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An M55 rocket containing Sarin being destroyed at Johnston Atoll in 1990. During the 1960s the Army stored many M55s at Black Hills Army Depot. [2] The M55 was also stored at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal and in Okinawa, Japan. [2] The rockets in Japan were moved to Johnston Atoll during Operation Red Hat where they were destroyed during the 1990s.
The M55 is lightly armored, 25 mm maximum, but sufficient to protect the crew from indirect artillery hits and small arms fire. The M53 has a 155mm gun, while the M55 uses the 203.2mm gun. [2] The M55 uses components of the M47 Patton tank, but the automotive aspects are reversed. The engine is mounted in the front and is driven through a front ...
M55 machine gun trailer mount, an American quadruple .50 caliber machine gun system based on the M45 Quadmount; Zastava M55, a Yugoslav/Serbian anti-aircraft gun; Tikka M55, a Finnish rifle; M55, a folding stock version of the M50 Reising submachine gun; M-55S, a Slovenian tank, a modernization of the T-55; M55 helmet, a Finnish variant of the ...
According to Kentucky officials, the last stockpiles of a deadly Cold War-era chemical agent in the U.S. have been safely eliminated. The M55 rocket containing VX nerve agent was destroyed Tuesday ...
The secretary of the Army called it “a momentous day for the U.S. chemical demilitarization program.”
Service history [ edit ] The first 25 M-50s were finished just in time for Operation Kadesh – the Israeli 29 October 1956 invasion of the Sinai – against the Egyptian Army [ 5 ] (which also employed its own up-gunned version of the M4 Sherman, fitted with the French AMX-13 turret, making it equal to the M-50 in firepower).
The M-55 set a total of 15 FAI world records, all of which still stand today: [8] On 21 September 1993, an M-55 piloted by Victor Vasenkov from the 8th State R&D Institute of the Air Force named after V. P. Chkalov at Akhtubinsk reached a class record altitude of 21,360 m (70,080 ft) in class C-1j (Landplanes: take-off weight 20,000 to 25,000 ...
The Tikka M55 (originally Tikka M76 and also Tikka LSA55) is a Finnish rifle designed by Finnish firearms company Tikkakoski in 1967–1968. [1] M55 was the first centerfire rifle action designed by Tikkakoski, [ 1 ] [ 4 ] and it was manufactured from 1968 to 1989. [ 3 ]