In 1950, the US Army and US Marine Corps started a joint project to build a light anti-tank vehicle. It produced the M50 Ontos, a small tracked vehicle with light armor and six recoilless rifles. The ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Thanks to the Ontos’ light sub-ten ton weight and relatively wide tread design, the tank killer enjoyed good mobility, particularly in the wet and mushy conditions ...

Armed with six 106mm recoilless rifles, the M50 Ontos delivered concentrated firepower in Vietnam’s toughest fights. Beehive rounds unleashed tens of thousands of steel flechettes to clear enemy ...

As news crews filmed the Battle of Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive, a number of small, strange-looking armored vehicles were occasionally caught on camera firing into enemy-held buildings. They ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: In a desperate bid to quickly get an anti-tank capability into the field, the Marine Corps enthusiastically embraced a project the Army had rejected: the M50 Ontos.