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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.
The 105mm howitzer round was not the only artillery piece provided with APERS-T. Beehive rounds were also created for recoilless anti-tank weapons: the 90 mm and 106 mm mounted on the M50 Ontos. [4] APERS-T rounds were available for 90mm gun on M48 tanks and the 152mm gun on the M551 Sheridan armored reconnaissance/airborne assault vehicle ...
Ontos M50A1 with six 105 mm M40A1 recoilless rifles 297 M50 "Ontos" were built as self-propelled light armored tracked anti-tank vehicles. [ 21 ] They had six 105 mm M40 recoilless rifles as their main armament, which could be fired in rapid succession against a single target to guarantee a kill.
The Army rejected the M50 Ontos outright, but the Marines embraced it, putting it on the front lines of the Vietnam War's heaviest fighting. The weird armored vehicle that the US Army hated, the ...
US Marines with a 106 mm M40 recoilless rifle, during the Battle of Huế. A spotting rifle or ranging gun is a small-calibre rifle used as a sighting device for artillery.The ballistics of the spotting rifle are matched to those of the artillery piece, [1] so that if a shot from the spotting rifle lands on the target, it may be assumed that the main weapon will also do so.
They were delivered in 1956. A second series of prototypes was built with 4 recoilless rifles, but adoption of the 105mm American M40 recoilless rifle forced the reversion to two weapons. The Type 60 was designed for ambush attacks against enemy tanks, and mounting four weapons gave the vehicle a rather high profile.
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 same as on the M56, but it was replaced for the production variant). As for foreign operators, Morocco was the only export customer which used M56 Scorpions in actual combat.
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