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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 Amphibious vessels, also called "L class".) The United States Army, Canadian Army and British Army used several LVT models during World ...
The LVTP-5 was an evolution of the LVT-1 to LVT-4 World War II-era landing vehicle tracked series, but was considerably larger and could carry 30-34 combat-armed troops. A smaller design based on the M59 APC was also produced as the LVT-6, but only a few were built.
The Assault Amphibious Vehicle[2][3] (AAV)—official designation AAVP-7A1 (formerly known as Landing Vehicle, Tracked, Personnel-7 abbr. LVTP-7)—is a fully tracked amphibious landing vehicle manufactured by U.S. Combat Systems (previously by United Defense, a former division of FMC Corporation). [4][5] The AAV-P7/A1 is the current amphibious ...
M107 (175 mm howitzer) M110/A1/A2 (203 mm howitzer) 76 mm Gun Motor Carriage M10 (3"/76 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) 76 mm Gun Motor Carriage M18 Hellcat (76 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) 90 mm Gun Motor Carriage M36 Jackson (90 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) Landing Vehicle Tracked (armored) (LVT (A))1/2/4/5 (amphibious full-track)
These guns were mounted on the below armored vehicles: 75 mm howitzer motor carriage T47 / M8 – M2 / M3 in mount M7. [16] Landing Vehicle Tracked (A)-4 – M3 in mount M7. [17] Landing Vehicle Tracked (A)-5 – M3 in mount M12. [18] In addition, M1 / M1A1 was mated to a number of other vehicles. Only the T30 reached mass production.
The 75 mm howitzer motor carriage M8 was a self-propelled howitzer vehicle of the United States in use during World War II. It was developed on the chassis of the M5 Stuart tank and was equipped with a M116 howitzer in an M7 mount. The vehicle is also known by the nickname General Scott, or just Scott, which was originally assigned to the ...
The unit was organized into a headquarters, two support batteries each of three troops armed with four Landing Vehicle Tracked - the (A)-4 variant with a 75 mm howitzer -, one rocket battery of three troops of four LVT (R) and one flank battery of two troops of five LVT (F). This regiment was disbanded in 1948.
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