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The M4 high-speed tractor used M4 Sherman tracks, roadwheels, and drive sprocket. However, the suspension was of the HVSS type, first introduced on a light tank T6 project in 1938. One variant was designed to tow the 90 mm anti-aircraft gun , and another was for the 155 mm gun or 8-inch howitzer . [ 1 ]
M1 medium tractor, Allis-Chalmers; G-126 M4 tractor crane Cat D-7. G-126 M1 heavy tractor Caterpillar Inc. model D-7; M4 tractor crane by Cardwell Crane Co. G-127 Howitzer motor carriage M8, for 75-mm howitzer. G-128 M7 Priest, gun motor carriage, 105-mm, American Locomotive Company; G-130 M10 tank destroyer, 3" Gun, GMC Fisher tank division
Wheeled British WWII Scammell Pioneer towing an 8-inch howitzer Tracked Finnish WWII Komsomolets (captured from USSR) Half-tracked German Sd.Kfz. 7 towing an 8.8cm Flak. An artillery tractor, also referred to as a gun tractor, is a specialized heavy-duty form of tractor unit used to tow artillery pieces of varying weights and calibres.
For non-sequential numbers, like M1 Abrams, see bottom of list. M1 combat car, also known as the M1 light tank; M1 light motorcycle; M2 light tank, .5" MG or 37 mm gun, 11-ton
The M6 tractor was chiefly used in the European theater only in the last months of World War II. Until then large caliber artillery was moved by the M1 heavy tractor, heavy trucks, or vehicles such as the M33 Prime Mover, M34 Prime Mover or M35 Prime Mover derived from the M3 Medium Tank, M4 Medium Tank, and M10 GMC hulls respectively
Cletrac in front of a P-47 Thunderbolt of the 406th Fighter Group. The M2 is a fully tracked vehicle designed to tow aircraft on primitive airfields. It was equipped with a 10,000 lb (4,500 kg) winch with 300 ft (91 m) of 3 ⁄ 8 in (9.5 mm) cable, an auxiliary generator (3 kW at 110 volts DC), and an air compressor (3 stage, 16.7 CFPM, 2,000 PSI)
Pages in category "Artillery tractors" ... M4 tractor; M5 tractor; M6 tractor; M8 tractor; ... Type 96 AA gun prime mover; Type 98 So-Da; U.
HSwMS M4, a Swedish Navy mine sweeper; HMS Roberts (1915) (M4), a WWI British Royal Navy monitor; HMS M4 (1919), a British M-class submarine; M4 tractor, a U.S. Army artillery tractor from 1943; Myasishchev M-4, a 1950s Soviet strategic bomber aircraft; Meusel M-IV, a German glider; see List of German gliders