Fully loaded, the vehicle weighed approximately 42,000 pounds (19,051 kg). The M75 has an almost identical layout to later U.S. armored personnel carriers: the driver sits in the front left of the hull, with the air-cooled six-cylinder horizontally opposed Continental AO-895-4 gasoline engine to his right.

The M79 grenade launcher is a single-shot, shoulder-fired, break-action grenade launcher that fires a 40×46mm grenade, which uses what the US Army calls the High-Low Propulsion System to keep recoil forces low, and first appeared during the Vietnam War.

The M79 Osa (Serbian: Оса; "wasp") is a Yugoslav-made portable 90 mm anti-tank weapon made of fiber-reinforced plastics. It resembles the French portable anti-tank launcher 89 mm...

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The basic projectile used here is the solid hardened steel WWII U.S. Army 3" (7.62cm) M79 Armor-Piercing (AP) Monobloc Shot projectile (one-piece design with no nose coverings of any sort or explosive cavity; only a shallow pit in the base for a burning tracer element).

Aug 14, 2024 · Ordnance had developed both AP shot and AP shell rounds for the 3-inch and 90mm guns. US M62 AP shell rounds were capped, and so are identified as APC in the table, while the un-capped M79 solid shot rounds are listed only as AP.

Jun 6, 2010 · FM 17-12 Tank Gunnery gives a brief useful summary of ammunition types for gunners: (1) Armor piercing (AP). This ammunition is a solid projectile with a tracer element. 37-mm shot, AP M74, 75-mm shot, AP M72, and 76-mm shot, AP M79, are in this class. This is used for training. (2) Armor piercing capped (APC).

UTS Values for Armor, as used in P-5032, are: Rolled Homogeneous Armor (MIL-DTL-12560J): 1170 MPa. High Hardness Armor (MIL-DTL-46100E): 1640 MPa. Ti6AlV Armor (MIL-DTL-46077G): 970 MPa. But these are only simple approximations and break down rather quickly. A = Angle in Degrees.

The projectile consists of a heat-treated, hardened steel, solid shot which has a cavity in its base to hold the tracer element which is ignited by the propellent charge. The rotating band is of gilding metal, and is approximately 1 inch wide. No information about functioning.

Oct 17, 2024 · I'm now retired and since we had our first frost this morning and before I go outside to do some more "Indian Summer" yard work, I decided to lay out my WW2 US & British inert ordnance collection. This includes early US yellow HE, US AP & APC Tank Rounds, British 6 pounder & 17 pounde...