Recoiless Rifle

[cat691]

How about slapping a recoiless rifle on either the jeep or m3 to give it some assault capability as well as delivering troops?

[jon]

How about slapping a recoiless rifle on either the jeep or m3 to give it some assault capability as well as delivering troops?

I dont think a vietnam era weapon belongs here

[Rosscoe1]

They had them in late WWII, most were shoulder mounted due to lack of recoil and some were on tripods, in my opinion they go on the jeep only though.

[jon]

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[E25280]

Please see the following thread.  No one has been able to produce any evidence that recoiless rifles mounted on jeeps were used in WWII.  But believe me . . . I would love to be proved wrong!

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,221185.0.html

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

Even if no recoilless.. You could still have a soldier siting in a seat holding a 2.36In bazooka.
Not ubber, but its more of a bite for those sneaky jeeps.

[Pannono]

this is aces high, not call of duty 3.....

[Masherbrum]

How about slapping a recoiless rifle on either the jeep or m3 to give it some assault capability as well as delivering troops?

This isn't the film Black Hawk Down.   

Go dream up another "Modern Adaptation".

[angelsandair]

Well masher, it's still a newer one.

[Barnes828]

[Warspawn]

Here's one in a parade in Alaska right after WWII.  It's an amphibious jeep with a 75mm:



in WWII, the US mounted 57mm AT guns on some M3 halftracks
and some 37mm AT guns on 3/4 ton cargo trucks

[hubsonfire]

I think we need evidence of them seeing action, at this point. I think any Jeep variant is going to be used, and a great deal of fun without being unbalancing, since a burst of even light MGs will pop it.

[Masherbrum]

Key words for both submitted pictures:   "AFTER WWII"

[red26]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoilless_rifle

The first recoilless gun was developed by Commander Cleland Davis of the US Navy, just prior to the First World War.

here ya go

[Blammo]

And, when was the first jeep mounted recoilless rifle?  Just because they had one just prior to WW2, the question was about mounting them on a jeep.