Army cancels XM806 .50 machine gun, will modernize M2HB instead

The Firearm Blog ^ | July 24, 2012

[elcid1970]

You’re right, the one advantage of the M-85 was no headspace & timing. And the M-85 was fired by the TC using his Cadillac handle in the cupola.

As for oiling the belt, our loader’s job was to drizzle a can of motor oil (qt can, not five gallon!) over the belt during firing. Messy but it worked.

Did you say M-60A2, the missile tank with the powered cupola? Had a bad accident inside one of those, I was used to a manual cupola.

1-32 Armor “Bandits”......in Friedberg, FRG?

[GreyFriar]

ElCid— Yep, the M60A2 had the 152mm Shellaigh gun/launcher missile system. The same as was on the M551 Sheridan. I never got to fire a missile though. And yes, 1-32 Bandits of 3rd Brigade, 3AD (see my tag) at Ray Barracks, Friedberg, germany. The post was closed in 2008 and returned to the Germans. And Elvis Presley was assigned to D Co. 1-32 AR during his Army tour as a draftee. Note that in GI Blues, Presley wears the 32nd Armored regiment crest on his kahkis and the 3AD should patch. I spent 2 years attached to B Co as its forward observer, doing the original 1976-78 concept testing of what are now the FIST teams. I was assigned to C/2-27 FA, but did my FOing off the A2.