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Recoilless rifle
M40 recoilless rifle is a recoilless rifle originating in United States. It was built by Watervliet Arsenal. Reported operators include Angola, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cyprus, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Gabon, Guatemala, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Islamic State, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Lebanese Forces, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Rhodesia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Vietnam, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname.
United StatesTechnical data
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Retained English infobox, specifications and article text
Not to be confused with M40 rifle . M40 Recoilless Rifle A deactivated M40 on display at the Philippine Army Museum Type Recoilless rifle Place of origin United States Service history In service 1955–present Used by See Users Wars List of Conflicts Vietnam War Suez Crisis Algerian War Portuguese Col
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Recoilless rifle
United States
1955–present
See Users
List of Conflicts Vietnam War Suez Crisis Algerian War Portuguese Colonial War Cambodian Civil War Laotian Civil War Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Six-Day War Western Sahara War Angolan Civil War Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War Rhodesian Bush War Nicaraguan Revolution Third Indochina War Soviet–Afghan War Iran–Iraq War Lebanese Civil War Salvadoran Civil War Chadian–Libyan conflict Somali Civil War 1989 Philippine coup d'état attempt Gulf War War in Afghanistan Libyan Civil War Syrian Civil War War in Iraq (2013-2017) Yemeni Civil War (2014–present) 2025 Cambodia-Thailand conflict
Watervliet Arsenal
209.5 kg (462 lb)
3.404 m (11 ft 2 in)
1.12 m (3 ft 8 in)
105×607mmR ( HEAT , HEP, HEAP, Canister)
105 mm (4.1 in)
Recoilless
Tripod
True scale
Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Points represent sourced observations, including revisions. Revisions on the same effective date are not separate inventory events. Ranges appear in the table and are not plotted as exact points.
| Observation / report period | Value | Source | Claim state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept 2026 | 3.404 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 3.404 m | Wikipedia contributors | approved |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 3.404 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 3.404 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 3.404 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 3.404 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 3.404 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 3.404 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 3.404 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 3.404 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 3.404 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 3.404 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
−17° to +65° (between mount legs) −17° to +27° (over mount leg)
360°
503 m/s (1,650 ft/s) (M344 HEAT)
1,350 m (1,480 yd)
6,870 m (M346A1 HEP-T)
Angola
Australia
Austria
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bolivia
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Cyprus
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
France
Gabon
Guatemala
Greece
Haiti
Honduras
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Kurdistan
Islamic State
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Japan
Jordan
Laos
Lebanon
Lebanese Forces
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malaysia
Mauritania
Mexico
Morocco
Myanmar
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Pakistan
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
Rhodesia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
Vietnam
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Reference text from Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
M40 recoilless rifle equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
AngolaNumber column of the Wikipedia list table under "Anti-tank weapons". The list's own wording applies; it is a compiled secondary source, not an official census.
Australia
Austria
BahrainArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
BangladeshArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / RCL 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Bhutan
Bolivia
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Republic
Chad
ChileArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
China
ColombiaArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / RCL 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Comoros
Cyprus
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Denmark
DjiboutiArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / RCL 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Dominican RepublicArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / RCL 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
France
Gabon
GreeceArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / SP 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
GuatemalaArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Haiti
HondurasArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
India
Indonesia
IranArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Iraq
Israel
Italy
Ivory CoastArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / RCL 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Japan
Jordan
Laos
LebanonArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / RCL 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
LesothoArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / RCL 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Liberia
Libya
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malaysia
Mauritania
Mexico
MoroccoArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / RCL 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
MyanmarLower-bound count for M40 recoilless rifle. Service scope: Myanmar Army; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): quantity: 1000+. Origin: United States Spain Pakistan. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2016), not the article revision. 2016 cited source edition. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
NigerArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / RCL 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Nigeria
Norway
Pakistan
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri LankaArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Sudan
Suriname
TaiwanArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
ThailandArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Tunisia
Türkiye
UruguayArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / RCL 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
VenezuelaArmy exact named equipment holdings: M40A1. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ANTI-TANK/ANTI-INFRASTRUCTURE / RCL 106mm. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
VietnamAngola, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cyprus, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Gabon, Guatemala, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Islamic State, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Lebanese Forces, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Rhodesia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Vietnam, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname
Equipment reference ↗Reported count for M40A1. Service scope: Hellenic Army; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): quantity: 1,291. Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
Reported count for M40A1. Service scope: Uruguayan Army; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): quantity: 69. Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.