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The project was approved in June and the vehicle received the designation Heavy Tank T1. Initially, a multi- turreted design was proposed, with two main turrets each armed with a low-velocity T6 75 mm (2.95 inch) gun, a secondary turret with a 37 mm gun and a coaxial .30 caliber (7.62 mm) machine gun , and another secondary turret with a 20 mm ...
M6 gun motor carriage. The 37 mm gun motor carriage M6, also known as M6 Fargo, and under the manufacturer (Dodge)'s designation WC55, was a modified Dodge WC52 light truck mounting a light anti-tank gun. It was used by the United States Army for infantry support and as a mobile anti-tank gun. It operated from late 1942 to January 1945 in the ...
Horizontal Volute Spring Suspension. Operational. range. 110 mi (180 km) Maximum speed. 21 mph (34 km/h) The M6 high-speed tractor was an artillery tractor used by the US Army during World War II. Manufactured by Allis-Chalmers, it was used to tow heavy artillery pieces, such as the 8-inch Gun M1 and 240 mm howitzer M1. Its G-number was (G-184).
Lend-Lease based upon Universal Carrier, used to tow artillery. Windsor Carrier. Canada. variation of Universal Carrier. M3A1 Half-track. Various, United States. M5 Half-track. International Harvester, United States. similar to M3 produced for Lend-Lease.
Overview. Originally formed as the Canadian Cavalry Corps in 1910, [1] Canada's first tank units were not raised until late in 1918. Initially, these units were considered to be part of the Machine Gun Corps and the 1st Canadian Tank Battalion; 2nd Canadian Tank Battalion and the 3e Bataillon de chars d'assaut were all too late to join the ...
Grizzly I cruiser. The Grizzly I was a Canadian -built M4A1 Sherman tank with relatively minor modifications, primarily to stowage and pioneer tool location and adding accommodations for a Number 19 radio set. They used the same General Steel hull castings as late Pressed Steel -built M4A1 (75)s, to include both the standard hull and the later ...
T30 heavy tank. The Heavy Tank T30 (Informal designated The Tiger Killer) was a World War II American tank project developed to counter new German tanks, such as Tiger I, Tiger II, and tank destroyers, such as the Jagdtiger, or Soviet heavy tanks, such as IS-2 or IS-3. The T30 was designed at the same time as the T29 Heavy Tank.
The Pershing heavy tank (named after General Pershing) was the only heavy tank used in combat by the US armed forces during World War II. An earlier design, the Heavy Tank M6, was not accepted for large scale production and only 40 were produced. Work began in early 1945 to develop a significantly heavier variant of the M26 Pershing, the T32 ...