Ammo armoured vehicles

[Marcello]

Originally Posted by Jack_Dionne

Seems odd though, how an M113 can be used as an ammo carrier when you compare its size to other APC of similar size from different countries.
How about levelling the playing field.

There is just only one M113 ammo carrier in the game, in the iranian OOB. It may well be a mistake or perhaps the iranians did actually convert some of them with proper stowage (and as noted the type is inherently more suitable than others for this purpose).I know from experience this sort of info isn't easy to come by...
Otherwise in the game as in real life the standard ammo carrier variant of the M113 is the M548, which is basically an unarmored truck on tracks. There are a few MT-LBs, whose prime mover variant has some racks for artillery ammunition if I rememeber correctly, so it could indeed be used for ammo resupply in a pinch.And so on.

Originally Posted by Jack_Dionne

How many people can say they have even been in an APC let alone compare something they have never actually been in.

So you have been in APC and you tell us it's roomy. Well, actually nobody here has disputed that. A guy who has actually dealt with the issue at hand, ammo stowage, tells us:

The issue with ammo is the bulk and weight of the packages. When simply dumped in a crew compartment with no proper preparation, these large heavy lumps will fly about like loose rocks and pulverise any crew.

Which, if you think about it, makes perfect sense. A single 152/155mm shell weighs more than 40kg for example, you definitively are not going to just stack a bunch of them in the troops compartment and then merrily drive around...