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The M40 rifle is a bolt-action sniper rifle used by the United States Marine Corps. [1] It has had four variants: the M40, M40A1, M40A3, and M40A5. [2] The M40 was introduced in 1966. The changeover to the A1 model was completed in the 1970s, the A3 in the 2000s, and the A5 in 2009. [3]
Taking the M27 as the basis for a new design, the Army developed an improved version of the M27 that was type-designated the M40 106-mm recoilless rifle in 1955. [22] Although unsuitable for military purposes, M27 recoilless rifles were used to trigger controlled avalanches at ski resorts and mountain passes in the United States. [23]
The ANSI alphabetic state code is the same as the USPS state code except for U.S. Minor Outlying Islands, which have an ANSI code "UM" but no USPS code—and U.S. Military Mail locations, which have USPS codes ("AA", "AE", "AP") but no ANSI code.
The following is a (partial) listing of vehicle model numbers or M-numbers assigned by the United States Army. Some of these designations are also used by other agencies, services, and nationalities, although these various end users usually assign their own nomenclature.
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Its prototype designation was the T38, but this was changed to the M40 in March 1945. [ citation needed ] A single pilot vehicle was used in the European Theatre in 1945 by the 991st Field Artillery Battalion , along with a related 8-inch howitzer motor carriage T89, (later re-designated the M43 howitzer motor carriage ) which was sometimes ...
The T25 Medium tank was a prototype designed and tested in the United States, in 1944–45. A variant of an earlier series of prototypes, the T20/T22/T23, the T25 was conceived as a possible replacement for both the M4 Sherman Medium tank, and its previously proposed successor, the T23.
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