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Ontos, officially the Rifle, Multiple 106 mm, Self-propelled, M50, was an American light armored tracked anti-tank vehicle developed in the 1950s. It mounted six 106 mm manually loaded M40 recoilless rifles as its main armament, which could be fired in rapid succession against single targets to increase the probability of a kill.
The rifle company has a company headquarters, three rifle platoons, with three rifle squads each, and a weapons platoon with medium machineguns, mortars, and assault weapons sections. The weapons company includes a company headquarters, a heavy machinegun platoon, an 81mm mortar platoon, and an anti armor platoon.
M50 Ontos. M2 Half Track Car; M3 Half-track; M50 Ontos self-propelled recoilless rifle; M110/M107 self-propelled howitzer; M2 Light Tank; M3 Stuart flamethrower tank; M4 Sherman tank; M48 Patton tank; M60 Patton tank; M103 heavy tank; M1 Abrams tank - 403 tanks put in storage [21] [22] [23] LVT-1/2/3/4 Landing Vehicle, Tracked; LVT-5 Amphibious ...
Ontos M50A1 with six 105 mm M40A1 recoilless rifles. 297 M50 "Ontos" were built as self-propelled light armored tracked anti-tank vehicles. [21] They had six 105 mm M40 recoilless rifles as their main armament, which could be fired in rapid succession against a single target to guarantee a kill. The M40 could also be used on the M274 4×4 ...
The 105mm howitzer round was not the only artillery piece provided with APERS-T. Beehive rounds were also created for recoilless anti-tank weapons: the 90 mm and 106 mm mounted on the M50 Ontos. [4] APERS-T rounds were available for 90mm gun on M48 tanks and the 152mm gun on the M551 Sheridan armored reconnaissance/airborne assault vehicle ...
M50 Ontos self-propelled rifle; M107 175 mm SP howitzer; M108 105 mm SP howitzer; M109 155 mm SP howitzer; M110 203 mm SP howitzer; M84 mortar; M1128 mobile gun system; M109L; M1299 155 mm SP howitzer; M270 multiple launch rocket system; M1064 mortar carrier; M10 Booker
The USMC used the M50 Ontos, which had an armored cabin and was armed with recoilless rifles, in a similar role (the running gear of the first Ontos prototype was the same as on the M56, but it was replaced for the production variant). As for foreign operators, Morocco was the only export customer which used M56 Scorpions in actual combat.
M50 Ontos Self-propelled 106 mm Recoilless Rifle; M50 6×6 water tanker (United States; Cold War) M51 Super Sherman medium tank based on the M4 Sherman (Israel; Cold War) M51 Recovery vehicle (United States; Cold War) M51 6×6 dump truck (United States; Cold War) M52 self-propelled 105 mm Howitzer on a M41 chassis (United States; Cold War)