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A heavily modified M5A1 Stuart was featured in the movie Tank Girl as the eponymous heroine's tank. [citation needed] A M5A1 Stuart tank was featured in the James Bond movie Licence to Kill. The tank opens fire on the Chinese hideout in the fictional country Isthmus, and saves Bond.
The M5 was developed from the prototype T13 high-speed tractor, it shared the latter's Continental R6572 in-line six-cylinder petrol engine which developed 235 horsepower (175 kW) at 2,900 rpm and, like the T13 before it, derived its tracks and its vertical volute spring suspension from the Stuart tank. The M5 had a maximum road speed of 35 ...
This is a list of United States Army fire control, and sighting material by supply catalog designation, or Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group "F".The United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalog used an alpha-numeric nomenclature system from about the mid-1920s to about 1958.
The M7 light tank design intended to replace the Stuart tanks became overweight in development and was rejected. An upgrade of the M3, which was initially called M4 but later redesignated the M5, was developed with improved engines and produced in 1942. The M5 featured a redesigned hull and driver's hatches moved to the top.
M1 combat car, also known as the M1 light tank; M1 light motorcycle; M2 light tank, .5" MG or 37 mm gun, 11-ton; M2 medium tank; M2 combat car (G38) M3 medium tank (Lee/Grant), 28-ton, 37 mm and 75 mm gun; M3 light tank, (Stuart)12-ton, M4 medium tank (Sherman), 30-ton, 75/76 mm gun; M5 light tank, (Stuart) M6 heavy tank, 60-ton; M7 medium tank ...
Company D consisted of 17 light tanks: 3 platoons of 5 M5A1 Stuart tanks; 1 section of 2 M5A1 Stuart tanks; Shortly after arriving in Europe, the 8th swapped its M5A1 tanks for the newer, more powerful M24 Chaffee light tank. [1] [8] The M4A3 76 were M4A3 Shermans tanks fitted with a more powerful 76 mm cannon. Later in the war, more M4A3 76 ...
front cover G1 1930. This is the Group G series List of the United States military vehicles by (Ordnance) supply catalog designation, – one of the alpha-numeric "standard nomenclature lists" (SNL) that were part of the overall list of the United States Army weapons by supply catalog designation, a supply catalog that was used by the United States Army Ordnance Department / Ordnance Corps as ...
A 37 mm gun on a M5A1 Stuart tank. In 1941, provisional antitank battalions had been formed from divisional or brigade anti-tank weapons (producing companies armed with 37 mm guns and 75 mm guns), in December 1941, these battalions became permanent and were reorganized as independent tank destroyer battalions. The towed guns of many battalions ...