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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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ]
During that battle, 17 M41 Walker Bulldog light tanks of the ARVN's 1st Armoured Brigade claimed to have destroyed 22 PAVN tanks, a total of 6 T-54s and 16 PT-76 light amphibious tanks, at no loss to themselves, [42] [43] [full citation needed] but their friendly units lost 5 M41s and 25 armoured personnel carriers (APCs), mainly M113 APCs. [44]
A documentary looking back at the making of the nuclear war movie “The Day After” forty years after its historic premiere will screen in Lawrence where the story took place and the movie was ...
In a battle-ridden meadow, Soviet tankmen salvage for parts among the destroyed tanks. One of them, Gubkin, gossips about a miracle engineer who is known to bring dead tanks to life, which annoys his older comrades. Konovalov, meanwhile, has healed now, and has returned to the camp.