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Sheridan Products Inc. was an American air gun manufacturing company. It was purchased by the Benjamin Air Rifle Company in 1977, and later purchased by Crosman in 1994. Company history
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 with the aim of providing air-mobile light infantry forces with the firepower needed to last in the battlefield.
XM121 .50 caliber (12.7 mm) spotting rifle, M73 7.62 mm machine gun M73 or M219 7.62 mm machine gun M240 7.62 mm machine gun Elevation +20° / -10° +19.5° / -8° Traverse Rate 15 seconds/360° 10 seconds/360° Elevation Rate 4°/second Main Gun Ammo 20 rounds 30 (including 10 missiles) 29 (including 9 missiles) Firing rate 4 rounds per minute
The Benjamin Air Rifle Company was formed in 1902 when Walter R. Benjamin purchased the patent rights from the defunct St. Louis Air Rifle Company. Production from 1902 to 1904 and from 1906 to 1986 was in St. Louis. In 1977, the Benjamin Air Rifle Company purchased Sheridan Products in Racine, Wisconsin. Benjamin and Sheridan were acquired by ...
FMC Ground Systems Division was awarded a $27.7 million ($60.1 million in 2023) contract to begin phase 1 work, including the production of six test units. [ 66 ] [ 71 ] The bids for this phase ranged from a high of $189 million ($410 million in 2023) for GDLS–Teledyne and a low of $92 million ($200 million in 2023) for Hägglunds. [ 69 ]
The Ford MGM-51 Shillelagh was an American anti-tank guided missile designed to be launched from a conventional gun (cannon). It was originally intended to be the medium-range portion of a short, medium, and long-range system for armored fighting vehicles in the 1960s and '70s to defeat future armor without an excessively large gun.
Available only in .22 calibre and costing approximately £120 upon release, it was one of the more expensive air rifles available on the market at the time. A deluxe version, the HR-83 was introduced at the end of 1983, this differed from the HR-81 in having a fine oil-finished walnut stock with hand cut chequering, sling swivels, a more secure ...
A CH-54A Tarhe carrying a pair of UH-1 Huey utility helicopters CH-54B carrying an M551 Sheridan tank, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama Sikorsky Skycrane CH-54B with landing gear modified for soft ground. Work on what would become the CH-54 can be traced back to Sikorsky's earlier activities with "sky-crane" helicopters , particularly the piston ...