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The M45 Quadmount was a towed anti-aircraft gun consisting of four .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns mounted in pairs on either side of an armored open-top gunner's compartment with electrical laying.
They had expended 20,000 40mm shells and 28,000 .50-caliber rounds in an action that cost them 17 killed and 55 wounded. By the end of their tours in South Vietnam, the three battalions employing M42A1s had lost several vehicles and suffered approximately 200 men killed in action.
All aircraft attempting to land at Khe Sanh received heavy ground fire, including .50-caliber machine gun, mortar, and artillery rounds.
15 cze 2023 · In Vietnam, M45 Quadmounts found their way onto gun trucks to protect convoys from incoming North Vietnamese planes. By that point, planes were much faster, so Quadmounts relied on their overwhelming amount of firepower, which is one of the keys to surviving an ambush. With 800 rounds of .50 BMG, these guns were hell on wheels.
4 lis 2017 · The M45 Quadmount was developed by the W.L. Maxson Corporation for the US Army. It mounted four .50 calibre M2 Browning Heavy Machine Guns on a lightweight, rotating powered mount. I recently had the opportunity to take a closer look at an M45 while visiting the Menorcan Military Museum.
The M45 Quadmount (nicknamed the "meat chopper" and "Krautmower" for its high rate of fire) was a weapon mounting consisting of four of the "HB", or "heavy barrel" .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns (of the M2 Turret Type (TT) variant) mounted in pairs on each side of an open-structure, electrically powered turret.
31 paź 2021 · The quad 50 mounting four M2HB Browning .50 Caliber heavy machine guns was developed during WWII by the W. L. Maxson Company as an anti-aircraft weapon and it was mounted on the M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage (MGMC) half-track.
