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BMG ] The Rear Weapons System: BMG - The Browning Machine Gun Employment: Heavy Machine Gun / Anti-Materiel / Anti-Vehicular / Anti Aircraft Nomenclature: Machine Gun, Cal. .50, M2 Series M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun Specifications FEATURES: The Browning M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun, Heavy barrel is an automatic, recoil operated, air-cooled machine gun with adjustable headspace and is crew transportable with limited amounts of ammunition over short distances. By repositioning some of the component parts, ammunition may be fed from either the left or right side. A disintegrating metallic link-belt is used to feed the ammunition into the weapon. This gun is has a back plate with spade grips, trigger, and bolt latch release. This gun may be mounted on ground mounts and most vehicles as an anti-personnel and anti-aircraft weapon. The gun is equipped with leaf-type rear sight, flash suppressor and a spare barrel assembly. Associated components are the M63 antiaircraft mount and the M3 tripod mount. Numerous manufacturers originally produced the M2 Heavy Machine Gun. Undoubtedly the best-known .50 Caliber Heavy Machine Gun in the World. The .50 cal. (12.7mm) M2 Heavy Machine Gun or BMG Browning Machine Gun, was developed by John M. Browning at the end of World War I. After a series of early water-cooled, aircraft, and tank models were tested in the 1920s, an improved version was adopted in 1933 as the Browning M2 water-cooled machine gun. Subsequent models (.50 cal. M2 aircraft gun and M2 heavy barrel gun) using the same receiver, were adopted by the Army. During World War II, nearly two million M2 machine guns of all variations were produced. The M2 was manufactured until 1946, but toward the end of 1976, the U.S. Army took steps to begin new production and rebuild of the M2 to replace seriously depleted stocks. Many M2s had been demilitarized following World War II. Emergency supply of M2s to the Israeli Defense Forces during the 1973 Yom Kippur war was also a serious drain on supplies. The M2 machine gun was selected as the commander's weapon for use on the M1 series main battle tank. The continuing success of the M2 is a tribute to Browning's design genius. The Browning M2 .50 cal. Machine Gun is an automatic, belt-fed, recoil operated, air-cooled, crew-operated machine gun. By repositioning some of the component parts, ammunition may be fed from either the left or right side. A disintegrating metallic link-belt is used to feed the ammunition into the weapon. This gun may be mounted on ground mounts and most vehicles as an anti-personnel and anti-aircraft weapon. The gun is capable of single-shot (ground M2), as well as automatic fire and was used to a very limited degree as a sniper weapon during the Vietnam war. The M2 .50 cal. flexible version is used as a ground gun on the M3 tripod mount or various Naval mounts. The M2 .50 cal., M48 turret type, fixed type, and soft mount are installed on mounts of several different types of combat vehicles and ships. The weapon provides automatic weapon suppressive fire for offensive and defensive purposes. This weapon can be used effectively against personnel, light armored vehicles; low, slow flying aircraft; and small boats. The Browning M2 .50 caliber (12.7mm) Machine Gun, is a World War II era automatic, belt-fed, recoil operated, air-cooled, crew-operated machine gun. By repositioning some of the component parts, ammunition may be fed from either the left or right side. A disintegrating metallic link-belt is used to feed the ammunition into the weapon. This gun may be mounted on ground mounts and most vehicles as an anti-personnel and anti-aircraft weapon. The gun is capable of single-shot (ground M2), as well as automatic fire. DESCRIPTION The Browning machine gun, caliber (cal) .50 heavy barrel (HB), M2, is a belt-fed, short recoil-operated, air-cooled, crew-served machine gun. The gun is capable of single-shot as well as automatic fire. The M2 Caliber .50 machine gun can be used to provide a heavy volume of long-range, automatic fire to suppress or kill enemy personnel. It can penetrate some buildings and field fortifications, destroy lightly armored vehicles, and provide extremely accurate fire against bunker openings. Its incendiary and armor-piercing-incendiary ammunition can be used to ignite material and equipment. Used with the M63 antiaircraft mount, it can provide point defense fires against enemy aircraft. Employed on the M36A2 vehicle ring mount, it can give combat support and combat service
support units a readily available source of heavy firepower to protect themselves against
surprise ground or air attack.
M2 BMG SPECIFICATIONS:
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*GRAZING FIRE - (DOD, NATO)
Fire approximately parallel to the ground where the center of the cone of fire does not
rise above one meter from the ground.
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1999 Yamaha Grizzly Specifications
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