Mystery Lynx

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by rob love

Can't say about the Lynx, but I have heard the surplus M113s are all heading out that way to be scrapped. There is a discussion on it over at gun nuts.
I have seen batches of them heading down the TransCanada on flatbeds. Everything from UN white examples to some fairly pristine upgraded examples. I guess the international sales hoped for on these did not materialize.

Or maybe ITAR and Controlled Goods legislation had their way...

[rob love]

Certainly those programs have limited the sales to some countries, and to civilians. But the push these days is really onto wheeled vehicles with high speed. No country is lining up for 40 year old armoured personal carriers that are in need of major upgrade. Some discussions I have read show that a few of the countries that might want them, don't have the cash to maintain them, much less upgrade them to todays standards.

We had the TLAVs (M113 upgraded) with the Soucy rubber tracks overseas. They seemed to perform quite well overall. But one must realize that the hulls are stripped bare, cut up, extensions added, new powerpacks added, and a host of other additions not for posting on the internet. So to some country that is worried that they cannot afford the $20K expense to replace the track every 8.000 miles, upgrades are a pipe dream.

Not sure why the hulks have to be transported all the way to BC for disposal.......raw metal going to China perhaps?

[DanJahn]

Hello group.

We at the Canadian Military Education Centre and Museum in Chilliwack, B.C. have also heard of APC's heading for Victoria to be scrapped.

Dan

[Lynn Eades]

James Swan won the disposal tender for about 50 of them in New Zealand. Big Brother stopped closure and they re appeared, (probably)as some variation of these.

[Mike Baker]

I thought they were Lynx because they appeared to have a small turret on top. Too bad if they're going to be cut up, because they looked like they had been very well maintained.

And I echo the question of why they would be brought here for scrapping - BC Ferries charges me a small fortune to take my F-150 across the Strait of Georgia, so I can only imagine what it costs to send an 18-wheeler across with two armoured vehicles on the back. Surely it would be cheaper to scrap them near where they were based?

Mike

[chris vickery]

I am wondering if these are the same two I saw headed North on Hwy 11 Trans Canada earlier in the week? If so, they at least came from or through Ontario.
I wonder how a certain someone here on MLU ended up with one of these in his collection....recently.

[Harry Moon]

I've seen one or two trailers of them at a truck stop in Chilliwack and yes indeed they are going to a scrapper in Victoria that won the bid to scrap them....