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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.
The 105mm howitzer round was not the only artillery piece provided with APERS-T. Beehive rounds were also created for recoilless anti-tank weapons: the 90 mm and 106 mm mounted on the M50 Ontos. [4] APERS-T rounds were available for 90mm gun on M48 tanks and the 152mm gun on the M551 Sheridan armored reconnaissance/airborne assault vehicle ...
Ontos M50A1 with six 105 mm M40A1 recoilless rifles. 297 M50 "Ontos" were built as self-propelled light armored tracked anti-tank vehicles. [21] They had six 105 mm M40 recoilless rifles as their main armament, which could be fired in rapid succession against a single target to guarantee a kill.
The Army rejected the M50 Ontos outright, but the Marines embraced it, putting it on the front lines of the Vietnam War's heaviest fighting.
M50 Ontos. M2 Half Track Car; M3 Half-track; M50 Ontos self-propelled recoilless rifle; M110/M107 self-propelled howitzer; M2 Light Tank; M3 Stuart flamethrower tank; M4 Sherman tank; M48 Patton tank; M60 Patton tank; M103 heavy tank; M1 Abrams tank - 403 tanks put in storage [21] [22] [23] LVT-1/2/3/4 Landing Vehicle, Tracked; LVT-5 Amphibious ...
M50 Ontos self-propelled rifle; M107 175 mm SP howitzer; M108 105 mm SP howitzer; M109 155 mm SP howitzer; M110 203 mm SP howitzer; M84 mortar; M1128 mobile gun system; M109L; M1299 155 mm SP howitzer; M270 multiple launch rocket system; M1064 mortar carrier; M10 Booker
M37 105 mm howitzer motor carriage; M39 armored utility vehicle; M40 Gun Motor Carriage; M41 howitzer motor carriage; M43 Howitzer Motor Carriage; M50 Ontos; M55 self-propelled howitzer; M56 Scorpion; M60 AVLB; M114 armored fighting vehicle; M728 combat engineer vehicle
A second series of prototypes was built with 4 recoilless rifles, but adoption of the 105mm American M40 recoilless rifle forced the reversion to two weapons. The Type 60 was designed for ambush attacks against enemy tanks, and mounting four weapons gave the vehicle a rather high profile.