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On display at the Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles in Lexington, Nebraska, is an M-113 with a difference. It packs a total of 8 Hellfire laser-designated fire-and-forget missiles. Never entered service, and it looks like one good hit up top by enemy fire could really ruin the crews day, but it’s still a serious nasty looking piece of equipment.
4 Responses to “M-113: Prototype Hellfire Missile Launcher”
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On the one hand, seriously brutal, on the other…
who’s going to volunteer to step outside to re-load the thing in the middle of a tank battle……..
And the M-113, slab-sided box that it is, would make a primo target for some ill-educated jackhole with a cheap RPG. With the missiles up top, it’d make a hell of a fireworks display.
Sure, vulnerable as all get out. You just want to keep it at least one, preferably two ridgelines away from hostile forces. Cheaper than an AH-64, less mobile, but a battery of these with a couple of good teams with laser designators could lay some real hurt on a tank column.
I agree, given a buddy lase and half-decent cover, it could be a pretty handy way to bring the fight up close. The VLS cell gizmo for the NLOS project is pretty much the same concept.
Jim