M47 or M-47 may refer to: *

M47 bomb The M47 bomb was a chemical bomb designed during World War II for use by the U.S. Army Air Forces.Mersenne prime In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a power of two. That is, it is a prime number of the form for some integer . They are named after Marin Mersenne, a French Minim friar, who studied them in the early 1 ...

M47 Dragon The M47 Dragon, known as the FGM-77 during development, is an American Shoulder-launched missile weapon, shoulder-fired, man-portable anti-tank guided missile system. It was phased out of U.S. military service in 2001, in favor of the newer FGM-1 ...

, an American anti-tank missile system *

M-47 (Michigan highway) M-47 is a north–south Michigan Highway System, state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan. It runs near Saginaw, Michigan, Saginaw and Midland, Michigan, Midland in the Tri-Cities (Michigan), Tri-Cities area of the Lower Peninsula of ...

, a state highway in Michigan *

M47 (Cape Town) The City of Cape Town (Cape Town metropolitan area) like most South African metropolitan areas, uses metropolitan or "M" routes for important intra-city routes, a layer below national (N) roads and regional (R) roads. Each city's M roads are in ...

, a Metropolitan Route in Cape Town, South Africa *

M47 (Johannesburg) The M47 is a short metropolitan route in Roodepoort, South Africa. It connects the N14 at Cradlestone Mall with the M18 at Maraisburg in Roodepoort. It consists of only one street, named Hendrik Potgieter Road. Route The M47 begins at a ...

, a Metropolitan Route in Johannesburg, South Africa *

M47 Patton The M47 Patton was an American medium tank, a development of the M46 Patton mounting an updated turret, and was in turn further developed as the M48 Patton. It was the second American tank to be named after General George S. Patton, commande ...

, an American main battle tank *

BMW M47 The BMW M47 and Rover Group M47R are straight-4 Diesel engines. Variants were manufactured by BMW from 1998 to 2007. BMW gradually adopted high-pressure common rail fuel injection systems over the lifetime of the M47. Models M47D20 The origin ...

, diesel engine (1998–2007) *

Messier 47 Messier 47 (M47 or NGC 2422), also known as NGC 2478 is an open cluster in the mildly southern constellation of Puppis. It was discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 and in his then keynote work re-discovered by Charles Messier on 1 ...

, an open star cluster in the constellation Puppis *

Madsen M47 The Madsen Lightweight Military Rifle (or the Madsen Lightweight Military Rifle Model 1947; commonly abbreviated as M47) is a Danish bolt-action rifle designed to be chambered for a wide range of contemporary military cartridges. The M47 was the ...

, a Danish rifle

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