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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 rocket containing VX nerve agent was destroyed Tuesday at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent plant. According to Kentucky officials, the last stockpiles of a deadly Cold War-era chemical agent ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Aerial view of a destroyed Iraqi column consisting of a T-72 tank, several BMP-1 and Type 63 armoured vehicles, and trucks on Highway 8 in March 1991. Iraqi forces including the elite Iraqi Republican Guard's 1st Armored Division Hammurabi were trying to either redeploy or escape on and near Highway 8, the continuation of Highway 80 in Iraq. [7]
DoD video showing MGR-3 Little John in army-testing in 1957, including transport by CH-37 helicopter. Carried on the XM34 rocket launcher, it could carry either nuclear or conventional warheads . It was primarily intended for use in airborne assault operations and to complement the heavier, self-propelled MGR-1 Honest John rocket.
The M24 Chaffee (officially light tank M24) was an American light tank used during the later part of World War II; it was also used in post–World War II conflicts including the Korean War, and by the French in the War in Algeria and the First Indochina War.