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US granted armored vehicles arrive in Greece

The first 196 M-113 armored personnel carriers and armored infantry combat vehicles of different versions, from the stocks of the US Army, are being offloaded these days at the Military Port of Piraeus in Keratsini, where the ship carrying them from USA has docked.

According to press information today the ship sails from Piraeus, in the direction of Thessaloniki, to disembark there another 264 APC / AICV, from the 460 it is transporting in total.
It should be noted that the acquisition of 460 of these vehicles used by the US Army reserves, was free and only the transfer from the US was paid for at a cost of about 4 million euros. In addition, these vehicles will undergo any necessary inspection and maintenance on site at the 304 military factory and are expected to immediately join the Greek Army service (at least most of them), in units of ASDEN, replacing the Russian-made BMP-1 TDMA already serving for 20 years now in the Greek Army. The latter joined the Hellenic Army after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. It is very likely that some of the BMP-1s will be given to the Iraqi Army, which has already been granted 150 BMP-1s of the same type in the recent past.
More specifically, of the 460 used vehicles relating 225 are M113A2 APCs, 128 are M577A2 command vehicles, 106 M901A2 armored antitank carriers (equipped with a twin launcher for the M220 TOW) and one M106 4.2in mortar carrier. This M106 was the last vehicle of the type in functional status in the US before being given to Greece, which is now the largest user.