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The vehicle was conceived as being armed with a primary armament of a 37-millimetre (1.5 in) anti-aircraft gun capable of firing 120 rounds per minute, mounted in an aircraft-style spherical gun turret. [3] The turret would have been supplemented by hull-mounted machine guns on production vehicles. The vehicle was promoted as being so fast it ...
The Tucker gun turret was a fast-traversing electrically powered gun turret widely described as having been mounted on World War II bombers and on some ground vehicles and small naval vessels like US Navy PT boats. [1] [2] [3] American industrialist Preston Tucker first developed the turret for the experimental Tucker armored car in 1938.
Similar types, based on 3-ton lorries, were produced in Britain, Canada and Australia, and together formed the most numerous self-propelled AA guns in British service. The U.S. Army brought truck-towed Bofors 40 mm AA guns along with truck-mounted units fitted with mechanized turrets when they sailed, first for Great Britain and then onto France.
[3] [4] The vehicle's armor was up to 12 mm thick, and the vehicle weighed 10 short tons (9.1 t). [1] The suspension was leaf spring on the front axle and vertical volute spring for the tracks. A 386-cubic inch (6.330 cc) White 160AX, 128-horsepower (95 kW), 6-cylinder gasoline engine gave the M15 a power-to-weight ratio of 15.8 horsepower per ...
Model 96 25 mm AT/AA gun (triple cannon) Vickers Type 40 mm AT/AA gun (double cannon) Type 11 75 mm AA gun; Type 88 75 mm AA gun; Type 4 75 mm AA gun; Type 3 80 mm AA gun; Type 99 88 mm AA gun; Type 10 120 mm AA gun; Type 14 10 cm AA gun; Type 3 12 cm AA gun; Type 5 15 cm AA gun; 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 naval gun
The AA-12 (Auto Assault - 12), originally designed and known as the Atchisson Assault Shotgun, is a fully automatic combat shotgun developed in 1972 by Maxwell Atchisson. . However, the original development by Atchisson seems to have produced only a few guns at prototype-level, with the development that ultimately led to the gun entering the market being done later by Military Police Systems ...
The larger gun required the removal of the third crewman in the turret (the wireless operator). Turret hatches were rearranged with the new gun and crew layout. About 2,000 units built. AA Mark I The Mark I fitted with a different turret (by Stothert & Pitt) mounting four 7.92 mm Besa machine guns able to elevate to near vertical and an AA ...
The M13 multiple gun motor carriage (MGMC), otherwise known as the M13 half-track, was a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun used by the U.S. Army during World War II that was armed with two .50 caliber M2HB heavy-barrel Browning machine guns.