I found a new Lynx user!

[maple_leaf_eh]

http://milinme.wordpress.com/category/bahraini-army/

Scroll down down down, and there they are, Lynxes! So the important question, when did the Dutch sell theirs?

The interesting subtext is the only other Lynx user is just across the Gulf in Iran, and theirs are ex-Canadian.

[Hans Mulder]

I seem to have missed the photo...can you post it please?

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Hans Mulder

I seem to have missed the photo...can you post it please?

Scroll down to the section Royal Bahraini Army - M113 Family, and look closely at the captions. They call them M113 1/2, and have the distinctive overhead gun, and step hole in the front mudguard.

[Hans Mulder]

They appeared to big to be Lynx and I scrolled right past...thanks for pointing them out. They always seem so small compared with the conventional M113 and without one to compare them too.

[Wayne McGee]

Just came across this old thread. Hate to call you out on your ID there Terry, and I really don't have the correct answer for you but, as far as I can see those vehicles have x5 road wheels vice X4 on a Lynx.
There are x4 photos of 1131/2 C&V on parade. The fourth one shows the side best and you can count wheels. Like I said, I don't know what they are, but I'm pretty sure they're not Lynxes

Cheers

Wayne

[Robin Craig]

I am going to go out on a limb here in a couple of ways.

First off I agree with Terry but not for the cut out but because of the shape and height of the turret and the location of it as well.

I would say Lynx but cant figure out if its ex cloggie oops Dutch or ex CF. Here is the photo that says Lynx to me.

R

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Wayne McGee

Just came across this old thread. Hate to call you out on your ID there Terry, and I really don't have the correct answer for you but, as far as I can see those vehicles have x5 road wheels vice X4 on a Lynx.
There are x4 photos of 1131/2 C&V on parade. The fourth one shows the side best and you can count wheels. Like I said, I don't know what they are, but I'm pretty sure they're not Lynxes

Cheers

Wayne

I see 4 road wheels, along with the sprocket and the idler. Definitely Lynx.
The step hole in the front plate of the track shrouds was a feature we first saw here in Canada on the newly purchased M113A2s in 1986. It had nothing to do with lynx or other variant....just a later feature from the manufacturer.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

there they are, Lynxes! So the important question, when did the Dutch sell theirs?

"Lynx" is the Canadian designation, the Dutch called them "M113 C&V" (Commando & Verkenning, or command and reconnaissance).

The Royal Netherlands Army phased out their 266 M113 C&Vs in the early 1990s and replaced them with the Fennek wheeled recce vehicle. Next to other equipment, the Netherlands exported 35 M113 C&V and 25 YPR-765 ACV to Bahrain around 1994-1997.

IIRC others were exported to Chile, but many C&V's ended up on ranges to serve as cannon fodder - see some pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirk_br...detail/?page=3

H.