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  1. M18 recoilless rifle - Wikipedia

    • The M18 recoilless rifle is a 57 mm shoulder-fired, anti-tank recoilless rifle that was used by the U.S. Army in World War II and the Korean War. Recoilless rifles are capable of firing artillery-type shells at reduced velocities comparable to those of standard cannon, but with greater accuracy than anti-tank weapons that used unguided rockets, and almost entirely witho… See more

    Origins and development

    During World War II, the U.S. Army's Artillery Section was working on a 105 mm recoilless cannon, based on captured … See more

    US service

    The weapon was crewed by a two-man team, the gunner and the loader, who fired it from either a prone, kneeling, or standing position. It could also be awkwardly carried, fired from the shoulder and reloaded by one man in an … See more

    Production and use outside the US

    The M18 was copied by the People's Republic of China as the Type 36. The U.S. had provided Nationalist China the blueprints for the weapon. When the communist Chinese seized the factory, they took advantage … See more

    External links

    • "U.S. 57mm Recoilless Rifle". Inert-Ord.net.
    • Francis, Devon (September 1945). "New Kickless Cannon for GI's: Two-Man Recoilless Guns Give Infantry the Firepower of Field Artillery". Popular Science M… See more

     
  1. THE 57MM RECOILLESS RIFLE FROM BOTH SIDES OF …

    May 1, 2002 · Developed in an amazingly short time of 21 months smack in the middle of WWII, the United States M18 57mm recoilless rifle followed the Burney pattern with a number of improvements.

  2. M18 recoilless rifle | Military Wiki | Fandom

  3. The M18 Recoilless Rifle Obliterated Enemy Machine …

    May 20, 2023 · The M18 is a 57 mm shoulder-fired, anti-tank recoilless rifle the US Army equipped troops with during the Second World War and in Korea. The United States exported the weapon to various countries, and while it’s now …

  4. The Tremendous Power Of A M18 57mm Recoilless Rifle

    Jan 10, 2018 · A fer capturing a German 10.5 cm Leichgeschutz 40, the United States started thinking of making a shoulder-fired weapon to use against tanks. A few years later in 1942, Kroger and Musser came out with the M18 57mm …

  5. U.S. 57mm Recoiless Rifle, WWII - Inert-Ord.net

  6. M18 recoilless rifle - WikiMili, The Best Wikipedia Reader

  7. M18 57mm Recoilless Rifle - Specifications - GlobalSecurity.org

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  9. Overview — 57-mm M18 recoilless rifle - Military Periscope