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A gun carriage is a frame or a mount that supports the gun barrel of an artillery piece, allowing it to be maneuvered and fired. These platforms often had wheels so that the artillery pieces could be moved more easily. [1] Gun carriages are also used on ships to facilitate the movement and aiming of large cannons and guns. [2]
The M19 multiple gun motor carriage (MGMC) was a World War II United States Army self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon on the M24 light tank chassis. It was equipped with two Bofors 40 mm guns. It was produced by Cadillac and Massey Ferguson of Canada near the end of 1944. The M19 was developed from the T65 which was based on the M5 light tank ...
The July 1943 Ordnance Publications for Supply Index (OPSI); page 68) sums up in detail, the coverage of Group G as: "Armored, half-track, and scout cars; gun, howitzer, and mortar motor carriages; cargo, mortar, personnel, half-track and universal carriers; armored amphibian, light, medium, and heavy tanks; light, medium, heavy, crane and amphibian/track-type tractors; wheeled tractors ...
M6 gun motor carriage, (T21), M7 howitzer motor carriage, (T32) M8 howitzer motor carriage, (T17E1), Scott; M9 gun motor carriage, (T40), M10 gun motor carriage, (T35E1), M11 not used; M12 gun motor carriage, (T6), M13 multiple gun motor carriage; M14 multiple gun motor carriage; M15 multiple gun motor carriage; M16 multiple gun motor carriage
F42 Mount, telescope, M2 (for 75mm mortar carriage, M1); Telescope, elbow, M3 (for 75mm mortar carriage, M1) – Parts and equipment F43 Sight, M1912, 2.95-inch mountain gun – Parts and equipment F44 Altimeter, M1917, M1920.
Horse artillery—rows of limbers and caissons, each pulled by teams of six horses with three postilion riders and an escort on horseback (1933, Poland). A limber is a two-wheeled cart designed to support the trail of an artillery piece, or the stock of a field carriage such as a caisson or traveling forge, allowing it to be towed.
All three types of carriage were similar in design, having an upper carriage that was placed on a two-rail chassis. The gun and upper carriage recoiled along the chassis. The chassis would pivot to train the gun left or right. The barbette carriages were designed to fire over a parapet and could be used in either permanent or temporary ...
The M3 gun motor carriage (M3 GMC) was a United States Army tank destroyer equipped with a 75 mm M1897A4 gun, which was built by the Autocar Company during World War II. After observing the new and often decisive use of armored vehicles on both sides during the French campaign of 1940 , the US Army decided that it required a 75 mm self ...