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The 155 mm gun motor carriage M40 was an American self-propelled artillery vehicle built on a widened and lengthened medium tank M4A3 chassis, but with a Continental engine and with HVSS (horizontal volute spring suspension), which was introduced at the end of the Second World War.
HX trucks are fitted with MAN/RMMV's modular military-specific cab, this tracing back to the Category 1 trucks that entered service in 1976. The evolution of this cab used for HX models is 290 mm deeper than preceding designs, and has more than 600 litres of gross stowage space in the rear.
M109A2 howitzer, self-propelled, medium, f-t, 8 ft longer barrel, 155 mm M109G howitzer, S-P, horizontal sliding breech, (export to Switzerland) M109 truck, van, 6 × 6, shop (G742) – M35 series 2½-ton 6x6 cargo truck
M7B1 and M7B2 105 mm Priest howitzer motor carriage; M8 Greyhound armored car; M16 multiple gun motor carriage; M19 gun motor carriage; M20 armored utility car; M29C Weasel supply carrier; M37 105 mm howitzer motor carriage; M39 armored utility vehicle; M40 155 mm gun motor carriage; M41 155 mm Gorilla howitzer motor carriage; M43 203 mm ...
The M43 shared the same chassis as the more widely produced M40 gun motor carriage, which instead mounted a 155 mm gun, and were designed by the Pressed Steel Car Company. A production run of 576 was planned originally, but in the end only 24 were produced and another 24 were converted from M40 hulls. [1]
The 155 mm howitzer motor carriage M41 (also known as the M41 Gorilla) was an American self-propelled artillery vehicle built on a lengthened M24 Chaffee tank chassis that was introduced at the end of the Second World War. Out of a planned run of 250, only 85 were produced before cancellation of the order at the end of 1945. [2]
The M44 was an American-made self-propelled 155 mm howitzer based on the M41 Walker Bulldog tank chassis, first introduced in the early 1950s. Flaws in its design prevented it from seeing action in the Korean War, but the type went on to serve in the armies of the United States, West Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom into the late Cold War ...
The gun crew were located in an open-topped area at the back of the vehicle. It mounted a 155 mm gun M1917, M1917A1 or M1918 M1, depending upon availability, a weapon derived from the nearly identical French 155 mm GPF gun of World War I vintage. The main armament had a traverse of 14° and elevation limits of +30° to -5°. [2]