This post collects visual evidence of instances of the U.S.-made M113 armored personnel carrier, and its variants, destroyed, captured and otherwise put out of action in Ukraine, records and counts them, and will be regularly updated.
This will be useful to whoever will want to write or update the operational history of the M113 thing in Ukraine or one in general, or, say, illustrate a book on NATO's next disaster now happening in Ukraine.
The U.S. M113 APC and variants, including, a Dutch YPR-765, a U.S.-designed and made AIFV based on the M113 APC, "an IFV for the poor Euro", "a poor Euro Bradley", and a similar Danish M1134GDK
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The truth of the matter is that the US-designed and built M113 APC and its bastardized versions, like the Dutch YPR-765 AIFV, is a poor piece of military equipment even by the lowly standards of the US military-industrial complex, suitable for nothing more serious than colonial warfare against under-armed opponents or terrorizing civilian populations in third-world countries.
In WW2 the US had the worst tanks and armored vehicles of all the warring nations and the capitalist-run US military-industrial complex continues to live up to its tradition of bad workmanship by producing, and dumping (aka force-selling) on its satellites and proxies, overpriced junk like the under-powered, under-protected and under-armed aluminum crapcan / coffin that the US M113 is.
Total so far, per OSINT BDA: 53, for actual losses, multiply by 3 to 4, that is 200 units or thereabouts, conservatively estimated
Newest on top.
No. 53 US M113 knocked out and burned, remains captured, January 2023
No. 52 Dutch bastardazed M113, aka YPR-765, captured, January 2023
No. 50-51 M113 APC x 2, wiped out, January 2023
No. 49 German M113 APC variant knocked out and captured, December 2022
No. 48 US M113 APC, vaporized, December 24, 2022
No. 47 US supplied M113 APC, destroyed, December 2022
No. 45-46 US M113 x 2 destroyed, December 2022
No. 44 US M113 burns with crew and landing party, December 05, 2022
No. 41 Dutch bastardized M113 aka YPR-765, burned, November 2022
No. 40 Danish M113G4DK, Danish bastardized M113 knock-off, knocked out and abandoned at Svatovo, November 2022
No. 39 US M113 APC destroyed at Sporny, November 2022
No. 38 US M113 APC knocked out and captured, November 2022
No. 37 Dutch YPR-765 (bastardized US M113 knock-off), destroyed, November 2022
No. 36 US M113 APC knocked out, east of country, November 2022
Nos. 33-35 US M113 APC x 3 knocked out using a Lancet UCAV, November 2022
No. 32 US M113 knocked out and abandoned, east of country, November 2022
Nos. 30-31 US M113 annihilated in Ukraine, late October 2022
No. 29 Dutch YPR-765 (M113 based AIFV) destroyed, October 2022
No. 28 US M113 knocked out of action and captured, south of Ukraine, October 2022
No. 27 Dutch YPR-765, a M113 based AIFV, destroyed east of Ukraine, October 2022
No. 26 M113 taken out of circulation east of Ukraine, October 2022
No. 25 M113 captured south of Ukraine, October 2022
No. 24 sand-colored US M113 APC hit twice, destroyed, somewhere south of Ukraine, October 2022
No. 23 US M113 APC - images show what happens when a US-made M113 APC stops a tank round as happened recently east of Ukraine, late Sept or early Oct 2022.
No. 22
No. 20
Per various estimates, more than two-thirds of the YPR-765 AFVs supplied by the Dutch have already been destroyed, many on their first attempt at action, which is a terrible attrition rate for the M113 thingy but not at all surprising since, as has been mentioned already on blog, the US-designed and built M113 is a subpar combat vehicle, to put it mildly.
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No. 12
No. 11
No. 10 YPR-765 (M113 based AIFV), captured from NATO's proxies in Ukraine
No. 9 US M113 APC, seen on footage burning.
No. 8 Dutch YPR-765 (US M113 based IFV), defeated in action, outmaneuvered, captured
No. 7 U.S. M113 APC, an aluminum crapcan utterly destroyed by something
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No. 6 U.S. M113 APC, blows up on a landmine in east of country
Another, and this time a proper US-made, M113 APC is seen in the image below destroyed somewhere in east of country.
Per report, it was ambushed and destroyed with an artillery strike together with its crew and mounted troops who might have included some Western NATO militants.
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No. 3-5 Dutch YPR-765 (M113 APC), destroyed in South of country
Here are three Dutch-supplied Nato-spec YPR-765 (U.S.-designed and built M113) armored personnel carriers destroyed or knocked out of action in recent fighting during the disaster of a Zelenski regime offensive in the south which is still continuing.
The Dutch YPR-765 APC, the same as the U.S. M113 APC, is another useless and incapable Nato-standard weapons system and/or combat vehicle, like most, if not all, of the US-designed and built weaponry which is only good to shoot unarmed civilians or to confront under-armed forces in the type of colonial warfare that the United States military only knows how to wage and still has been defeated every time it attempted it since WW2.
These YPR-765 APCs were lost in their first attempt at action.
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No. 2 Dutch YPR-765 (M113 APC), captured from Zelenski's forces
Here is footage of what is maybe only the first Dutch-suppled version of the U.S. M113 APC, YPR-765, captured from Zelenski's forces.
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No. 1 U.S. M113 APC
What is reported to be a US-supplied M113 APC knocked out of action and subsequently abandoned by members of the self-styled Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Zelensky gangs.
The M113 is a fully tracked armored personnel carrier (APC) and another turd of a U.S. designed and built weapons system, poorly designed and even worse built, good for absolutely nothing, except serving as a sitting duck, hence the nickname "ATM operator's dream".
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