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They were packed with ammunition, C4, flax-x, tnt, Bangalore torpedoes, M72 Laws, claymores, and fuel. All AFV (Armored Fighting Vehicles) burned when they were hit...but APC's (M113 APC/ACAV-Armored Personnel Carriers/Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicles) were all aluminum and aluminum melted quicker than steel.

Normally RPG fire was hot enough to ignite the tracks (slang for all fully tracked armored vehicles). Although M113 ACAVs were seen to burn to the ground from strictly land mine explosions.

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