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I don't know about him, but I was a road warrior for years in the Rocky Mtn. states and went through a lot of windshields and headlights. Those states generally used crushed stone/dirt on snowy roads, not salt. When the snows melt & at end of season there is a lot of this stuff to be thrown up...

Halftracks were at the top of the list of alternatives to full-tracked vehicles to be axed. The entire creation of the APC class of vehicles owes itself to the inadequacies of the halftrack, esp. crew exposure. They still found some use in Korea but they were already condemned. The Army had been...

Three of the five vehicles you mention are wheeled (and two of them essentially the same vehicle with different armament). Considerable effort was given to a conversion from wheels to tracks in the post-WWII environment due to mobility issues cross-country. Everything pretty much went to tracks...

FYI, the two most influential "reports" in the post-war history of American Armor was the ARCOVE report (1958) and the document it spawned, "Mobility, Firepower & Protection"1959 (hereafter "MFP"). ARCOVE was the final report of the Ad Hoc Commitee on Armament for Future Combat Vehicles. It was...

A dear, late friend of mine was on the team that completely restored the M50 then at Ft. Knox, Patton Museum, completed in 2006. It resided there until the Armor Center got BRAC'ed to Ft. Benning/Moore. It is in the historical Cavalry and Armor Collection to this day. He left me a trove of...

..or wedge a 6V53T in there as was done on the M113A3 (an M551 engine in an M113). But then, the M113 was shown to do anything an M114 could do, but do it better. This was all part of a plan to field two "Scout vehicles"...one Scout tank plus a Scout "car" (tracked or wheeled). What we got was...

Basically, a shoulder-fired "mitrailleuse". The typical arrangement allowing for both volley fire or sequential fire on the "crew served" version. The cases collect in the bottom and new "trays" of fresh ammo loaded after firing. This one in Bucharest, Romania could be fired both ways. Depending...

The M114 I like to say, is the only vehicle to ever make the small block Chevy look bad. We had one lurking at the Armor Board and used it as a range mule for setting and retrieving targets at MFO where there were decades of ordnance laying about.

Roger that.

The other significant aspect of that pic is that the vehicle was unable to extricate itself. Insufficient power from the Chevy engine, so the thing is well and truly stuck until recovered.

Interrupter gear for firing through the propeller. Imp. War Museum.

As I suspect you may know, the Hughes LRF was my first Test Project at the Armor Board after DEROS from Vietnam. Are you the familiar "Tumbleweed" from days past?

I believe I recognize the handwriting on that photo....is that you, Vic, or Mark with one of Vic's pictures? The login name also is familiar as being Mark's.

The captured K5 formerly at APG was moved, along with "Atomic Annie" to the TSF at Ft. Lee, now Ft. Gregg-Adams. Both are displayed indoors next to one another, now protected from the elements. APG repaint is from 2007, my photo(s). Ft. Gregg-Adams photos research trip from 2021.

The largest fielded. "Little David" was ~900mm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_David

1969 TV action based around a wandering biker. Like the old "Route 66" TV show, but one guy, two wheels. Another likely unfamiliar cultural reference. Ducati's are today almost all "V-twins", but at a 90 degree angle for better primary balance. They stunned the World Superbike series for many...

Thank you very much, kind of you! I'd had numerous Big Twins but a Ducati 900 gave me a lust for something a bit more nimble. I based it on my recollection of the Sporty's of my youth, the ~1969-1971 period that I had admired then. Also the "Then Came Bronson" period, if that rings a bell. I...

I recently looked over this document, a Technical Info Report from July 1968. It presents a couple of single shot 40mm grenade launchers, some of several in the GLAD program. I carried an M203 in my first campaign and it was the commonly seen underbarrel lug standard to the M16 & incompatible...

Kibbey the Elder successfully completed single and multi-engine flight training but kept getting bumped as VE and then VJ day came. The need for pilots diminished, possibly lucky for me. He had done gunnery school but late entry (after June '44 in USAAF) put him behind the surrender curve...

I have had reservations about their product line though the company seems to enjoy a good reputation. I had an experience with some of their ammo exhibiting apparently "light strikes" & failure to fire. A handloader of 40 years, this appeared to me to be due to "high primers" that likely moved...