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A gun carriage is a frame or a mount that supports the gun barrel of an artillery piece, allowing it to be maneuvered and fired. These platforms often had wheels so that the artillery pieces could be moved more easily. [1] Gun carriages are also used on ships to facilitate the movement and aiming of large cannons and guns. [2]
The July 1943 Ordnance Publications for Supply Index (OPSI); page 68) sums up in detail, the coverage of Group G as: "Armored, half-track, and scout cars; gun, howitzer, and mortar motor carriages; cargo, mortar, personnel, half-track and universal carriers; armored amphibian, light, medium, and heavy tanks; light, medium, heavy, crane and amphibian/track-type tractors; wheeled tractors ...
M6 gun motor carriage, (T21), M7 howitzer motor carriage, (T32) M8 howitzer motor carriage, (T17E1), Scott; M9 gun motor carriage, (T40), M10 gun motor carriage, (T35E1), M11 not used; M12 gun motor carriage, (T6), M13 multiple gun motor carriage; M14 multiple gun motor carriage; M15 multiple gun motor carriage; M16 multiple gun motor carriage
The first carriage was made of wood, later ones of iron. However, this type of carriage soon proved inconvenient for guns that were as heavy as the 19 cm M 1864 and 1870, and so these carriages were abandoned. [29] The last model of these carriages could elevate the gun to 20°, decline it to 5° and weighed 2,835 kg. [30]
The 155 mm self-propelled gun Mk F3, or the Canon de 155 mm Mle F3 Automoteur (Cn-155-F3-Am), was developed in the early 1950s by the French Army to replace their American M41 Gorilla 155 mm self-propelled guns. The Mk F3 is the smallest and lightest 155 mm motorized gun carriage ever produced, and because of its size and low cost it has found ...
1,015 lb (460 kg) (not including machine gun and equipment) The Howie machine gun carrier was a 1937 light U.S. Army scout and machine-gun vehicle prototype, created to prepare for World War II . The Howie (also called the Howie-Wiley and nicknamed the " belly flopper " [ 3 ] ) never entered production.
The US Navy Ordnance Department under Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren awarded Wiard a contract to produce two 15 in (381 mm) rifled guns of about the same weight as the smoothbore XV-inch (381 mm) Dahlgren shell gun. Wiard was to be paid $10,750 in 1860s money for each gun. The result was probably one of the most complex guns ever cast in one piece.
The M167 VADS consists of a 20mm M168 cannon, linked ammunition feed system, and a fire control system in powered turret, mounted on an M42A1 towed carriage. [ 1 ] The M167A2 VADS was modified with an improved fire-control subsystem.