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front cover G1 1930. This is the Group G series List of the United States military vehicles by (Ordnance) supply catalog designation, – one of the alpha-numeric "standard nomenclature lists" (SNL) that were part of the overall list of the United States Army weapons by supply catalog designation, a supply catalog that was used by the United States Army Ordnance Department / Ordnance Corps as ...
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 AA-12's fire rate is stated here at 300 RPM, with a cited source from 2005. However, newer models of this weapon have a cyclic rate of about 350-400 RPM, and CQB (shorter barrel) versions have 500-600 RPM. This can all be seen in this video. However, this is apparently the only source there is for this figure.
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.
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 ...
Cadillac-Gage manufactures a Cadillac-Gage 1 metre turret for armored vehicles. [1] The turret mounts on a 1-meter turret ring. They were originally armed with a 7.62 mm machine gun, and a 12.7 mm machine gun. By 1984 a version of the turret was introduced where one of the machine guns was replaced by a Mark 19 automatic grenade launcher. [2]
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.
Indiana Car Company (1872–1884) Cambridge City, Indiana [9] Indianapolis Car Company (c. 1870 – c. 1900) Indianapolis, Indiana [9] Indianapolis Car and Foundry; Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi (built covered hoppers for NACC) International Car Company (ICC) (1952–) Buffalo, New York/Kenton, Ohio/East Chicago, Indiana [9] (to ...