Schiffer Publishing M50/M50A1 Ontos 365126 1-35 running gear

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and a transporter of ammunition for it (because a full set of rockets took up considerable volume

with orders for two pre-production models and 110 production units following in April 1966

and some aircraft even returned after battle without struts or cables

Schiffer Publishing M50/M50A1 Ontos 365126 1-35 running gearDesigned to counter the threat of a massed Soviet armored assault, the M50 Ontos showed its merit in the jungles and streets of Vietnam. Ontos grew out of Project Vista, the secret study of possible improvements to NATO defenses. Project Vista identified the need for an inexpensive, heavily armed something to thwart waves of Soviet armor. Armed with six powerful recoilless rifles, the diminutive M50 was given the name Ontos, an Army mistranslation of