Description : The production of the transport of M113 troops
started in 1960 with the factory of firm FMC in San José. The many
components of this vehicle already made it possible to manufacture a great
number of different versions. It was noted that they could also be used
for the design of other armoured vehicles. At that time, the American army
had already chosen M114 like recognition and command vehicle but this
machine hardly showed great qualities and was not exported. FMC then
designed a vehicle using the power unit of the M11Á1 with diesel engine.
This vehicle was adopted then by Canada which controlled of them a hundred
and sixty fourteen specimens under the name of Lynx, and by the
Netherlands which accepted from them two hundred and fifty in the current
of the year 1968. This armoured vehicle is often called M133 and half.
Compared with M113, the Lynx is characterized by a lower silhouette, the
displacement of the engine to the back and four rollers instead of 5. The
aluminium case resists the projectiles of small gauge and the glares of
shell. The head of machine is behind, with the right-hand side of the
pilot. The radio operator one is on the left of the head of tank. The
compartment is located at the right back of the case. One reaches it by
plates of visit placed on the roof and the back face. The suspension is
ensured by torsion bars. The sprocket-wheel is with front and there are no
rollers support. The Lynx is amphibious. In the water, it is propelled to
5,6 km/h thanks to its caterpillars. Before the setting with water, the
break-blade placed at before is raised, the electric pumps of hold startup
and the rectangular sleeves assembled on the air intake just like on the
exhaust, to prevent that water does not penetrate in the driving
compartment. Their water line being very high, vehicles like the M-113 and
the Lynx can cross only slow rivers or lakes. If they were launched on the
open sea, these machines would probably finish by being submerged. The
head of machine has a small turret with hand drive operation M26, of
periscopes allowing to observe on 360°, of a machine-gun of 12,7 mm gone
up on an external support and of 1.155 cartridges. The radio operator
serves a machine-gun of 7,62 mm gone up on a pivot and equipped with 2.000
cartridges. Three smoke grenade launchers with firing electric are laid
out in front of each side of the vehicle and directed towards the front
one. The Dutch vehicle are a little lighter and their interior
installation is slightly different. Recently, all the machines were
equipped with a turret Suisse single-seat Oerlikon-Buhrle GBD-aoa armed
with a gun with 25 mm KBA-b which can draw either blow by blow, or with
175 cps/min, or with 570 cps/min. The equipment is of 200 shells,
including 120 explosives and 80 anti-tank devices. The Dutch Lynx profits
from an additional advantage: it fires same the ammunition as the fighting
vehicle from infantry developed by FMC for the Netherlands (of which the
gun is gone up on a single-seat turret with assisted commands).
Armament:
Machine gun of 12,7 mm, machine-gun of 7,62 mm
Dutch gun of 25 mm and coaxial machine-gun of 7,62 mm