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The 155 mm gun motor carriage M40 was an American self-propelled artillery vehicle built on a widened and lengthened medium tank M4A3 chassis, but with a Continental engine and with HVSS (horizontal volute spring suspension), which was introduced at the end of the Second World War.
M30 ? motor carriage; M31 ? motor carriage; M32 ? motor carriage; M33 ? motor carriage; M34 gun motor carriage 40 mm halftrack (T160)?? M35 ? motor carriage; M36 gun motor carriage (T71E1) M37 105 mm howitzer motor carriage (T76) M38 ? motor carriage (M38 Wolfhound, 37 mm, 6 × 6?) M39 ? motor carriage; M40 gun motor carriage; M41 howitzer ...
155mm Gun Motor Carriage M12 – self-propelled 155 mm Gun Motor Carriage (GMC). Cargo Carrier M30 – cargo Carrier (an M12 with crew and ammunition space in lieu of the gun). 155mm Gun Motor Carriage M40 – self-propelled 155 mm GMC (Either M1A1 or M2 gun) based on the M4A3 (HVSS) chassis.
M12 Gun Motor Carriage; M40 Gun Motor Carriage; M41 howitzer motor carriage; M44 self-propelled howitzer; M107 projectile; M549; M795 projectile; M864; M109 howitzer; M114 155 mm howitzer; M198 howitzer; M777 howitzer; M1128 projectile; M1299 howitzer; Materiel de 155 sur affut-truck Schneider; Mk F3 155 mm; MONARC; Mougin turret
The M43 shared the same chassis as the more widely produced M40 gun motor carriage, which instead mounted a 155 mm gun, and were designed by the Pressed Steel Car Company. A production run of 576 was planned originally, but in the end only 24 were produced and another 24 were converted from M40 hulls. [1]
The 155 mm howitzer motor carriage M41 (also known as the M41 Gorilla) was an American self-propelled artillery vehicle built on a lengthened M24 Chaffee tank chassis that was introduced at the end of the Second World War. Out of a planned run of 250, only 85 were produced before cancellation of the order at the end of 1945. [2]
The 155 mm self-propelled gun Mk F3, or the Canon de 155 mm Mle F3 Automoteur (Cn-155-F3-Am), was developed in the early 1950s by the French Army to replace their American M41 Gorilla 155 mm self-propelled guns. The Mk F3 is the smallest and lightest 155 mm motorized gun carriage ever produced, and because of its size and low cost it has found ...
In 1945, the M12 was complemented in Europe by the M40 gun motor carriage, designed on a late-war M4A3 Sherman chassis with the 155 mm gun M1 the successor to the 155mm M1918. Postwar, the M12 was retired from service and replaced by the M40.