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The 60mm HVMS autocannon was designed as an infantry support gun mounted on light armored vehicles.. The project commenced in 1977, originally as a joint development between IMI Systems of Israel and OTO Melara of Italy, whereby IMI Systems were expected to develop the gun and ammunition, and OTO Melara the autoloader and a lightweight two-man turret which could be mounted on a variety of ...
Pages in category "60 mm artillery" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... 0–9. 6 cm S-Bts K L/21; 60mm HVMS; B. Brandt 60 mm LR gun-mortar ...
Bofors 40 mm gun L/60 Sweden: World War II 40: Internal: Bofors 40 mm gun L/70 Sweden: Cold War 40: Internal: Ho-301 cannon Empire of Japan: World War II 40: Internal: QF 2-pounder pom-pom United Kingdom: World War I 40: Internal: Vickers S gun United Kingdom: World War II 40: Internal: Otobreda Fast Forty Italy: Cold War 40: External ...
Some of those were fitted with the IMI-OTO 60 mm Hyper Velocity Medium Support (HVMS) gun, and were often referred to as M-60. This variant was never used by the IDF. [5] Chile used its Shermans until 1999, when they were replaced by the Leopard 1. The few M-51s that Israel retained were converted into engineer vehicles and self-propelled ...
The Chilean Army acquired ex-Israeli Shermans for conversion to become their M-60 Sherman variant, fitted with a 60 mm Hyper Velocity Medium Support (HVMS) tank gun, which were used until at least 1989 (possibly even much later, probably until 1999), when they were replaced by French AMX-30 and German Leopard 1 main battle tanks (MBTs).
Dr. James Bender, a former Army psychologist who spent a year in combat in Iraq with a cavalry brigade, saw many cases of moral injury among soldiers. Some, he said, “felt they didn’t perform the way they should. Bullets start flying and they duck and hide rather than returning fire – that happens a lot more than anyone cares to admit.”
The Army is also producing a series of videos to get troops to think about moral injury before they are sent into battle. In four of these 30-minute videos, to be completed later this spring, combat veterans talk about their experiences and how they dealt with the psychological damage, said Lt. Col. Stephen W. Austin, an Army chaplain with the ...
Two Russian Orlan-10 drones were downed by Stormer HVMs in August 2022. [9] In February 2023, footage emerged of the system downing an Iranian-supplied Shahed 13x-series drone. [10] On 11 March 2023, the Russian Ministry of Defense released video footage showing a Stormer HVM being destroyed by a Russian ZALA Lancet loitering munition. [11]