From:	GMPax@***.com GMPax@***.com
Subject:	[OT] .50 cal machinegun rounds (was Re: black talons)
Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:33:58 EST

In a message dated 3/9/99 1:28:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, gurth@******.nl
writes:

> "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.)

Sorry. PBS = Public Broadcasting Station(s). It's basically a network of
more educationally-oriented TV' the birthplace of Sesame Street, IIRC, in
fact. :-) And NOVA, if you get that (science) show by sattelite or some such.
:-) Etc, etc.

>
> 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.

My point was, in WWI/WWII (never CAN remember the exact time), the .50 Caliber
Machine Gun (manufactured by Browing, thus the "BMG" or Browning Machine Gun)
used, ofc. .50 BMG rounds in a light antiarmor role.

I dunno where rifles entered the .50 BMG aspect, post my original comment on
the rounds INITIAL design purpose. :-)

Sean
GM Pax