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The M53/59 Praga is a Czechoslovak self-propelled anti-aircraft gun developed in the late 1950s. It consists of an armoured version of the Praga V3S six-wheel drive truck chassis, armed with a modified version of the M53 twin 30 mm (1.2 in) anti-aircraft gun mounted on the rear, which can be removed and used to provide ground support.
The M53 was produced from 1952 to 1955, being replaced with the M55 in 1956. [2] The M55 first saw service in 1956 with the US army [1] and was used during the Vietnam War until around 1969, and subsequently withdrawn from service in the US military in favor of the M110 howitzer. [3] [4] Other NATO countries also received some. The last M55 in ...
The engine was derived from the Atar series by adding a bypass duct aft of the 3rd compressor stage. The first 3 stages were enlarged to give an LP and HP section on the same shaft. It is a single shaft turbofan, or continuous bleed/bypass turbojet. [1] It was originally called the Super Atar 9K50 and was designed for sustained flight at Mach 2 ...
Type 91 10 cm howitzer Japan: 2nd Sino-Japanese War: 105: Obuzierul Krupp, calibrul 105 mm, model 1912: Romania: World War I 105: 105 mm MÁVAG 40/43M Hungary: World War II 105: 10.5 cm Feldhaubitze 98/09 German Empire: World War I 105: 10.5 cm leFH 16 German Empire: World War I 105: 10.5 cm leFH 18 Nazi Germany: World War II 105: 10.5 cm leFH ...
The Vz.53 (Also widely known as the M53 in Western sources) is an anti-aircraft weapon system produced in Czechoslovakia during the 1950s. It combines four Vz.38/46 ( DShK ) 12.7 mm Machineguns on a wheeled mount with a 360° traverse.
M53 155mm Self-Propelled Gun, an American-made tracked, self-propelled gun; M53, a Hungarian submachine gun developed from the Soviet PPS-43 submachine gun; see PPS submachine gun#Variants; Macchi M.53, an Italian military reconnaissance floatplane of 1928; Snecma M53, a French afterburning turbofan engine developed for the Dassault Mirage 2000 ...
The towed 240 mm howitzer M1 was difficult to use due to its weight. Experience with the 155 mm howitzer on the M4 chassis suggested it might be possible to mount it on the Heavy Tank T26E3 (which was formally named "heavy tank M26 Pershing" in March 1945) chassis, and that the 8-inch gun could also be mounted as part of a planned "heavy combat team" using the same chassis (other members would ...
In Yugoslavia, an unlicensed, near-identical copy was produced as the Zastava M53. The MG 42 lent many design elements to the Swiss MG 51 and SIG MG 710-3 , French AA-52 , American M60 , the Belgian MAG general-purpose machine guns, and the Spanish 5.56×45mm NATO Ameli light machine gun .