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The M28 or M29 Davy Crockett Weapon System was a tactical nuclear recoilless smoothbore gun for firing the M388 nuclear projectile, armed with the W54 nuclear warhead, that was deployed by the United States during the Cold War.
Model 1968 recoilless gun: Fabricaciones Militares: 105 mm: SS RCL Argentina: 1968 B-11: KBM: 107 mm SS RCL Soviet Union: 1954 L6 Wombat: 120 mm (4.7 in) HESH SS RCL United Kingdom: 1950s M-60: HEAT: SS RCL Yugoslavia: 1960s Jagdfaust: SA RCL Nazi Germany: M28/M29 "Davy Crockett" Nuclear Recoilless Rifle: SS RCL United States: 1956
Small, two-man portable or truck-portable tactical weapons (sometimes misleadingly referred to as suitcase nukes), such as the Special Atomic Demolition Munition and the Davy Crockett recoilless rifle (recoilless smoothbore gun) have been developed, but the difficulty of combining sufficient yield with portability could limit their military ...
An M40 recoilless rifle on its M79 "wheelbarrow" tripod Diagram of the operation of a recoilless rifle using a vented case. A recoilless rifle (), recoilless launcher (), or simply recoilless gun, sometimes abbreviated to "RR" or "RCL" (for ReCoilLess) [1] is a type of lightweight artillery system or man-portable launcher that is designed to eject some form of countermass such as propellant ...
W54 for Davy Crockett recoilless rifle, AIM-26 Falcon AAM, and AIM-4 Falcon AAM (1961–1972) W55 for UUM-44 SUBROC SSM (1965–1989) W56 for LGM-30 Minuteman I and II ICBMs (1963–1993) W58 for UGM-27 Polaris A-3 SLBM (1964–1982) W59 for LGM-30 Minuteman I ICBM and GAM-87 Skybolt ALBM (1962–1969) W60 for RIM-50 Typhon SAM (cancelled 1963)
Davy Crockett (nuclear device) M. M18 recoilless rifle; ... M67 recoilless rifle This page was last edited on 25 August 2019, at 23:10 (UTC). ...
The weapon had two distinct versions: a warhead used in the AIM-26 Falcon air-to-air missile and in the Davy Crockett recoilless gun, and another used in the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) system, along with several mods for each version. The two types are distinct in that much of the design between them was different, to the point ...
Several dozen M38A1s were converted, mounting a tactical nuclear Davy Crockett Weapon System, fired by a large diameter smoothbore recoilless rifle – either an M28 120 mm, or an M29 155 mm gun. [7] The vehicle carried two M388 projectiles, mounting the Mk-54 nuclear warhead. The range of weapon was approximately 1.25 miles (2 km), with the ...