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The M3 tripod is a weapon mount used on the M2HB Browning machine gun and the Mk 19 grenade launcher. The M3 tripod has a total weight of 20 kilograms (44 pounds). [ 1 ] The M205 tripod , formerly the XM205, is intended to replace it.
Approximately 1200 Mk 4 Gun Pods were manufactured by Hughes Tool Company, later Hughes Helicopter, in Culver City, California. While the system was tested and certified for use on the A-4, the A-6, the A-7, the F-4, and the OV-10, it only saw extended use on the A-4, the F-4, and the OV-10.
The M2 has an effective range of 1,830 metres (2,000 yd) and a maximum effective range of 2,000 metres (2,200 yd) when fired from the M3 tripod. In its ground-portable, crew-served role as the M2HB, the gun itself weighs 84 pounds (38 kg) and the assembled M3 tripod another 44 pounds (20 kg).
The shooting comes as Michigan communities are still recovering from two mass shootings in the state in recent years. In February 2023, a gunman killed three Michigan State University students and ...
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Edson Range is a firing range complex at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, near Oceanside, California. It is named for Marine Major General "Red Mike" Edson, "a World War II Medal of Honor recipient and a distinguished small arms marksman proponent." [1] This rifle-qualification complex is home to four of the largest firing ranges on the base. [2]
Two teenagers were shot, one fatally, just outside the Michigan State Fair in what police described late Saturday as an isolated incident. Police in the Detroit suburb of Novi, where the fair is ...