Key characteristics of the AGS are its light weight (17.8 short tons (16.1 t) in its low-velocity airdrop configuration), field-installable modular armor, M35 105 mm caliber soft recoil rifled …

The M1128 mobile gun system (MGS) is an eight-wheeled assault gun of the Stryker family, mounting a 105 mm tank gun, based on the Canadian LAV III light-armored vehicle …

Here a pre-production XM8 fires its 105 mm main gun. The Armored Gun System (AGS) was a U.S. Army competition in the 1990s to design a light tank to replace the M551 Sheridan and …

May 30, 2017 · The M35 was selected as the main armament for the 105mm M8 Armored Gun System (AGS). In its base armor configuration, it can be low-velocity airdropped from a C-130 …

Oct 19, 2024 · Main armament of the M8 AGS consists of one 105 mm M35 gun is fully stabilised in both axes with an elevation of +20º and a depression of -10º through a frontal 270º arc. …

Designed for C-130 low-velocity air drop and roll-on/roll-off, the M8 Armored Gun System (AGS) can be flown with rapid deployment forces to troubled "hot spots" around the globe. The …

Its main armament is a 105mm Rheinmetall XM35 tank gun. The M-35 cannon is a low-recoil gun that allows the use of previously developed 105mm ammunition. The autoloader holds 21 …

Sep 28, 2018 · As a 105mm caliber weapon, the XM8 would have had enough hitting power to tackle armored targets save for the latest generation of heavily armored main battle tanks. …

The M8 is armed with the M35 rifled autoloading 105 mm cannon main gun with an M240 7.62 mm machine-gun mounted co-axially. The M35 has a rate of fire of approximately 12 rounds …

The AGS carries thirty 105mm rounds — 21 ready rounds in the auto-loader magazine and nine more in hull stowage below the turret ring. Each ready round is inventoried and its type and …