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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 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 ...
It was designed for direct firing only, and sighting equipment for this purpose was furnished with each weapon, including an affixed M8C .50 cal spotting rifle. Ontos M50A1 with six 105 mm M40A1 recoilless rifles. 297 M50 "Ontos" were built as self-propelled light armored tracked anti-tank vehicles. [21]
[5]: 177 As the convoy, accompanied by Army trucks equipped with quad .50 machine guns and two M50 Ontos, entered the city, enemy snipers opened up on the Marine reinforcements. Near the MACV Compound, the Marines came under heavy machine gun and rocket fire. The Army gunners and the Marine Ontos quickly responded.
Suppressed the enemy with machine gun fire, and then shielded a wounded Corpsman from multiple enemy hand grenades, throwing two and kicking the rest of the grenades away David R. Larsen Navy Gunner's Mate Third Class Saigon River August 2, 1969 Led his PBR crew ashore to assist a six-man patrol which was engaged with an enemy platoon
Suddenly, from positions in Nam Yen and from Hill 30, the VC opened up with small arms and machine gun fire, catching the Marine rearguard in a crossfire. Then mortar shells began bursting upon the lead platoons. Company H was taking fire from all directions, and tracked vehicles, Ontos and tanks, were having trouble with the muck of the paddies.
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.
US Marines with a 106 mm M40 recoilless rifle, during the Battle of Huế. A spotting rifle or ranging gun is a small-calibre rifle used as a ranging device for artillery.The ballistics of the spotting rifle are matched to those of the artillery piece, [1] so that if a shot from the spotting rifle lands on the target, it may be assumed that the main weapon will also do so.