From:	Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject:	[OT] .50 cal machinegun rounds (was Re: black talons)
Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:28:14 +0100

According to GMPax@***.com, at 12:32 on 9 Mar 99, the word on
the street was...

> > 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.
>
> Not for a rifle: for the .50 Calibr Browning MACHINE GUN.

Please read before replying. Thank you...

> And, at least, the antitank use is what I have heard/seen on PBS/etc.
> :-)

"PBS" being...? (Remember that not all of us on this list are Americans;
IIRC it's some kind of TV station or network, but as I don't get it here
in the Netherlands and so do not know what's on it, it's about as much use
to me as a comment of "I saw it on RTL5" would be to you.)

Anyway, yes, 12.7x99 mm is a machinegun round, like I mentioned in my post
(for which see above); the only use in rifles that I know of dates from
the last 15 years or so, when things like the Barrett 82 and similar
weapons were developed and taken into service.

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