The M40 recoilless rifle is a lightweight portable crew-served 105 mm weapon intended primarily as an anti-tank weapon made in the United States. The weapon is commonly described as being 106 mm but it is in fact 105 mm; the 106 mm designation was designed to prevent confusion with the incompatible 105 mm ammunition from the failed M27.It could also be employed in an antipersonnel role with the use of the antipersonnel-tracer flechette round.
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height (cm)
1.12
length (km)
3.404
weight (kg)
209500.0
origin
United States
type
Recoilless rifle
used in war
Falklands War, Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Vietnam War, Rhodesian Bush War, Portuguese Colonial War, Libyan Civil War, Syrian Civil War, Cambodian Civil War
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