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M23 rebellion
The M23 rebellion is an insurgency in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, launched in 2012 by army deserters and named for the 23 March 2009 peace accord.
M230 chain gun
The M230 chain gun is a 30 mm chain-driven autocannon using an electric motor rather than gas or recoil to cycle, serving as the AH-64 Apache's area weapon system.
M23C6
M23C6 is a chromium-rich carbide phase, generally Cr23C6 with iron, nickel, and molybdenum substitutions, that precipitates on grain boundaries in austenitic stainless steels and strengthens creep-resistant steels.
M24 Chaffee
The M24 Chaffee, also called the M24 light tank, was an American light tank of World War II, armed with a 75mm gun and named after General Adna R. Chaffee, Jr.
M240 machine gun
The M240, the US designation for the FN MAG, is a Belgian 7.62 mm medium machine gun adopted by the Army in 1977 as a tank gun.
M242 Bushmaster
The M242 Bushmaster is a 25mm chain-driven autocannon that arms the M2/M3 Bradley and LAV-25, fires NATO 25x137mm ammunition, and is now produced by Northrop Grumman.
M247 Sergeant York
The M247 Sergeant York, also known as the DIVAD gun, was an American self-propelled anti-aircraft gun developed by Ford Aerospace on the M48 Patton tank chassis and canceled in 1985.
M249 light machine gun
The M249 light machine gun, formerly the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, is the American adaptation of the Belgian FN Minimi, the US Army's standard squad automatic weapon from the mid-1980s.
M25 motorway
The M25, formally the London Orbital Motorway, is a motorway running in a roughly circular route around Greater London, managed by National Highways and known for severe congestion.
M25 Sniper Weapon System
The M25 Sniper Weapon System, also known as the M25 rifle, is a semi-automatic sniper rifle based on the M14, developed for US Army Special Forces in the late 1980s.
M25 Three
The M25 Three were Raphael Rowe, Michael Davis, and Randolph Johnson, three Black Londoners convicted in 1990 of a 1988 murder and robberies near the M25 in Surrey.
M252 mortar
The M252 is an American 81 mm medium mortar adapted from the British L16, used by the Army and Marine Corps since 1987 for long-range indirect fire support.
M256 (gun)
The M256 is a 120 mm L/44 smoothbore tank gun, a US version of the German Rheinmetall 120 mm gun, serving as the main armament of the Abrams.
M26 grenade
The M26 grenade, nicknamed the "lemon," is an American fragmentation hand grenade with a smooth steel body, first used in combat during the Korean War in 1953.
M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System
The M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System, also known as the XM26 Lightweight Shotgun System, is a 12-gauge bolt-action shotgun that mounts under an M4 carbine or works stand-alone.
M26 Pershing
The M26 Pershing, or Pershing tank, was an American tank with a 90 mm gun that saw combat in the final weeks of World War II.
M26 rocket
The M26 is an American unguided artillery rocket carrying 644 submunitions, fielded in 1983 as the basic rocket of the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System.
M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System
The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) is an armored, tracked multiple rocket launcher on a Bradley-derived chassis, fielded by the U.S. Army in 1983 and first used in combat in 1991.
M2M (band)
M2M, also Marion & Marit, a Norwegian pop duo of Marit Larsen and Marion Raven; hit "Don't Say You Love Me" (Pokémon movie), albums Shades of Purple (2000) and The Big Room (2002), 12 million sales, split 2002, reunited 2024.
M2P Fintech
M2P Fintech, also known as M2P Solutions Pvt. Ltd., is an Indian banking-as-a-service company founded in Chennai in 2014 that builds API infrastructure for banks and fintechs.
M3 Bradley
The M3 Bradley, or Cavalry Fighting Vehicle, is an American tracked scout vehicle that entered Army service in 1981 and carries two scouts plus TOW anti-tank missiles.
M3 Lee
The M3 Lee, or Grant tank, was an American World War II medium tank whose 75 mm gun sat in a fixed hull sponson, serving in North Africa before the M4 Sherman replaced it.
M3 Stuart
The M3 Stuart, formally Light Tank M3, was an American World War II light tank armed with a 37 mm gun, nicknamed Honey by British troops for its reliability.
M3 submachine gun
The M3 submachine gun, known as the "grease gun," was a .45-caliber automatic weapon adopted by the US Army in 1942 as a cheaper Thompson replacement.
M31 GMLRS
The M31 GMLRS is the unitary-warhead variant of the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, a GPS-guided rocket fired from M270 and M142 HIMARS launchers with a 70-kilometer range.
M310 (reactor)
The M310 is a French-designed three-loop pressurized water reactor of about 1,000 MW supplied by Framatome, with two units at Daya Bay starting up in 1994 and two at Ling Ao in 2002.
M320 Grenade Launcher Module
The M320 Grenade Launcher Module is a single-shot 40mm grenade launcher of the United States Army and Marine Corps, which replaced the M203 series starting in 2009.
M36 tank destroyer
The M36 tank destroyer, also known as the M36 Jackson, was an American World War II armored fighting vehicle carrying a 90 mm gun on an M10 chassis.
M39 Enhanced Marksman Rifle
The M39 Enhanced Marksman Rifle (M39 EMR) is a semi-automatic 7.62×51mm NATO designated marksman rifle the US Marine Corps built from M14 DMRs, entering service in 2008.
M3GAN
M3GAN (2023) is a Blumhouse-Universal sci-fi horror comedy directed by Gerard Johnstone, written by Akela Cooper and James Wan, about an AI doll (Amie Donald, voiced by Jenna Davis) that turns murderous; it earned $30.2M domestically on a $12M budget and nearly $182M worldwide.