The M42 40 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, or Duster, is an American armored light air-defense gun built for the United States Army from 1952 until December 1960, in service until 1988. Productio
An M42 Duster used for road security along Route 9, South Vietnam in 1968
M42 Duster, MACV compound at Quảng Trị City, February 1968.
M42 on display at American Legion Post 713 Deerfield, Ohio.
M42 used by German Bundeswehr.
The M45 quad mount is a towed anti-aircraft gun consisting of four.50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns mounted in pairs on either side of an armored open-top gunner's compartment with electrical layin
M42 Duster
…battalions of Dusters to South Vietnam, each battalion consisting of a headquarters battery and four Duster batteries, each augmented by one attached Quad-50 battery and an artillery searchlight battery. Despite a few early air kills, the air threat posed by North Vietnam never materialized and ADA crews…
M45 on an M20 trailer in the Musée des Blindés
CCKW-353-B2 gun truck with M45 on M20 trailer in bed. This configuration did not see combat in World War II as it was still in testing by the cessation of hostilities
Israeli TCM-20, Israeli Air Force Museum, equipped with a pair of 20mm Hispano-Suiza HS.404 cannon