M6, M06, M.6, or M-6 may refer to:

Military

* M6 bayonet, a bayonet for the M14 rifle * M6 Bomb Truck, a truck used to move bombs during World War II * M6 Gun Motor Carriage, a United States wheeled Tank Destroyer of the Second World War * M6 gun, a 3" towed artillery piece *

M6 heavy tank The Heavy Tank M6 was an American heavy tank designed during World War II. The tank was produced in small numbers and never saw combat. Development Because of limited budgets for tank development in the interwar years, at the outbreak of Worl ...

, a World War II heavy tank design that never entered full production *

M6 Linebacker The Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV) is a tracked armoured fighting vehicle platform of the United States developed by FMC Corporation and manufactured by BAE Systems Land & Armaments, formerly United Defense. It is named after U.S. General Omar Br ...

, an anti-aircraft variant of the M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle *

M6 mine The M6, M6A1 and M6A2 are a series of metal-cased, circular, heavy anti-tank landmines produced by the United States from May 1944 to May 1945. Work on the M6 mine began in 1943, after the campaigns in North Africa. Testing had revealed the smalle ...

, a United States metal-cased, circular anti-tank landmine * M6 ''Mosegris'', Danish designation for

C15TA Armoured Truck The C15TA Armoured Truck was an armoured load carrier produced by Canada during the Second World War. It was developed from the Otter Light Reconnaissance Car. Development The C15TA Armoured Truck was developed by General Motors Canada along a co ...

* M6 Tractor * M6-640, a 60 mm mortar used by the British Army *

Hirtenberger M6C-210 The Hirtenberger M6C-210 is a light mortar with smoothbore barrel, part of the M6 mortar range designed by Hirtenberger Defense Systems of Austria. This mortar is equipped with two aiming devices and is characterized by high mobility, which shoul ...

Commando, a 60 mm mortar used by various armies * LWRC M6, a series of United States military carbines based on the M4 carbine

Survival guns

* M6 Aircrew Survival Weapon, a .22 Hornet over .410 gauge combination gun * Springfield Armory M6 Scout, a .22 LR over .410 gauge combination gun *

Chiappa M6 Survival Gun The Chiappa M6 Survival Gun is an over and under combination gun that comes in four versions; with a 12 gauge or 20 gauge shotgun barrel over a .22 Long Rifle or .22 Magnum barrel. It has a similar appearance to the original M6 Aircrew Surviv ...

, a 12 gauge over .22 LR combination gun

Entertainment

* Groupe M6, a French media holding company ** M6 (TV channel), a French television channel * ''Mike + The Mechanics'', the sixth album by Mike & The Mechanics

People

Raúl Meza Ontiveros Raúl Meza Ontiveros (; 11 December 1966 – 27 March 2007), commonly referred to by his alias "El M6", was a Mexican suspected drug lord and high-ranking leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal group based in Sinaloa. He was the right-hand man ...

, Mexican suspected drug lord, nicknamed "M6"

Technology

M6 (cipher) In cryptography, M6 is a block cipher proposed by Hitachi in 1997 for use in the IEEE 1394 FireWire standard. The design allows some freedom in choosing a few of the cipher's operations, so M6 is considered a family of ciphers. Due to export c ...

, a block cipher used by Digital Transmission Content Protection * M6, a British peak programme meter standard used for measuring the volume of audio broadcasts * Meizu M6 miniPlayer, flash-based portable media player * M6, a

diode A diode is a two-terminal electronic component that conducts current primarily in one direction (asymmetric conductance); it has low (ideally zero) resistance in one direction, and high (ideally infinite) resistance in the other. A diode ...

electrical component

Transport

Automobiles

* BMW M6, a high-performance version of the 6 Series automobile. * BYD M6, an MPV produced by BYD Auto * M06 or BMW M30, a 1968 2.5 L-2.8 L straight-6 engine * M6 Presto-Matic, a semi-automatic transmission made by Chrysler * McLaren M6A, a racing car built by McLaren for the Can-Am series

Aviation

* Amerijet International (IATA airline designator: M6), a cargo airline based in the United States *

Fokker M.6 The Fokker M.6 was a two-seat experimental design resembling the later E.I fighter. It had a 60 kW (80 hp) Oberursel engine and first flew in June 1914. M.6 1910s German experimental aircraft Shoulder-wing aircraft Single-engined t ...

, a 1916 German two-seat experimental aircraft * M06,

Havre de Grace Seaplane Base Havre de Grace Seaplane Base is a privately owned, public-use seaplane base located one nautical mile (2 km) east of the central business district of Havre de Grace, a city in Harford County, Maryland, United States. It is located on the we ...

FAA LID * Macchi M.6, a 1917 Italian flying boat fighter prototype * Miles M.6 Hawcon, a 1930s British experimental monoplane *

M-6 aero-engine The Hispano-Suiza 8 was a Internal combustion engine cooling, water-cooled V8 engine, V8 SOHC aero engine introduced by Hispano-Suiza in 1914, and was the most commonly used liquid-cooled engine in the aircraft of the Entente Powers during the F ...

