Hezbollah has U.S. armored personnel carriers. But how did they get them?

[rangerrebew]

Hezbollah has U.S. armored personnel carriers. But how did they get them?
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff November 16

Jordanian Armed Forces M113 armored personnel carriers attack a simulated invasion force during a mission readiness exercise at the JAF’s Joint Training Center on Jan. 17. (Sgt. Youtoy Martin/U.S. Army)

Over the weekend images surfaced online of a Hezbollah parade in Qusair, Syria, featuring U.S. armored personnel carriers affixed with antiaircraft guns. The images prompted a flurry of speculation about the vehicles’ origin and whether the group had pilfered the stocks of the U.S.-supplied Lebanese military.

The armored personnel carrier, known as the M113, is one of the United States’ most ubiquitous armored vehicles and has been in service since the 1960s. The tracked semi-rhombus-shaped vehicle comes in numerous variants and can be outfitted to carry troops and artillery; its chassis was even used as the basis for a nuclear-missile carrier. It has appeared in every major U.S. conflict since the Vietnam War and is used by U.S. police departments and dozens of others countries’ militaries around the world.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/11/16/hezbollah-has-u-s-armored-personnel-carriers-but-how-did-they-get-them/

[Doug Loss]

Time to rig our own IEDs, I guess.  113s are pretty easy to take out; their aluminum armor is good against small arms up to 7.62, but anything heavier can penetrate, and AT missiles or roadside bombs will brew them right up.

[240B]

Not much of a threat to Israeli forces in the Golan. They are specially trained to take out tanks. These little bugs would be little more than target practice for them.

[SZonian]

Very HIGH profile...easy pickin's.