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The diesel burning heater is removed from the M113A1 – though numerous diggers note that this is not the case with the Australian Army's M577s (command post vehicles). [citation needed] M113A1 Medium Reconnaissance Vehicle (MRV) – Full designation Carrier, Fire Support, Full Track M113A1 (FS) Scorpion Turret [4] was an Australian variant ...
These "ACAV" sets were eventually adapted to U.S. Army M113s with the arrival of the army's conventional forces in 1965. The vehicles continued to operate in the role of a light tank and reconnaissance vehicle, and not as designed in theater. The interior of an M113 at the American Armored Foundation Museum in Danville, Virginia, July 2006
At the time the Army did not have any fire support vehicles; the M113A1 Fire Support Vehicle (FSV) later filled this role. [28] In 1965 it was decided to structure the RAAC as armoured (tank), cavalry and APC regiments. The M113s were to be operated by RAAC personnel, and be treated as fighting vehicles rather than only armoured troop ...
The M113½ Command and Reconnaissance Vehicle (M113 C&R) is a United States-built tracked reconnaissance armoured fighting vehicle, which was originally employed by the armed forces of the Netherlands and Canada and later Bahrain and Chile. Former Dutch vehicles were exported in the 1990s to Bahrain and Chile after being retired from service ...
M113A1 MRVs from the 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers at a range shoot. Canadian AVGP Cougars with the Scorpion turret. The Australian Army did not use the CVR(T), but did use the Scorpion turret – mounted on the FMC M113 armoured personnel carrier – as the Medium Reconnaissance Vehicle, or M113A1 MRV.
The M113 Fire Support Vehicle (FSV) was an Australian variant of the United States M113 armoured personnel carrier fitted with the turret from Alvis Saladin armoured cars. The FSV was introduced into Australian Army units in the mid-1960s following the withdrawal of the Saladins and was armed with a 76mm gun, a .30 calibre coaxial machine gun ...
A very similar, subsequent vehicle, attaching the turret from the Scorpion to the M113, was also known as the FSV. (This re-purposing of the turret was to be the only use of any part of the Scorpion by the ADF.) Entering service in 1976, it was later redesignated the M113A1 Medium Reconnaissance Vehicle (MRV).
The XM765 was based on the M113A1, upgraded with an enclosed turret and firing ports, so that the infantry could fight from within the vehicle. The Army evaluated the vehicle, but decided that they wanted a better protected and more mobile vehicle, [ 1 ] selecting instead the M2 Bradley .