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However, as the production order for 6 pounder tank guns had not been acted on, none of these were available and the first 65 tanks were built with the 2 pounder. [8] Two Vickers machine guns were carried as secondary armament, one in the hull and a second mounted coaxially beside the main gun.
This list contains weapons that are classified as crew-served, as the term is used in the United States military.. While the general understanding is that crew-served weapons require more than one person to operate them, there are important exceptions in the case of both squad automatic weapons (SAW) and sniper rifles.
Experimentally, the Quadmount was also tested in 1942 on a M3 Light Tank in place of the tank's turret but the project was terminated. [6] Even as production of the two MGMC vehicles was underway, there was work to increase the firepower. Re-working the M33 to take four machine guns produced the M45 mounting.
A graphic of USCG Sentinel-class cutter modifications made to the Damen Stan 4708 patrol vessel design USCGC Raymond Evans, the tenth Sentinel-class cutter. The vessels are armed with a remote-control Mark 38 25 mm Machine Gun System and four crew-served .50-caliber (12.7 mm) M2HB heavy machine guns.
One FN M3P machine gun built by FN Herstal, [2] a variant of the Browning AN/M3 developed for aviation use during World War II. It is a 12.7 mm (.50) caliber machine gun with an electronic trigger that can be fired from both the remote control unit (RCU) located in the drivers cab, and from the handstation located in the Avenger turret.
The Marmon-Herrington Combat Tank Light Series were a series of American light tanks/tankettes that were produced for the export market at the start of the Second World War. The CTL-3 had a crew of two and was armed with two .30 cal (7.62 mm) M1919 machine guns and one .50 cal (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine gun. They were originally designed to ...
AC3 Thunderbolt (Australian Cruiser III) [2] [3] was a cruiser tank designed and built in Australia in World War II as the successor to the AC1 Sentinel.Like the Sentinel the AC3 featured a one piece cast hull and turret.
The M240 machine gun, officially the Machine Gun, 7.62 mm, M240, is the U.S. military designation for the FN MAG, [6] a family of belt-fed, gas-operated medium machine guns that chamber the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. [1] The M240 has been used by the United States Armed Forces since the late 1970s.