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Posted by muck4doo 2005-08-01 13:22|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It'll come in handy for the CU football season.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-08-01 14:28|| 2005-08-01 14:28|| Front Page Top

#2 An M-113 with a main gun? The picture in the article is really weird.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-08-01 14:29|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-08-01 14:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Why should Colorado have to use obsolete technology. They need aÃÂ Stryker!

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-01 14:34|| 2005-08-01 14:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Given municipal budget constraints a used BMP 1 would be the best buy.

Posted by MunkarKat 2005-08-01 14:36|| 2005-08-01 14:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Just a guess, but I believe that the vehicle in the picture is used by the Agressor Force at Ft. Irwin to simulate a Roosky tank.

Posted by tu3031 2005-08-01 14:38|| 2005-08-01 14:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I can find a couple of turreted M-113 mods, but neither quite matches the pic in the article. The TS-90 looks almost like a Sherman Firefly turret. The RO120 has a 120mm mortar tube, but no muzzle brake.

I think the editors were looking for a pic to make this article "scary" instead of showing the typical run-of-the-mill M-113, whether through bias or merely ignorance.

Posted by Dar">Dar 2005-08-01 14:43|| 2005-08-01 14:43|| Front Page Top

#7 used by the Agressor Force at Ft. Irwin to simulate a Roosky tank.

TU, I think you're correct. Right behind the rearmost guys head is what looks like a big red light. That would be the one that starts flashing when the "tank" is knocked out by the MILES system.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-08-01 14:53|| 2005-08-01 14:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Dar, my guess is ignorant bias.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-08-01 14:53|| 2005-08-01 14:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Ofercryinoutloud! That is a M-113 mocked up as a BMP-2 in Ft. Irwin for NTC (U.S. Army's National Training Center). Any armor that the police bought would not have any guns or cannons. Stupid Denver Post is such a liberal, slanted piece of crap.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-08-01 15:11|| 2005-08-01 15:11|| Front Page Top

#10 I dunno. Mebbe they feel they need the gun. Them pit bulls are so very scary.

Posted by slo jim 2005-08-01 15:18|| 2005-08-01 15:18|| Front Page Top

#11 I live south of Denver and I know I'll sleep better at night knowing they have a gun on it like that... never know when the People's Republic of Boulder will try anything.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2005-08-01 15:34|| 2005-08-01 15:34|| Front Page Top

#12 They could use it at CU games to shoot t-shirts into the crowd.

Posted by Brett 2005-08-01 17:06|| 2005-08-01 17:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Unless the Polizei bolt on some extra armor on the sides, I'd skip the M113. The side armor is for deflecting fragmentation from artillery, not for resisting penetration from something heavy and man-portable along the lines of large calibre rifle. And the boys back in Nam would put sandbags on the floor and ride on top cause they were a little light on bottom armor as well.

Posted by Angetch Huperetle8891 2005-08-01 17:40|| 2005-08-01 17:40|| Front Page Top

#14 That's what the CU Buffalos are going to need to beat my Texas Longhorns and Vince Young!!

Posted by Mr.Bill 2005-08-01 17:50|| 2005-08-01 17:50|| Front Page Top

#15 I think the editors were looking for a pic to make this article "scary" instead of showing the typical run-of-the-mill M-113, whether through bias or merely ignorance.

Not 'scary'. Try 'sexy'. A box-on-treads is nowhere near as eyecatching as a tank with a biiiig gun.

Posted by Pappy 2005-08-01 19:23|| 2005-08-01 19:23|| Front Page Top

#16 Brings new meaning to our Bronco's "Orange Crush" Defense. Ha Ha.

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