| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | [OT] .50 cal machinegun rounds (was Re: black talons) |
| Date: | Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:02:35 +0100 |
the street was...
> > Do you really have any idea how monsterously *HUGE* .50 BMG is? Can you
> > say "heavy machine gun"?
>
> Yep. BMG means "Browning Machine Gun" ... the rounds, and the gun theyr
were
> designed for, were originally meant for taking out WWI and early WWII
> -=TANKS=-.
Nope. 12.7x99 mm was a development of the German 13 mm "Tank und Flieger"
cartridge, adapted by John M. Browning for an upscaled version of his .30-
06-caliber (7.62x63 mm) M1919 machinegun, intended as aircraft armament
and for providing anti-aircraft fire. AFAIK it was never used as an anti-
tank round in the US -- probably because to the best of my knowledge, no
anti-tank rifle was ever built in the USA around that time.
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