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XM800 Armored Reconnaissance Scout Vehicle, (Lockheed-6 × 6.), (FMC-tracked) M802 trailer, electric shop, radar course direct central, Nike Hercules; M803 tank combat, 152mm gun; M805 Dolly set, (used by M802) M806 tank recovery vehicle, (M113 chassis) M807 tank recovery vehicle, (M113 chassis) M808 combat vehicle, articulated, Twister, Lockheed
LVT-4 approaches Iwo Jima LVT-1 exhibited by manufacturer (FMC) in 1941 parade in Lakeland, Florida A prototype during testing, 1940. The Amphibious Vehicle, Tracked (LVT) is an amphibious warfare vehicle and amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. (The USN and USMC use "L" to designate ...
A Honeywell Pegasus CDU in the cockpit of a Boeing 767-300.. It is also used as the name of 'the interface device unit' used to access the flight management computers (FMC), the main computers and software seen in larger aircraft, especially airliners such as Boeing 737, 767, and 777.
FMC Corporation is an American chemical manufacturing company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which originated as an insecticide producer in 1883 and ...
The FMC corporation, originally the Food Machinery Company, and a maker of citrus packing equipment and pesticides, was given a contract to design a tracked military vehicle, after it had been instrumental in designing an amphibious tracked vehicle for use in the Florida Everglades.
The company started as a division of the agricultural machine business, Food Machinery Corporation (FMC), when they won a US Federal Government contract to build the Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) and became a weapon manufacturer during World War II. In 1964, FMC broadened their defense business by purchasing Northern Ordnance Company (formerly ...
The best performing of these, the T59, was selected and type classified as the M59 in May 1953. FMC was awarded the production contract. In order to keep costs down, instead of a single large powerful engine, the vehicle used two smaller, less powerful civilian truck engines, mounted one each side of the hull.
The FMC Close Combat Vehicle-Light ultimately won the AGS contest. Here a pre-production XM8 fires its 105 mm main gun. The Armored Gun System (AGS) was a U.S. Army competition in the 1990s to design a light tank to replace the M551 Sheridan and TOW-equipped HMMWVs. It was the ultimate incarnation of several research programs run in the 1970s ...