Ontos, officially the Rifle, Multiple 106 mm, Self-propelled, M50, was an American light armored tracked anti-tank vehicle developed in the 1950s. It mounted six 106 mm manually loaded M40 recoilless rifles as its main armament, which could be fired in rapid succession against single targets to increase the probability of a kill.

This rolling tank terrain offers enough protection for the highly maneuverable ONTOS. In the Mt. Fuji training area, where our overseas tank units do a great deal of their training, tanks and ONTOS were pitted against each other. At the start of the exercise, the tank battalion was spread out at one end of the problem area.

During the protracted urban battle, the Marines often paired the nine-ton M50A1 Ontos with the 50-ton M48A3 Patton tanks. The symbiotic partnership allowed the tanks to maneuver against the enemy target while Ontos furnished covering fire and …

In 1950s, the US Army Airborne started to look for a new air transportable tank destroyer. The last attempt, the WW2 M22 Locust was recoignised as a failure, due to the choices made of a balanced very light tank. Instead they looked for more firepower, if needed in a more unconventional package.

Maj General Israel Tal had trained Israeli tank gunners to shoot beyond 1,500 metres (1,600 yd) and, on March 6, 1965, an M-50, commanded by Tal, engaged a Syrian recoilless rifle that had killed an Israeli tractor driver; Tal personally destroyed the recoilless rifle at long range.

2021年8月2日 · In 1950, the US Army and US Marine Corps started a joint project to build a light anti-tank vehicle. It produced the M50 Ontos, a small tracked vehicle with light armor and six recoilless rifles....

2021年7月15日 · There it encountered and promptly destroyed several enemy tanks, including a French-built AMX-13 and an old Swedish L-60. It was the only time the Ontos ever performed the mission it was built for. Then came Vietnam. In 1965, during the initial American buildup, the Marines sent over two anti-tank battalions equipped with Ontos.

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The M50 "Ontos" ('Thing' in Greek) was a self-propelled anti-tank vehicle developed in 1951 and fielded by the US Marines from 1956 to 1969, seeing combat in the Vietnam War to great effect. The vehicle was equipped with six 105 mm M4…

2021年10月22日 · To help reload these missiles onto their launcher, the US Army came up with an adorable little vehicle - the M501. The M501 Loader Transporter could carry up to 3 Hawk Missiles and load them directly onto the M192 Missile Launchers 3 at a time.