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J24 special tools for large caliber free flight rocket material. (group D) J25 tool set special, organizational maintenance, missile repair, Corporal XSSM-A-17. J26; J27; J28 Special Tool Sets, for special weapons,(group D) J29 Special Tool Sets, for guided missiles (group Y) S1. Special Tool Sets, for Corporal guided missile materiel; S2 ...
Soldiers complained that the front sight required special tools to be adjusted. On August 23, 1985, then- U.S. Under Secretary of the Army James R. Ambrose suspended M249 production pending the development of a product improvement program (PIP.) [ 35 ] Congress removed funds for the M249 from the Fiscal Year 1986 defense budget, then ...
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It combined the 2K11 Krug chassis with a modified version of the 240 mm M240 mortar, the 2B8 developed by Yuri N. Kalachnikov at the Perm Machine Building Plant. [1] It was introduced into the Soviet Army in the early 1970s as the 2S4 Tyulpan ("Tulip"), reaching full operational status in 1975, being designated by Western intelligence as the M ...
The BM-24 is a multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. It is capable of launching 240mm rockets from 12 launch tubes. It is capable of launching 240mm rockets from 12 launch tubes. Versions of the BM-24 have been mounted on the ZIS-151 and ZIL-157 6×6 Truck chassis and the AT-S tracked artillery tractor, forming the BM-24T from ...
Japanese 24 cm Railway gun The Type 90 240mm Railway Gun was initially deployed as a coastal artillery battery at Futtsu, Chiba , as part of the defenses guarding the entrance to Tokyo Bay . It was redeployed to Manchukuo in 1941, and based in the Hulin area of Heilongjiang , as part of the defenses against the Soviet Union, where it remained ...
The 240 mm howitzer M1, popularly nicknamed the "Black Dragon", [1] was a towed howitzer used by the United States Army. The 240 mm M1 was designed to replace the World War I era 240 mm howitzer M1918, which was based on a 1911 French design and was outdated by World War II. The project to replace the M1918 began in 1941. [2]
The guns of 9 1 ⁄ 2 feet 50 1 ⁄ 2 hundredweight and 9 feet 47 3 ⁄ 4 hundredweight were highly regarded as siege guns and widely used in that role in addition to their naval use. The guns of 22 and 20 hundredweight were mostly used in casemates and flank defenses as replacements for 24-pounder carronades.