The 75 mm gun, models M2 to M6, was the standard American medium caliber gun fitted to mobile platforms during World War II. They were primarily mounted...
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The 75 mm field gun M1897 on M2 carriage was a field gun and anti-tank gun which was used by the US Army during the interwar period and World War II. When...
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37 mm gun M3 is the first dedicated anti-tank gun fielded by United States forces in numbers. Introduced in 1940, it became the standard anti-tank gun of...
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fielded with the same two-man 25 mm Bushmaster cannon turret with the coaxial 7.62 mm machine gun. It only varies from the M2 in a few subtle ways and by role...
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gun M5 was an anti-tank gun developed in the United States during World War II. The gun combined a 3-inch (76.2 mm) barrel of the anti-aircraft gun T9...
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The 75 mm M2 and M3 tank guns of the M3 Lee and M4 Sherman Medium tanks, the 75 mm M6 tank gun of the M24 Chaffee light tank and the 75 mm gun of the...
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borrowed from the 105mm M2 howitzer. The gun was accepted for service as the 3-inch M5. A similar derivative of the T9 – the 3-inch M6 – was intended to be...
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Browning machine gun, which was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge, the M2 uses Browning's larger and more powerful .50 BMG (12.7 mm) cartridge. The design...
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Antiaircraft Gun Carriage T1 (Garford 7½ ton 6x4 truck chassis). 3-inch gun motor carriage T1 / M5 (high-speed tractor M2 chassis, M6 gun). 3-inch gun motor...
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M106-self-propelled 107 mm mortar M1064 mortar carrier M1129 mortar carrier Artillery Parrott rifle Rodman gun Dahlgren gun 75 mm gun M2–M6 M2, M3, M6 M1841 mountain...
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7.5 cm KwK 40 : contemporary German tank gun 75 mm Gun M2/M3/M6 : contemporary US tank gun amvas. "Guns and Ammo of Soviet Tanks". www.armchairgeneral...
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self-propelled anti-tank guns were 75 mm on M2 half-tracks (entering service in 1941) to complement towed artillery and M6 gun motor carriage a 37 mm on 4-wheel-drive...
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to the barrel of the 75 mm gun M2–M6 using an arm. This arm was connected to the rack via a pivoting joint and clamped to the gun with a split ring. This...
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The M3 gun motor carriage (M3 GMC) was a United States Army tank destroyer equipped with a 75 mm M1897A4 gun, which was built by the Autocar Company during...
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The M60, officially the Machine Gun, Caliber 7.62 mm, M60, is a family of American general-purpose machine guns firing 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges from...
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fired from within the vehicle. M2 w/ M3 37 mm Mechanized infantry units in the US Army were supposed to receive the M6 gun motor carriage, based on Dodge...
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gun re-chambered for French cartridge, produced for export QF 2.95-inch mountain gun – imported from Britain, used in Philippines 75 mm gun M2/M3/M6 M116...
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Tanks of the United States (section M6 heavy tank)
M6 heavy tank was a heavy tank built off of the similarly designed multi-turreted T1, armed with a 76.2 mm gun, a co-axial 37 mm gun, two .50 BMG M2 Browning...
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M4 Sherman (section Gun development)
(specified as a 75 mm gun, a 3-inch gun, or a 105 mm howitzer) could be mounted in the turret. The possibility of mounting the main gun of the M6 heavy tank...
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7.5 cm KwK 40 (category 75 mm artillery)
Sturmgeschütz IV StuK 40 Ordnance QF 75 mm F-34 tank gun 75 mm Gun M2/M3/M6 7.5 cm Pak 39 "fighting vehicle gun" "75-77 Mm Calibre Cartridges". Archived from...
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List of the United States Army munitions by supply catalog designation (section Class R1G (37 mm Gun; Ammunition for Anti-Tank Guns M3 and M3A1, and Tank Guns M5 and M6))
R1FGA = 37 mm Armor-Piercing-Tracer M80 Fixed Shell. NOTE: The M3 was the towed Anti-Tank gun version. The short-barreled M5 and semi-automatic M6 were tank...
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these had the US M6 37 mm gun and 0.30-inch M1919 machine guns replaced by a British Ordnance QF 2 pounder and 7.92 mm Besa machine guns. Others had the...
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Ordnance QF 17-pounder (redirect from Ordnance QF 17 pounder gun)
just 17-pdr) was a 76.2 mm (3 inch) gun developed by the United Kingdom during World War II. It was used as an anti-tank gun on its own carriage, as well...
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World War I-era French 75 mm gun, the British had ammunition stocks left over from then that could be used for the 75 mm M2 gun but these suffered due...
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ACH-47A. M6 Series The M6 system was one of the first systems to make use of the XM156/M156 universal mount, providing two M60C 7.62×51mm machine guns on either...
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heavy tank (Fisher) G-199 M7B1 gun motor carriage, 105-mm howitzer, Pressed Steel Car Co. G-200 M24 Chaffee 75-mm M6 gun G-201 M16 trailer, for clamshell...
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original 75 mm Gun M6 L/39 was replaced with a French D-925 90 mm low pressure gun, with a co-axial 0.50-inch (12.7 mm) M2 heavy machine gun. The bow...
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Combat Car, machine gun M2 = M2 Light Tank, 37 mm gun M3/M5 = M3 Light Tank, 37 mm gun M8 HMC = M8 Howitzer Motor Carriage, 75 mm M2 or M3 howitzer on M5...
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Artillery tractor (redirect from Gun tractor)
France, World War II; towed 25 mm AT guns Laffly S15T – France, World War II; towed the French 75 and short 105 mm field guns Mack NO – USA, World War II;...
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M1 carbine (redirect from M2 Carbine)
early 1944. It was fired with the .30 caliber Carbine M6 grenade blank cartridge to launch 22 mm rifle grenades. However, the stress from firing rifle...
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