M55 203mm DC-6

M55 203mm DC-6The M55 Self Propelled Howitzer was an American development emerging out of the 1950s. The vehicle was designed around commonality of automotive parts with the existing M46 and M47 Patton series of medium combat tanks stocking US Cold War inventories at the time. The M55 was similar in scope and function to the preceding M53 self propelled assault gun armed with a 155mm main gun barrel. However, the M55 utilized a much larger 203. 2mm M47 howitzer

and fitted with the full range of high performance option parts

A well-trained mortar crew could fire up to 25 shots per minute

Crews of U

It was deployed and designated in the U

IV photo-reconnaissance version of the multi-role twin-engined de Havilland Mosquito

they were unlikely to survive the encounter

there were so many Shermans in Normandy that misidentification was highly likely and could prove fatal

Decalsheet with different markings

Its variant 9A52-2 is currently the army unit’s long-range assault firepower in Russian Army

on 30th June 2020

as well as in operations over the former Yugoslavia and minor skirmishes over the Mediterranean

From 1940 the World War I era BL 8-inch howitzers were re-lined to 7