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The T19 howitzer gun motor carriage is an artillery purpose M3 Half-track, with a howitzer emplaced on the tracked portion of the frame. It was 20 ft 2 in long, 7 ft 3.5 in wide, 7 ft 8 in high, with a weight of 9.54 short tons. The suspension consisted of semi-elliptical longitudinal leaf springs for the wheels and vertical volute springs for ...
200 mi (320 km) Maximum speed. 45 mph (72 km/h) on road. The M3 half-track was an American armored personnel carrier half-track widely used by the Allies during World War II and in the Cold War. Derived from the M2 half-track car, the M3 was extensively produced, with about 15,000 standard M3s and more than 38,000 variant units manufactured.
75 mm L/18.4. Half track: M3; Retired 1942 312 312 some received 2nd hand Equipped with 75 mm Pack Howitzer M1 [106] [107] T19 HMC "Howitzer Motor Carriage" Ordnance Department / Diamond T United States 105 mm L/22. Half track: M3; Retired 1942 324 324 Equipped with M2A1 gun [106] [107] PTH105-VN15: Vietnamese Union Enterprise Vietnam — 105 ...
M7 Priest. The 105 mm howitzer motor carriage M7 was an American self-propelled artillery vehicle produced during World War II. It was given the service name 105 mm self propelled, Priest by the British Army, due to the pulpit-like machine gun ring, and following on from the Bishop and the contemporary Deacon self-propelled guns.
T19 Howitzer Motor Carriage. T30 Howitzer Motor Carriage. T48 Gun Motor Carriage. Type 1 Ho-Ha. Type 98 20 mm AA half-track vehicle. Type 98 Ko-Hi. Categories: Armoured fighting vehicles of World War II. Half-tracks.
42 mph (68 km/h) The M5 half-track (officially the Carrier, Personnel, Half-track, M5) was an American armored personnel carrier in use during World War II. It was developed in 1942 when existing manufacturers of the M2 half-track car, and M3 half-track could not keep up with production demand. International Harvester (IH) had capacity to ...
The BA-20, after which the BA-30s fully welded hull was designed. Developed at the NATI Institute, it was hoped that the BA-30 would be an improvement on the off-road performance of the previous BA series and was based on the chassis of the NATI-3 half-tracked transporter, whereas its armored hull was fully welded like the BA-20.
The breech ring of the howitzer M2 was modified in March 1940 before large-scale production began, creating the 105 mm howitzer M2A1 on carriage M2. [ 1 ] In 1939, the new howitzer cost $25,000, which was three times more than a 75 mm field gun M1897 on M2 carriage , and its adoption required procurement of a colossal amount of new ammunition ...