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  2. M55 self-propelled howitzer - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. M551 Sheridan - Wikipedia

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    On 15 February 1969, just one month after the Sheridan's arrival in South Vietnam, an M551 from the 3/4th Cavalry detonated a 25-pound pressure-activated land mine, which ruptured its hull and ignited the combustible-case charges of the 152 mm rounds, resulting in a secondary explosion that destroyed the tank. [31]

  4. M551 Sheridan replacement process - Wikipedia

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    The FMC Close Combat Vehicle-Light ultimately won the AGS contest. Here a pre-production XM8 fires its 105 mm main gun. 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 ...

  5. List of the United States military vehicles by model number

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    The following is a (partial) listing of vehicle model numbers or M-numbers assigned by the United States Army. Some of these designations are also used by other agencies, services, and nationalities, although these various end users usually assign their own nomenclature.

  6. Three destroyed cars over 2 miles: What photos tell us about ...

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    In an effort to better understand what exactly happened, NBC News has geolocated the three damaged aid vehicles abandoned along a 1.55-mile stretch of coastal highway in Gaza, using images posted ...

  7. M55 - Wikipedia

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    M55 (rocket), a nerve agent-filled American Cold War-era rocket; Myasishchev M-55, a Soviet reconnaissance aircraft; M55 self propelled howitzer, an American self-propelled artillery piece; M55 machine gun trailer mount, an American quadruple .50 caliber machine gun system based on the M45 Quadmount; Zastava M55, a Yugoslav/Serbian anti ...

  8. M578 light recovery vehicle - Wikipedia

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    The M578 recovery vehicle is seen here assisting the crew of an M551 Sheridan light tank in Vietnam.. In 1956 the US Army commissioned the Pacific Car & Foundry Company to design an undercarriage for a new series of self-propelled artillery systems that would be lighter, air transportable, and provide a common chassis for multiple vehicles.

  9. Last U.S. stockpile of deadly chemical agent destroyed in ...

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    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 ...