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A field evaluation in 1982 showed that the older Poteet-designed M44 actually performed better, and the M50 was phased out. In 1984, the M44 ejector body and capsule holder were redesigned when it became necessary to replace the dies that had been used since 1967 to cast those metal parts. That model is still produced, with some adjustments [3]
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 ...
Mass production started in the summer of 1944 at the steel pipe factory of the Weiss Manfréd Company, where Chief Engineer Magasházi led production. After complaints were made by soldiers who tested the weapon relating to the experimental tripod the weapon was mounted on limiting maneuverability, production of the tripod was cancelled.
EBK-M44 Trigger pouch [69] Claymore United States Turkey: M18 anti-personnel mine produced under license by Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation. [70] M14: Anti-personnel mine produced under license by Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation. [71] M15: Anti-tank mine produced under license by Mechanical and Chemical Industry ...
M44 cyanide devices are used in the United States to kill coyotes and other canids. [35] Cyanide is also used for pest control in New Zealand, particularly for possums, an introduced marsupial that threatens the conservation of native species and spreads tuberculosis amongst cattle. Possums can become bait shy but the use of pellets containing ...
The M44 was extremely large (51,000 lb combat weight); carrying 24 infantry as well as a driver, bow gunner and vehicle commander. It was evaluated at Fort Knox and Aberdeen Proving Ground after the end of the war, but, ultimately, the army rejected the M44 as being too large - at the time, their tactical doctrine required infantry squads of ...
The KP m/44 (Finnish: Konepistooli malli 1944, lit. 'Submachine gun, model 1944'), nicknamed "Peltiheikki" or "Pelti-kp", which could be translated as "sheet-metal Heikki" and "sheet-metal machine pistol"/"sheet-metal submachine gun" respectively, was a Finnish 9mm copy and modification of the Soviet mass-produced 7.62 mm submachine gun PPS-43.
Modified-release dosage and its variants are mechanisms used in tablets (pills) and capsules to dissolve a drug over time in order to be released more slowly and steadily into the bloodstream, while having the advantage of being taken at less frequent intervals than immediate-release (IR) formulations of the same drug.