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> a WWI-era 50 cal. machine gun could punch through the armor. Just wanted to note that the .50 caliber heavy machine guns the US military currently uses first
by rascul 4y ago
> a WWI-era 50 cal. machine gun could punch through the armor.
Just wanted to note that the .50 caliber heavy machine guns the US military currently uses first entered service in 1933.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning
- bell-cot 4y agoLiterally true. And the used-in-WWI German rifle (Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr) which the M2 was designed to match (the armor penetration of) fired a 13.2×92mm SR cartridge, not 12.7×99mm NATO (.50 cal). It's cool stuff...but for the point I wanted to make, it didn't seem worth getting that far into the weeds.