Monday, June 3, 2019

Ontos

M50 Ontos:


My uncle was a two-war Marine, who retired by the time I was of an age to know anything about it. Our familes went camping one time at Quantico; he took us to a garage of some kind where there was an Ontos. Even to a kid, it seemed pretty tiny.

(My memory was jogged by this.)
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3 comments:

  1. seafury6/03/2019 11:08 AM

    Heard about these during my time as a red leg artilleryman. (M109A1-A3 Howitzer) They were a little before my time. I believe ONTOS was Greek for THING. Pretty cool name. If you ever need a multi barreled recoiless rifle, this is available.

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  2. J4rh34d6/03/2019 11:50 AM

    I was trained on the M40 106mm "Reckless". The "Pig" mounted six of them. I once watched an Ontos "suppress" a sniper by shooting all six at once and toothpicking a clump of trees just north of Hoi An near the Horseshoe.

    Underpowered, underarmored, and couldn't ford a stream, but handy to have nearby, as long as you didn't stand behind one. The giant flashbulb of one firing is why it was deprecated for the antitank mission.

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  3. Stewart Dean6/04/2019 6:02 AM

    Saw one IIRC at the Ft Knox (KY, home of armor) tank museum years back, which even has a WWI parallelogram tank....museum has changed a lot, but was was fascinating when I saw it, once as a kid, once as a young adult...50 years back

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