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The M45 Quadmount was a towed anti-aircraft gun consisting of four .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns mounted in pairs on either side of an armored open-top gunner's compartment with electrical laying.
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. Although the ...
The M274 Mules were often outfitted with a wide array of weaponry, especially in the Vietnam War. They could be modified to carry virtually any type of conventional weapon that could be mounted on a truck. Most commonly, the M274 was outfitted with: M60 7.62mm NATO light machine guns; M2HB .50 Caliber machine guns; M40 106 mm recoilless rifles
This gun truck, as it became known, was based on the two-and-a-half-ton cargo truck, protected by a barrier of sandbags, and armed with two M60 machine guns. Hardened convoys were smaller than previously, being composed of only 100 trucks, and their security detail was increased until there was one gun truck for every 10 transport trucks.
It was used mostly in anti-aircraft roles on vehicles such as the GAZ-AA truck, IS-2 tank, ISU-152 self-propelled artillery, and the T-40 amphibious tank. [17] Similar to the PM M1910 Maxim , when deployed against infantry, the DShK was used with a two-wheeled trolley, with which the machine gun weighed a total of 346 pounds (157 kg). [ 22 ]
Early vehicles had a pintle mount just behind the front seats that mounted a .50-caliber (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine gun. The later M3A1 adopted a raised, armored "pulpit" mount for the .50-caliber machine gun over the front passenger seat, and additional mounts for .30-caliber (7.62 mm) machine guns along the sides of the passenger compartment.
Vietnam: Standard issue machine gun, Manufactured locally at Vietnam Defense Industry (VDI). NSV: Heavy machine gun: 12.7×108mm Soviet Union Vietnam: Standard issue tank-mounted machine gun. Manufactured locally at the Z111 Factory and Vietnam Defense Industry (VDI). [51] [52] Replacing the DShK. KPV: Heavy machine gun: 14.5×114mm Soviet Union
The .50 caliber machine gun was replaced with a twin machine gun cupola or an M139 20 mm autocannon. [12] This test bed saw limited service in Vietnam, from 1967 to 1972, [13] where it received positive feedback from troops. [14] [15] The XM701 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle (MICV-65), pilot number 4, 1965