Army supplementing M113s sent to Ukraine with $250 million for AMPVs under reconciliation

The Army plans to spend $250 million on 50 Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles to restock combat vehicles sent to Ukraine under a new contract award slated to land before April, according to the Pentagon's recent reconciliation spending plan submitted to Congress.

The money is designed to “replenish the M113 armored personnel carrier vehicles provided to Ukraine under Presidential Drawdown Authority,” according to the plan, obtained by Inside Defense.

The AMPV, built by manufacturer BAE Systems, is designed to replace the Army’s M113 Family of Vehicles for the service’s Armored Brigade Combat Teams. The service has sent at least 900 M113s to the Ukrainians since the Russian invasion in 2022, according to a January 2025 Pentagon fact sheet.

Congressional authorizers originally tasked the Pentagon with using the $250 million to buy 38 more AMPVs. One congressional source who spoke to Inside Defense this week attributed the additional 12 AMPV buys to a drop in per unit cost of the combat vehicle.

“BAE was able to find efficiencies and able to do it at a lower price,” they said.

Congressional appropriators carved out $126 million from the AMPV program in its FY-26 spending bill, attributing the cut to the Army Transformation Initiative; it cut another $13 million from the program, citing “support ahead of need” in the final bill.

The $139 million drop in procurement funds would reduce AMPV purchases in FY-26 from the 86 to 60, Inside Defense reported in July.