1920 Soviet copy of the

Hispano-Suiza 8Fb The Hispano-Suiza 8 was a water-cooled V8 SOHC aero engine introduced by Hispano-Suiza in 1914, and was the most commonly used liquid-cooled engine in the aircraft of the Entente Powers during the First World War. The original Hispano-Suiza ...

V-8 aero engine

Public transport

* Bucharest Metro Line M6, a planned metro line of the Bucharest Metro *

M6 (New York City bus) The M5 and M55 bus routes constitute a public transit corridor in Manhattan, New York City, running along the Fifth / Sixth Avenues / Riverside Drive Line as well as the southern portion of the Broadway Line after the discontinuation o ...

, a former New York City Bus route in Manhattan *

M6 (Istanbul Metro) Line M6, officially referred to as the M6 Levent – Boğaziçi Üniversitesi/Hisarüstü line, is a light metro line of the Istanbul Metro. The line opened for public service on 19 April 2015. Except for the very small Tünel, this line is the ...

, a short metro line in Istanbul, Turkey * M6, a Washington, D.C. Metrobus route *

Sri Lanka Railways M6 Sri Lanka Railways M6 is a class of 16 Diesel-electric locomotives imported to Sri Lanka in 1979. Manufactured by Thyssen-Henschel in Kassel, West Germany, under licence from Electro-Motive Division of the United States. As an EMD G22M, it has a V ...

, a diesel-electric locomotive used in Sri Lanka *

M6 (railcar) The M2, M4 and M6 were three similar series of electric multiple unit rail cars produced by the Budd Company (M2), Tokyu Car Corporation (M4), and Morrison-Knudsen (M6) for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and the Connecticut Depar ...

, a Metro-North Railroad railcar

Roads

Frederik Meijer Trail The Frederik Meijer M-6 Trail, formerly called the M-6 Trail, is a rail trail in Kent County, Michigan. It connects the Paul Henry-Thornapple Rail Trail with the Kent Trails in Byron Township, Michigan. Description The trail starts at a juncti ...

, formerly the M-6 Trail, a bike trail running along the M-6 freeway in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area * Highway M06 (Ukraine), a road in Ukraine * M6 motorway, a motorway in Great Britain ** M6 Toll, a toll motorway which relieves traffic on the neighbouring M6 *

M-6 (Michigan highway) M-6, or the Paul B. Henry Freeway, is a east–west freeway and state trunkline highway in the United States that serves portions of southern Kent and eastern Ottawa counties south of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Although the freeway is named for P ...

, a state highway in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area *

M6 highway (Russia) The Russian route P22 (also known as the ''Caspian Highway'') is a major trunk road that links Moscow to the Caspian Sea. The road runs from Stupino, then heads southeast across Ryazan Oblast, Tambov Oblast, Voronezh Oblast, and Volgograd Oblas ...

, another name for the Caspian Highway * M6 motorway (Hungary), a north–south motorway connecting Budapest to Pécs and Croatia * M6 motorway (Ireland), a motorway forming part of the N6 Dublin to Galway national primary route * M6 Road (Zambia), a road in Zambia *

M6 (Cape Town) The M6 is a short metropolitan route in Cape Town, South Africa. It connects the Cape Town CBD with Glencairn on the False Bay coast via Sea Point, Camps Bay and Hout Bay. It is an alternative route to the M4 for travel between Cape Town CB ...

, a Metropolitan Route in Cape Town, South Africa *

M6 (Johannesburg) M6 is a short metropolitan route in Randburg, South Africa. It begins in the western suburb of Glen Dayson and ends in the east on Bram Fischer Drive in Ferndale. Route The western terminus of the M6 begins as t-junction with Christian De Wet ...

, a Metropolitan Route in Johannesburg, South Africa * M6 (Pretoria), a Metropolitan Route in Pretoria, South Africa *

M6 (Port Elizabeth) The M6 is a metropolitan route in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in South Africa that connects the eastern part of Despatch with the Uitenhage (Kariega) town centre. Route The M6 begins at a junction with the M19 route east of the De ...

, a Metropolitan Route in Port Elizabeth, South Africa * M6 Motorway (Sydney), a proposed motorway in New South Wales,

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

Other uses

* Butterfly Cluster, catalogued as Messier 6 or M6, an open star cluster in the constellation Scorpius * shorthand for king Mohammed VI of Morocco * M6 ISO metric screw thread *

Mark Sixma Mark Sixma () is a Dutch trance and house music producer and DJ. In his career, Sixma has worked on collaborations with Armin van Buuren, Faruk Sabanci and W&W, among others. He’s best known for his hit singles Sinfonia, X, Chased with A ...

, Dutch trance and house producer * Leica M6, a rangefinder camera once popular among photojournalists *

Canon EOS M6 The Canon EOS M6 is a digital mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera announced by Canon on February 14, 2017, and released in April 2017. As with all of the Canon EOS M series cameras, the M6 uses the Canon EF-M lens mount. The camera's screen ...

, a mirrorless digital camera * SureFire M6 Guardian, a flashlight {{Letter-Number Combination Disambiguation