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The M42 40 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, or "Duster," is an American armored light air-defense gun built for the United States Army from 1952 until December 1960, in service until 1988. Production of this vehicle was performed by the tank division of the General Motors Corporation .
The 4th Battalion replaced its now obsolete M42 Dusters with the Chaparral missile system and its Battery B at Springer became the headquarters and headquarters battery of the new 6th Battalion on 15 November 1986. [19] Battery A of the 6th Battalion was at Raton with Detachment 1 at Clayton, Battery B at Taos, and Battery C at Espanola ...
M42 gun motor carriage (Duster) M43 howitzer motor carriage; M44 self-propelled howitzer (T99) ... M479 trailer, missile battery shop, PGM-11 Redstone; M480 trailer, ...
Z battery (2 inch rocket battery) United States. Missile systems. AIM-9X Sidewinder; RIM-2 Terrier ... M42 Duster (Cold War) M163 VADS "Vulcan" M247 Sergeant York ...
Bastogne had three artillery batteries: 105, 155, and heavies (175 and 8 inch two of each in one battery). It also had two M42 Duster (from D Battery 1/44th Artillery), two quad 50's and one searchlight. Following the withdrawal of U.S. forces, the base was transferred to the ARVN 1st Division who renamed it Phu Xuan. [2]
Fire support was provided by Batteries A and C, 2nd Battalion, 77th Artillery Regiment, placed their eleven 105-mm. howitzers in the south, five 155-mm. self-propelled howitzers of Battery A, 3rd Battalion, 13th Artillery Regiment in the north, a pair of M42 Dusters from Battery B, 5th Battalion, 2nd Artillery Regiment and a pair of quad ...
The M42 Duster was tested with a T50 radar system in 1956 though it was a failure (production of the ZSU-57-2 had not started at this point). [15] [18] The Soviet Union would launch a program to replace the ZSU-57. The ZSU-37-2 and -23-4 were the products of the attempt, and the ZSU-23-4 Shilka would see widespread service in various countries.
SPAAG development continued through the early 1950s with ever-larger guns, improving the range and allowing the engagement to take place at longer distances where the crossing angle was smaller and aiming was easier. Examples including the 40 mm U.S. M42 Duster and the 57 mm Soviet ZSU-57-2. However, both were essentially obsolete before they ...