• Thumbnail for M8 armored gun system
    The M8 armored gun system (AGS), sometimes known as the Buford, is an American light tank that was intended to replace the M551 Sheridan and TOW missile-armed...
    133 KB (13,636 words) - 12:19, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for M35 tank gun
    was integrated onto the Marine Corps LAV-105, and the U.S. Army's M8 Armored Gun System and M10 Booker vehicles. The M35 was designed and developed by Benét...
    9 KB (832 words) - 03:55, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for M1128 mobile gun system
    General Dynamics Land Systems for the U.S. Army. The MGS program emerged after the 1996 cancelation of the Army's M8 armored gun system, the service's planned...
    35 KB (3,628 words) - 14:11, 12 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for M551 Sheridan replacement process
    name M8 Armored Gun System. However, purchases of the M8 were cancelled in 1997. The role was ultimately filled by the Stryker M1128 mobile gun system, which...
    17 KB (2,351 words) - 20:55, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for M551 Sheridan
    the Gulf War. The Army sought to replace the Sheridan with the M8 Armored Gun System, but this was canceled in 1996, late in its development. The Sheridan...
    62 KB (7,238 words) - 17:00, 8 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mobile Protected Firepower
    Mobile Protected Firepower (category Assault guns)
    Generation Armored Fighting Vehicle hull. BAE Systems offered a vehicle based on the M8 Armored Gun System. General Dynamics Land Systems offered a variant...
    23 KB (2,258 words) - 06:25, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for M8 Greyhound
    The M8 light armored car is a 6×6 armored car produced by the Ford Motor Company during World War II. It was used from 1943 by United States and British...
    39 KB (4,195 words) - 16:13, 8 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tanks of the United States in the Cold War
    United States. The Armored Gun System was a 1980s program to replace the M551 Sheridan in the 82nd Airborne Division. United Defense's M8 AGS was selected...
    28 KB (4,056 words) - 04:07, 25 August 2024
  • Establishment M8 armored gun system, a US Army light tank cancelled in 1996 M8 Greyhound, an American armored car used during World War II M8 tractor, an...
    3 KB (507 words) - 18:50, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Expeditionary Tank
    Combat Vehicle, Light (CCVL), which was type classified as the M8 Armored Gun System. The Expeditionary Tank and its low-profile turret were offered...
    9 KB (945 words) - 23:38, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for M10 Booker
    M10 Booker (category Post–Cold War armored fighting vehicles of the United States)
    for the Marine Corps' Mobile Protected Gun Program. It was later incorporated in the Army's M8 Armored Gun System light tank, which was canceled in 1996...
    15 KB (1,339 words) - 18:14, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for XM2001 Crusader
    the Future Combat Systems Manned Ground Vehicles program M1299, a U.S. Army replacement for the M109 howitzer M8 Armored Gun System, a U.S. Army light...
    14 KB (1,345 words) - 20:27, 22 December 2024
  • Individual Protection Systems (IPS) and Advanced Materials. Platform Survivability Product lines include armored, crashworthy, and armored-crashworthy seating...
    16 KB (1,522 words) - 07:02, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for M47 Patton
    bow machine gun. The T42 turret had a larger turret ring than the M26/M46 turret, and featured a needle-nose design, which improved armor protection of...
    37 KB (3,631 words) - 20:00, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for M1 Abrams
    140 mm main gun, as well as improved protection. The end of Cold War hostilities caused the end of the program. The tracked M8 Armored Gun System was conceived...
    216 KB (22,972 words) - 03:00, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Howitzer Motor Carriage M8
    The 75 mm howitzer motor carriage M8 was a self-propelled howitzer vehicle of the United States in use during World War II. It was developed on the chassis...
    15 KB (1,590 words) - 21:14, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for M46 Patton
    advocates for the use of tanks in battle. After World War II, most U.S. Army armored units were equipped with a mix of M4 Sherman and M26 Pershing tanks. Designed...
    18 KB (1,384 words) - 19:14, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Interim Armored Vehicle
    Vehicle Light (MTVL) and the M8 Armored Gun System (AGS), both tracked vehicles. The MTVL was based on the M113 armored personnel carrier and could carry...
    21 KB (2,472 words) - 03:05, 14 August 2024
  • redesignated as the M8 Armored Gun System. The AGS was canceled just before production in 1996 due to budget constraints. Interim Armored Vehicle, a U.S....
    22 KB (2,738 words) - 15:26, 11 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for M68 tank gun
    Archived from the original on 2008-12-02. Retrieved 2008-12-02. "M8 Armored Gun System - Archived 3/2004". www.forecastinternational.com. Forecast International...
    21 KB (2,511 words) - 03:57, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Future Scout and Cavalry System/TRACER
    M8 Armored Gun System and the M113 as the basis for the chassis. The group projected that the future scout program would cost $1 billion. The Armor Center...
    11 KB (1,369 words) - 03:11, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for CM-11 Brave Tiger
    older M48 Patton and the fire control system of the M1 Abrams. The Republic of China (Taiwan) established the Armored Vehicle Development Center in 1980...
    7 KB (712 words) - 21:59, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for T95 medium tank
    conjunction with the APFSDS-firing 90 mm T208 smoothbore gun, which had a rigid mount without a recoil system. In addition, although the tanks were designed with...
    17 KB (1,923 words) - 17:55, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for T92 light tank
    rifled gun in a cradle housing between two armored cupolas. The T185E1 was ballistically identical to the 76 mm gun M32 of the M41 light tank but it had a...
    8 KB (547 words) - 15:39, 2 January 2024
  • Level 6 armor plating for the hull frontal arc to the third road wheel, slat/cage armor skirting for the turret, steel or composite armored side skirts...
    10 KB (1,166 words) - 20:00, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for M103 heavy tank
    was designed to mount the 4.7 in (120 mm) M58 gun, fitted in the M89 turret mount. Using standard Armor-Piercing Ballistic Cap Tracer Rounds, it was capable...
    23 KB (2,090 words) - 12:14, 27 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for CM-12 tank
    China Army situated on Taiwan. The Armored Vehicle Development Center (AVDC) used the extra 100 fire-control system units from the production of the CM-11...
    5 KB (489 words) - 15:26, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for T69 tank
    the armored housings for the lenses of the stereoscopic rangefinder, as in other tanks of its day. The T69 was armed with the T178 90mm gun. The gun was...
    12 KB (1,640 words) - 21:56, 27 November 2024
  • Next Generation Combat Vehicle (category Post–Cold War armored fighting vehicles of the United States)
    support vehicle. It is similar to the M8 Armored Gun System program canceled in 1996, or the M1128 mobile gun system being retired in 2022. In November 2019...
    12 KB (1,297 words) - 23:45, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Obiekt 279
    Obiekt 279 (section Armor)
    separately. The gun was provided with a semi-automatic loading system with a rate of fire of 5–7 rounds/minute. Firing control system comprised optical...
    10 KB (909 words) - 19:17, 20 December 2024