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The M548 is a tracked cargo carrier. It is based on the M113 armored personnel carrier, and was built by FMC Corp. at its San Jose, California , and Charleston, West Virginia facilities. [ 1 ]
It reactivated on 15 July 1947 at Fort Ord, CA, and inactivated on 1 April 1957 at Fort Lewis, WAn, and relieved from assignment to the 4th Infantry Division. Redesignated on 30 April 1959 as Battery C, 29th Artillery, it was concurrently, withdrawn from the Regular Army, allotted to the Army Reserve, and assigned to the Second United States Army.
Iraqi EE-9 Cascavel armoured car hit by Coalition tank fire in February 1991. Coalition aircraft inbound during Operation Desert Shield.. List of Gulf War military equipment is a summary of the various military weapons and vehicles used by the different nations during the Gulf War of 1990–1991.
M688 – Lance missile transport/loader vehicle based on the M548. XM696 – recovery vehicle based on the M548. M727 – unarmored carrier/launcher for the MIM-23 Hawk surface-to-air missiles. XM730/M730 – unarmored carrier/launcher for the MIM-72 Chaparral surface-to-air missiles of the M54 system. The XM730 was formerly the XM548E1.
South Korea: the Republic of Korea Army uses the Volcano system with M548 dispensing vehicles. [ 9 ] United States : the U.S. Army decommissioned the system from active units during the late-1990s and placed the components into storage, but began reusing the system in 2017.
XM166 AA gun (from M42 Duster) mounted on M548 M170 truck, ambulance, front line, 1 ⁄ 4 -ton, 4 × 4 (G758) M172 semitrailer, low bed, 15-ton, 4-wheel (G797)
The studies were completed in 1965 and the Chaparral program was begun. The first XMIM-72A missiles were delivered to the US Army in 1967. Ford developed the M730 vehicle, adapted from the M548, itself one of the many versions of the widely used M113. The first Chaparral battalion was deployed in May 1969.
M548: Cargo carrier ... 330mm multiple launch rocket system: N/A [52] 1990 ... flight ceiling of 25000 ft and 16–30 hours flight endurance, armed with missiles. ...