): 369. Received deliveries of both new and second-hand M113A1 and M113A2.
   Colombia: 54.
   Denmark: 632 Locally designated PMV, Pansret Mandskabsvogn, literally translated to APC. All heavily modified. The M113 is slowly being replaced in the mechanized infantry by the MK35DK.
   Ecuador: 20.
   Egypt: 2,447 M113A2, both new and second-hand.
   Germany: initially 4,000 units.
   Greece: 1399 M113A1 and M113A2 delivered, mostly second-hand.
   Iran (Iranian Army): 400 M113A1 delivered, 200 remaining in service.
   Iraq (Iraqi Army): 173, plus an order for 440 refurbished M113A2s. Iraq bought 1,026 M113A2s in June 2013. Some of these have been captured by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in the 2014 uprising.
   Indonesia: Initial 2 ex-Belgium M113A1-B-FUS and 1 x M113A1-B-Gn (combat engineer version) acquired from Flanders Technical Supply nv in 2014. delivered 50 on 30 May 2016. Up to 150 may eventually be acquired.Currently 155 units in service.
   Israel (Israeli Defence Forces): 6,131 delivered (all variants). 500 remain in active service with an additional 5000 in storage.
   Jordan: 1,124 M113A1 and M113A2 versions received, some second-hand. 370 remaining in service.
   Kataib Hezbollah: Unknown number Additional 150 M577 Command Post variants received in February 2018.
   Kuwait: 126 M113A1 and M113A2.
   Lebanon (Lebanese Army): 1,300+
   Lithuania (Lithuanian Land Force): 238 (as of 2008). Overall 361 M113A1/A2's were transferred from Germany between 2000 and 2006. Lithuanian Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defence of Germany signed a contract on acquiring 168 M577's (a specialized command variant) on November 30 (2016) to be delivered between 2017 and 2018.
   Morocco: 1,200
   Republic of Macedonia: Received 30 second-hand M113A1s.
   Norway (Norwegian Army): 288 upgraded M113s, including at least 97 M113F3s. Furthermore, a new variant, the M113F4, has been developed, but it was ultimately set aside in favor of FFG's ACSV, which is based on the PMMC G5.
   Pakistan: 1,600 M113 APCs in Service of the Pakistan Army.
   Peru: 140 M113A1. 120 remaining in service. Upgrades are done by Desarrollos Industriales Casanave, known as Cobra-1. This involves changing the old engine for a Detroit Diesel 6V53T turbocharged two-stroke 280 HP and with improved gearbox, optimization in the system of suspension and steering, improvement in the electrical system with a 200 amp generator. It also adds a RCWS system, consisting of a ZTM-1 30 x 165 mm automatic cannon with a range of 4,000 m, two RAYO R-2P missile launchers with a range of 5,000 m against low-altitude ground and aerial targets, a coaxial machine gun 7.62 x 54 mm caliber, and smoke launchers.
   Philippines (Philippine Army): 120 M113A1 units were acquired from 1967 to 2006. Some of which were converted into fire support vehicles (FSV) and mortar carriers. 114 M113A2 units were acquired from the U.S. Army on December 2015 and another 28 M113A2 units are bought to be upgraded by Elbit Systems as fire support vehicles (FSV) and armoured recovery vehicles (ARV). 
   Poland (Polish Land Forces): 35 (command and medical evacuation variants)
   Portugal (Portuguese Army): 180 M113A1/A2 APC (150 in service), 4 M901 ITV, 30 M48A3 Chaparral (25 in service), 47 M577A2 (36 in service as command vehicles and three in service as ambulance vehicles)
   Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabian Army), (Saudi National Guar
caption: An ARVN M113 without ACAV set during the Vietnam War.
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