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...velocity of any gun of its type. It can be electrically fired by remote control, thus giving the gunner the advantage of a sheltered firing position when the muzzle blast discloses the position of his gun. Another distinctive feature: the barrel can be unscrewed and replaced by a 20-mm. barrel...
...world's best light tank" (TIME, Jan. 15). Designed as a highly maneuverable patrol and reconnaissance vehicle, it has a speed of better than 40 m.p.h., an air-cooled engine with an automatic torque converter transmission, is maneuvered by a simple control stick. Its high-velocity 76-mm. gun packs a lethal punch, and is fitted to a gyroscopic sight which keeps the gun on target over the sharpest bumps. Weighing only 25.8 tons, it can be transported by air, is already in limited production at the Army's Cleveland plant. At Aberdeen last week, Chief of Staff...
...mm. howitzers are still the standard weapons of U.S. division artillery. The high-velocity 90-mm. tank gun is tops at lashing shells point-blank into enemy-held caves or tunnels. Some infantrymen swear by the twin 40-mm. antiaircraft gun, mounted on a halftrack. Said one colonel: "They're just ideal for those Korean hills-they go over them like a vacuum cleaner...
...thing the camps can't grow is equipment. Armament is the Spanish army's most pressing weakness. Though national arsenals produce plenty of machine guns, Mauser rifles and revolvers, they are tooled to turn out only about a dozen 60-mm. and 105-mm. guns a month. For heavy artillery, the army relies on a jumble of obsolete German, French and Italian guns; finding shells to fit the odd-sized barrels is a head-splitting problem...
...arms. Five thousand M-1 Garand rifles arrived recently to replace .303 Enfield rifles with which the Canadians helped outfit a Netherlands infantry division in December. Last week, at Eisen hower's request, a Luxembourg field artillery regiment was being supplied with two dozen 25-pounders; 105-mm. howitzers will take their place. When standardization is complete, Canadian and U.S. armies will be able to draw from a single supply source in the field...