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Ontos, officially the Rifle, Multiple 106 mm, Self-propelled, M50, was an American light armored tracked anti-tank vehicle developed in the 1950s. It mounted six 106 mm manually loaded M40 recoilless rifles as its main armament, which could be fired in rapid succession against single targets to increase the probability of a kill.
There were four versions of the Reising, two selective fire models: the M50 and M55, and two semi-automatic only variants: the M60, a .45 ACP carbine, [8] and the M65, chambered for the .22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge designed for training purposes. Reising Model 55 with wire stock folded Reising M50 with a stock made to imitate a MP40 for ...
North Vietnam [8] Nicaragua [6] Paraguay [6] [4] South Vietnam [9] Thailand [5] Taiwan [10] United Kingdom: the M-50 underwent intensive trials in 1951–1952 against the BSA model 1949 and the Sterling submachine gun. The latter was eventually selected. [11] United States In use with Green Berets serving alongside Montagnards in MIKE Force ...
Vietnam-era rifles used by the US military and allies. From top to bottom: M14, MAS 36, M16 (30 round magazine), AR-10, M16 (20 round magazine), M21, L1A1, M40, MAS 49 The Vietnam War involved the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) or North Vietnamese Army (NVA), National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (NLF) or Viet Cong (VC), and the armed forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Soviet ...
Its function as an air-mobile, self-propelled, anti-tank vehicle was eventually replaced in Vietnam by the troubled but effective M551 Sheridan which had a fully armored turret. The USMC used the M50 Ontos , which had an armored cabin and was armed with recoilless rifles, in a similar role (the running gear of the first Ontos prototype was the ...
Vietnam's popular online magazine Zing News, ultimately owned by one of the country's top digital groups, VNG Corp, said on Thursday it had to suspend publications for three months after a ...
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"This started in the Vietnamese community, but what we are seeing is these ballot parties are starting to occur in all the Asian communities," said Foo, whose group is part of the Asian American ...