Replacing the Priest | 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M37

Envisioned as the successor to the M7 Priest and sporting a similar gun but on the more modern M24 Chaffee chassis, the 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M37 represented a step forward in artillery technology. Despite this, the end of the Second World War curtailed the M37’s widespread adoption and limited its deployment. Initially slated to replace its World War II-era predecessors, the M37 HMC never fully achieved this goal before being retired due to a change in military doctrine, which now required all vehicles to be able to seal against the potential nuclear and chemical hazards of a Cold War gone hot.

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