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Australian-built machine gun carrier. Production of carriers began in 1934 and ended in 1960. [2] Before the Universal design was introduced, the vehicles were produced by Aveling and Porter, Bedford Vehicles, Ford of Britain, Morris Motors Limited, the Sentinel Waggon Works, and the Thornycroft company.
Considered a reconnaissance vehicle and a mobile machine gun position, the Mark VI was the final stage of development of the Carden Loyd series of tankettes. The Carden Loyd tankette was the prototype for the Universal Carrier .
The Bren was also used on many vehicles, the Universal Carrier also known as the "Bren Gun Carrier", [b] and on tanks and armoured cars. The Carrier was intended to use its "armour, speed and cross country performance" to bring the gun team into position from where it would fire dismounted; firing from the vehicle only in an emergency. [ 29 ]
The Loyd Carrier was one of a number of small tracked vehicles used by the British and Commonwealth forces in the Second World War to transport equipment and men about the battlefield. Alongside the Bren, Scout and Machine Gun Carriers , they also moved infantry support weapons.
This article lists British armoured fighting vehicle production during the Second World War.The United Kingdom produced 27,528 tanks and self-propelled guns from July 1939 to May 1945, as well as 26,191 armoured cars and 69,071 armoured personnel carriers (mostly the Universal Carrier).
The crew of a Vickers Mk VIb Light Tank servicing one of their Vickers machine guns in the field. Note stone wall camouflage paintwork unique to Malta Command. In muddy conditions an army Universal Carrier is used to tow a trolley-load of 250-lb bombs to a Vickers Wellington at RAF Luqa.
Armed with either a M2HB.50cal machine gun or a C5 GPMG 7.62mm NATO machine gun. [30] M548A2 – The logistical carrier variant of the M113 series, these were originally of the A1 series but had been upgraded to the A2 series at the same time as other M113A1s. Armed with either a M2HB.50cal machine gun or a C5 GPMG 7.62mm NATO machine gun. [30]
The M1126 ICV has a Protector remote weapon station with a universal soft mount cradle, which can mount either a .50 caliber M2 Browning machine gun, a 40mm MK19 grenade launcher or a 7.62×51mm NATO M240 machine gun. It is also armed with four M6 smoke grenade launchers.