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Shinpachi · Apr 1, 2012

Throbbing pulse of life!

ontos · Apr 1, 2012

Thanks Shinpachi

Just finished this drawing of the M40A1 "ONTOS", we had four of these beauties in our amphibious group, I always wanted to draw one so here she is. She was also called "The Thing", and The "Pig". The M40A1 had six, 106 Recoilless Rifles, the ones we had had six 50 cal. spotter guns one on each rifle and a 50 cal. mounted between the recoilless rifles. She was greatly feared by the Viet Cong. There are only a handful left and maybe only two that are operational.

Aaron Brooks Wolters · Apr 1, 2012

Very sharp Merv. I've not ever seen one of those before. Did they fire all six at once or in succession?

evangilder · Apr 2, 2012

Good action shots with the bikes.

ontos · Apr 2, 2012

Thanks Eric, greatly appreciated. I'm trying to find places to try pan shots.

Thanks Aaron for the kind comments. The crew usually fired one rifle at a time. First fire the 50 cal spotter round, see where it hits then lock in the 106. Some crews were so good they could zero in the 106 before the spotter round hit the target.

Gnomey · Apr 2, 2012

Nice work Merv!

Aaron Brooks Wolters · Apr 3, 2012

That's impressive. I have a friend who was an MP in the army and he always said the one group you didn't want to piss off was the artillery boys. They might get even and shoot short.

MacArther · Apr 4, 2012

ontos said:
Thanks Shinpachi

Just finished this drawing of the M40A1 "ONTOS", we had four of these beauties in our amphibious group, I always wanted to draw one so here she is. She was also called "The Thing", and The "Pig". The M40A1 had six, 106 Recoilless Rifles, the ones we had had six 50 cal. spotter guns one on each rifle and a 50 cal. mounted between the recoilless rifles. She was greatly feared by the Viet Cong. There are only a handful left and maybe only two that are operational.

By any chance, could the 106 Recoil-less rifles fire canister/buckshot rounds? I know their HE was pretty good, but 6 different barrels firing canister/buckshot at an NVA charge would probably obliterate everything!

Wayne Little · Apr 4, 2012

Great drawing Merv!

Shinpachi · Apr 4, 2012

Genius!

ontos · Apr 4, 2012

Thanks all for your kind comments.

I guess Aaron your probably would not want to tick of an Arty. My brother in law was with a 105 Howitzer fire base in Nam, when he came back he could hardly hear. Hazards of being behind one of those things.

MaC. I can't say for sure, but they did fire the BeeHive round which could take out a lot of bush.

Aaron Brooks Wolters · Apr 4, 2012

I often wondered why they didn't wear hearing protection.

ontos · Apr 5, 2012

Just a little cartoon for the Occupy Movement.

Wayne Little · Apr 6, 2012

Aaron Brooks Wolters · Apr 6, 2012

Merv, I have a question. The weapon at the top of this page, you computer image, is that where you get your user name?

ontos · Apr 6, 2012

Thats affirmative Aaron, I have a fascination for this unique fighting machine. The "Ontos" was actually designated as a M50, the M40A1 is the recoilless Rifle.

Aaron Brooks Wolters · Apr 7, 2012

I stumbled across the name looking for the machine you depicted.

ontos · Apr 9, 2012

Here are somemore shots taken at the, Planes of Fame Museum on saturday.

Gnomey · Apr 10, 2012

Nice shots Merv!

Aaron Brooks Wolters · Apr 10, 2012

Those Rock Merv!!!!

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