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Sheridan manufactured the Model C Streaks for 27 years before being bought out by the Benjamin Air Rifle company and ending the original run of Sheridan produce Streaks. Many small changes were made to the Streaks during its 27-year run, providing collectors many different varieties. Sheridan was purchased by the Benjamin Air Rifle Company in
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 with the aim of providing air-mobile light infantry forces with the firepower needed to last in the battlefield.
XM121 .50 caliber (12.7 mm) spotting rifle, M73 7.62 mm machine gun M73 or M219 7.62 mm machine gun M240 7.62 mm machine gun Elevation +20° / -10° +19.5° / -8° Traverse Rate 15 seconds/360° 10 seconds/360° Elevation Rate 4°/second Main Gun Ammo 20 rounds 30 (including 10 missiles) 29 (including 9 missiles) Firing rate 4 rounds per minute
The Benjamin Air Rifle Company was formed in 1902 when Walter R. Benjamin purchased the patent rights from the defunct St. Louis Air Rifle Company. Production from 1902 to 1904 and from 1906 to 1986 was in St. Louis. In 1977, the Benjamin Air Rifle Company purchased Sheridan Products in Racine, Wisconsin. Benjamin and Sheridan were acquired by ...
FMC Ground Systems Division was awarded a $27.7 million ($60.1 million in 2023) contract to begin phase 1 work, including the production of six test units. [ 66 ] [ 71 ] The bids for this phase ranged from a high of $189 million ($410 million in 2023) for GDLS–Teledyne and a low of $92 million ($200 million in 2023) for Hägglunds. [ 69 ]
A para-athlete competing with a match air rifle A collection of lever-action, spring-piston air rifles. An air gun or airgun is a gun that uses energy from compressed air or other gases that are mechanically pressurized and then released to propel and accelerate projectiles, similar to the principle of the primitive blowgun.
The Ford MGM-51 Shillelagh was an American anti-tank guided missile designed to be launched from a conventional gun (cannon). It was originally intended to be the medium-range portion of a short, medium, and long-range system for armored fighting vehicles in the 1960s and '70s to defeat future armor without an excessively large gun.
The new owners had no interest in air rifle production and production never resumed. Sterling was again sold in 1989 to British Aerospace and, after the assets were stripped , ceased trading. In 1988 the rights to the designs were purchased by Benjamin-Sheridan [ 3 ] and the HR-81 and HR-83 then enjoyed limited production in the USA. [ 4 ]