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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.
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 ...
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 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 ...
On June 6, 1966, he led three M50 Ontos vehicles into enemy territory to relieve a platoon that was heavily engaged with the enemy. His leadership repelled the enemy and resulted in 30 enemy deaths. While returning to base, the lead Ontos struck a mine and was destroyed, wounding Bell.
An M50 Ontos leads evacuation convoy of commandeered vehicles, 31 January. As the Marines approached the southern suburbs of the city they came under increasing fire from the PAVN 804th Battalion. In one village, the troops dismounted and cleared the houses on either side of the main street before proceeding.
0353 Ontos Crewman [d] (MOS deleted c. 1973) 0363 Light Armored Reconnaissance Unit Leader – GySgt–SSgt (Added 1 October 2017) [8] 0365 Infantry Squad Leader [f] (NMOS 0311, 0331, 0341, 0352) – Sgt; 0367 Light Armored Reconnaissance Master Gunner (NMOS 0313, 0363, 0393) [f] – MGySgt–Sgt (Added 1 October 2017) 0369 Infantry Unit Leader ...
The USMC used the M50 Ontos, which had an armored cabin and was armed with recoilless rifles, in a similar role (the running gear of the first Ontos prototype was the same as on the M56, but it was replaced for the production variant). As for foreign operators, Morocco was the only export customer which used M56 Scorpions in actual combat.