Pakistan Army APC Inventory

[Falcon26]

Please read what i wrote and see that photos!. That is real.

Mine proof vehicles are our core business; you keep on asking US .. US .. US... why do you not reach out to us, the M'ricans turned to us to design and engineer their vehicles which you have in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We could have helped design it with your local vehicles too but that too was not followed. Where is the fault?

When Rhodesians farmers could build their versions using VW bug ... come on my friend.. have some gray matter between your head.

Sorry, my friend. You ran against the time tested Pakistani argument of “we have no budget” lol

 

[Armchair]

The precious industrial capability in HIT - how is the world are they allowed to underutilize it and run it incompetently?

HIT has the capacity, the machinery, to become an exporter of armoured vehicles. Yet look at them. Taking salaries from the nation and flushing it down the drain. Shameless.

 

[Bossman]

The precious industrial capability in HIT - how is the world are they allowed to underutilize it and run it incompetently?

HIT has the capacity, the machinery, to become an exporter of armoured vehicles. Yet look at them. Taking salaries from the nation and flushing it down the drain. Shameless.

How is it underutilized and why?

 

[Readerdefence]

Sorry, my friend. You ran against the time tested Pakistani argument of “we have no budget” lol

Hi or pk argument can be they just relying on American MRAP supplying free of cost from Afghanistan & as you know until unless something somewhere in the interest of someone they
Won’t be starting their own product
Ps which is insane
Thank you

 

[Armchair]

I say, get as much US equipment leaving AFG as possible. There won't be another chance within the next decade.

 

[Tipu7]

I say, get as much US equipment leaving AFG as possible. There won't be another chance within the next decade.

Army is working on it.

 

[Armchair]

Army is working on it.

Thank you. Best news I've heard all day. You made my day!

 

[Aamir Hussain]

For those who want to know, Pakistan imported various versions of M-113 since the sixties:


Year Equipment Qty. Remarks
1963-64 M113 109 USA
1973-75 M113A1 300 USA
1979-80 M113A1 230 USA
1984-85 M901 ITV Tank Destroyer 24 USA
1986-87 M113A2 110 USA
1989-99 M113A2 775 Assembled from kits
2000-14 M113A3 1,047 USA
2011-15 M113A2 550 USA
2014-15 M113A2 500 USA
2013-14 M113 (VCC-1 & VCC-2 Versions) 622 Italy
2015 M113 73 Jordan
Total 4,340

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

For those who want to know, Pakistan imported various versions of M-113 since the sixties:


Year Equipment Qty. Remarks
1963-64 M113 109 USA
1973-75 M113A1 300 USA
1979-80 M113A1 230 USA
1984-85 M901 ITV Tank Destroyer 24 USA
1986-87 M113A2 110 USA
1989-99 M113A2 775 Assembled from kits
2000-14 M113A3 1,047 USA
2011-15 M113A2 550 USA
2014-15 M113A2 500 USA
2013-14 M113 (VCC-1 & VCC-2 Versions) 622 Italy
2015 M113 73 Jordan
Total 4,340

Are the old ones going to retire?

 

[Aamir Hussain]

Are the old ones going to retire?

I am guessing here that the ones received after 1984 are still in use.

 

[PanzerKiel]

I am guessing here that the ones received after 1984 are still in use.

A1 models are still in use as well.

 

[Blacklight]

The precious industrial capability in HIT - how is the world are they allowed to underutilize it and run it incompetently?

HIT has the capacity, the machinery, to become an exporter of armoured vehicles. Yet look at them. Taking salaries from the nation and flushing it down the drain. Shameless.

Not that you are wrong, but you just rubbed this whole salt mountain on us

 

[Armchair]

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Not that you are wrong, but you just rubbed this whole salt mountain on us

Wasn't my intention. People who care will sometimes be upset with you. People who don't care will always have a smile and a goodbye ready. : )

 

[Bossman]

Are the old ones going to retire?

They don’t retire they get rebuilt. USA has not built new M1s since 1993. Nothing happens to the shell of an armored vehicle. Engine, gearbox and other moving parts are replaced or rebuilt. This is the reasons we keep getting EDA M113s in bad shape because we can rebuilt them to almost new condition at fraction of the cost compared to new ones. HIT has been very busy doing this over the last few years. This is why a number of infantry divisions are converting to Mechanised.

 

[Blacklight]

Wasn't my intention. People who care will sometimes be upset with you. People who don't care will always have a smile and a goodbye ready. : )

I do understand that your intentions were well meaning, but this is actually a point of serious introspect. HIT's true potential is not being used. We need to seriously work on it.