Manufacturer catalog

FMC

FMC is the legacy U.S. industrial company behind tracked vehicle families such as the M113, the Bradley development line, and Dutch YPR-765 derivatives. The current FMC Corporation is an agricultural-sciences company, but this catalog uses FMC as the historical builder facet for the firm's former defense-manufacturing role.

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FMC is the catalog builder facet for the legacy U.S. industrial company that began as John Bean's spray-pump business, became Food Machinery Corporation, and later FMC Corporation. The modern company now describes itself as an agricultural sciences business.

The catalog matters because FMC's earlier vehicle work produced the M113 family and the Bradley development line, while Dutch YPR-765 variants trace to FMC's mechanized-infantry design work. Those defense businesses were later separated from FMC's chemical company, so the builder page preserves the historical production role that the weapon records point back to.

tracked armored vehiclesmechanized infantry vehiclesamphibious military vehicleslegacy defense manufacturing

Notable Systems

M113, Armored personnel carrier, Armored Vehicles

M113

Armored personnel carrier

FMC developed the baseline M113 armored personnel carrier, one of the best-known tracked vehicle families connected to this builder facet.

Sources: manufacturer, background
M2 Bradley, Tracked infantry fighting vehicle, Armored Vehicles

M2 Bradley

Tracked infantry fighting vehicle

FMC developed the Bradley line before production moved to United Defense and later BAE Systems, making it the key successor vehicle program for this legacy builder.

Sources: manufacturer, background
YPR-765, Tracked infantry fighting vehicle and armored personnel carrier family, Armored Vehicles

YPR-765

Tracked infantry fighting vehicle and armored personnel carrier family

The Dutch YPR-765 family traces back to FMC's mechanized-infantry design work and remains part of the builder's export lineage in the catalog.

Sources: manufacturer, background

Manufacturer History

  1. John Bean starts the company lineage

    FMC's own history page traces the company back to John Bean's 1883 spray-pump business, the origin point for the later FMC name chain.

    Sources: Our history

  2. Food Machinery Corporation name adopted

    The company history says the Bean company changed its name to Food Machinery Corporation after the 1928 acquisitions that made it a major food-machinery maker.

    Sources: Our history

  3. Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation

    FMC's history page records the 1948 rename to Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation after the Westvaco acquisition expanded the company's chemical business.

    Sources: Our history

  4. Company renamed FMC

    The official company history says the firm shortened its name to FMC in 1961.

    Sources: Our history

  5. FMC separates non-chemical businesses

    An SEC filing says FMC completed its split into FMC and FMC Technologies at the end of 2001, leaving the chemical company under the FMC name and separating the other businesses.

    Sources: FMC 2003 Form 10-K

Website links
Official siteOur historyCorporate headquarters2025 annual report

Public FMC pages describe the current company as an agricultural sciences business, so this profile preserves the earlier industrial and defense lineage that produced the cataloged tracked-vehicle families rather than the company's present crop-protection business.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Our historyPublisher: FMC Corporation | Note: Supports FMC's origin story, the 1928, 1948, and 1961 name changes, and the broader company-history context used in the summary and timeline. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Corporate headquartersPublisher: FMC Corporation | Note: Supports the current corporate headquarters address at FMC Tower in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Official sitePublisher: FMC Corporation | Note: Supports FMC's current corporate identity and public company context as an agricultural sciences business. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • FMC 2003 Form 10-KPublisher: SEC.gov | Note: Supports the 2001 split into FMC and FMC Technologies, and the corporate-separation context for the legacy industrial businesses. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • M113Publisher: WeaponSystems.net | Note: Supports FMC as the M113 developer and producer and provides the vehicle background used to connect the builder profile to the catalog entry lineage. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • M2 BradleyPublisher: WeaponSystems.net | Note: Supports FMC as the Bradley developer and producer in the vehicle's historical lineage before United Defense and BAE Systems. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • YPR-765 PRATPublisher: WeaponSystems.net | Note: Supports FMC's role in the YPR-765 development lineage and the mechanized-infantry family context used in the builder profile. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • FMC Tower 2019Publisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports image provenance and CC BY-SA 4.0 licensing for the FMC Tower photo used as the builder profile image. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Produced weapons

Category

Armored Vehicles

Troop carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, and protected mobility.

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M113, Armored personnel carrier, Armored Vehicles1955 Vietnam War, 1990 Gulf War +6 moreM113Armored personnel carrierBuilt in: United StatesA lightweight tracked armored personnel carrier that became a long-lived family of troop, command, mortar, medical, missile, and field-conversion vehicles. Its use spans Vietnam-era ACAV combat adaptations, Desert Storm coalition service, U.S. and partner-supplied Ukrainian evacuation and mobility vehicles, Israeli remote explosive conversions in Gaza, Egyptian M113s under IED threat in Sinai, Yemen service, and captured Iraqi Army vehicles used by Islamic State.
M2 Bradley, Tracked infantry fighting vehicle, Armored Vehicles2014 Russia-Ukraine War, 2014 Yemen Civil War +1 moreM2 BradleyTracked infantry fighting vehicleBuilt in: United StatesThe M2 Bradley is a tracked U.S. infantry fighting vehicle built around a 25 mm M242 chain gun, TOW launcher, coaxial machine gun, and protected infantry lift. Its M2A2 ODS and ODS-SA lines shaped the Ukraine-supplied fleet, while the M2A3/Bradley A3 digitized branch added improved sights, networked displays, inertial navigation, and armor provisions for U.S. armored formations and coalition force-protection missions.
YPR-765, Tracked infantry fighting vehicle and armored personnel carrier family, Armored Vehicles2014 Russia-Ukraine War, 2011 Sinai InsurgencyYPR-765Tracked infantry fighting vehicle and armored personnel carrier familyBuilt in: United States / Netherlands / BelgiumThe YPR-765 and Belgian AIFV-B are closely related branches of FMC's AIFV family, a tracked infantry fighting vehicle and armored carrier derived from the M113 lineage. Dutch and Belgian vehicles combine aluminum armor with spaced steel applique, road and amphibious mobility, and variant-specific weapons ranging from a 25 mm cannon to machine guns, TOW missiles, MILAN launchers, medical-evacuation fittings, or remote weapon stations. SIPRI transfer data and Dutch official aid lists identify 353 AIFV-APC/YPR tracked armored vehicles delivered or pledged to Ukraine, and Ukrainian border-guard reporting cited by Army Recognition shows Belgian-made AIFV-B-C25 vehicles joining the same wartime AIFV/YPR family in Ukrainian service.

Category

Artillery

Tube artillery, rocket artillery, and long-range ground fires.

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Support Equipment

Transport, logistics, recovery, command, engineering, and other enabling equipment.

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