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The primary difference between the Army and the U.S. Marine Corps rifles is that while the U.S. Marine Corps M40 variants use the short-action version of the Remington 700/40x which is designed for cartridges having an overall length of 2.750 inches (69.85 mm) or less (such as the .308 Winchester/7.62×51 mm NATO), the Army M24 uses the ...
Taking the M27 as the basis for a new design, the Army developed an improved version of the M27 that was type-designated the M40 106-mm recoilless rifle in 1955. [22] Although unsuitable for military purposes, M27 recoilless rifles were used to trigger controlled avalanches at ski resorts and mountain passes in the United States. [23]
RCL 3.45 inch Gun: Broadway Trust Company 3.45 in (88 mm) SS RCL United Kingdom: M67: 3.54 in (90 mm) SS RCL United States: 1960s Pvpj 1110: Saab Bofors Dynamics: 90x760 mm HEAT SS RCL Sweden: 1953 95 S 58-61: 95 mm SS RCL Finland: 1958 LG 40: Krupp: 105×155 mm. R SS RCL Nazi Germany: 1942 LG 42: Rheinmetall: 105×155 mm. R SS RCL Nazi Germany ...
The Corps celebrated the M40 rifle with Redfield scope, the same type of weapon used by legendary Marine sniper Sgt. Charles "Chuck" Mawhinney.
The following 18 pages use this file: List of equipment of the Cypriot National Guard; List of equipment of the Egyptian Army; List of equipment of the Estonian Defence League
M48A1 tank, combat, gun stabilized in elevation and azimuth, 90 mm M48A1E1 tank, combat, full-track, British 105 mm (M48A1 chassis) M48A1E2 tank, combat, full-track, diesel engine, 90 mm
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 ...
M40 field protective mask, a United States military gas mask; M40 rifle, a sniper rifle; M40 gun motor carriage, a United States self-propelled artillery vehicle; M40 recoilless rifle, an anti-tank gun; M/40 automatic cannon, a Swedish heavy machine gun; Macchi M.40, a prototype 1920s Italian catapult-launched reconnaissance seaplane