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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
I was watching a documentary on the Military Channel; the US Marines knocked out two of these with Super Bazookas during the Dominican Intervention in 1965.
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and one of them tried to take on a USMC tank - which didnt work out for them at all - also the only tank kills the Ontos had I think happened in the Dominican
"The most-thinly documented incident is a reported exchange of fire between a massively outgunned L-60 and a Marine Patton tank. The eight-ton L-60, armed with a 37-millimeter gun, could hardly have dented the armor of the 50-ton Patton. The same cannot be said for the Patton’s 90-millimeter cannon, which “disintegrated” the smaller vehicle.
Another L-60 was knocked out by a Marine M-50 Ontos anti-tank vehicle. These unique vehicles bristled with six heavy 106-millimeter recoilless rifles —each had to be individually reloaded after taking a shot.
The Ontos was definitely a “shoot-and-scoot” vehicle — it was so thinly armored that an L-60 might actually have damaged one. An Ontos is also credited with blowing the turret off a rebel AMX-13.
This was the first combat employment for both the Ontos and M-48 — they went on to see extensive use in Vietnam — and the only time the Ontos was used in the role it was designed for, fighting enemy tanks" -
https://warisboring.com/in-1965-u-s-...nt-skirmishes/