60mm HVMS

The 60mm HVMS (High Velocity Medium Support) gun is a self-loading autocannon jointly developed by IMI Systems of Israel and OTO Melara of Italy.

[2] Despite being judged a success by IMI Systems, the gun did not enter service with Israel, and the only export sale was in 1983 to Chile to upgrade M24 Chaffee and M50 Super Sherman tanks.

The automatic loader is recoil-operated and features a vertical magazine with capacity differing between the IMI Systems and OTO Melara versions.

Manual loading consists of the traditional method of inserting the shells into the vertically-sliding breach by hand, augmented by hydraulic assistance.

The APFSDS-T ammunition was capable of penetrating 120 mm of rolled homogeneous armour sloped at 60 degrees at a range of 2 kilometres (1.2 mi).