With its origins in the Great War, the .50-cal. Browning machine gun—on land, on the sea and in the air—was a decisive arm for America’s victory over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. And ...

Very few people survive a hit from the .50 caliber round fired by the M2 Browning Machine Gun. You’ve seen it in World War II movies, Vietnam flicks, and on the nightly news.

There are several variants of the heavy-hitting .50 caliber round, ... The .50 caliber MK211 ammunition is ideal for use in the M2, M3 and M85 machine guns, and SASR Barrett or M82 rifles.

The Browning M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun, Heavy barrel is an automatic, recoil operated, ... The M2A1 with Quick Change Barrel (QCB) is an enhancement to the M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun.

It is a scaled-up version of an older Browning design, the M1917 .30-cal water-cooled machine gun, and, like its predecessor, early variants of the M2 were also water-cooled.

The ".50 cal" round has 11,091 foot pounds of energy as it leaves the muzzle of the gun. By comparison, an air rifle has a measly 15 foot pounds of energy, and a 9-millimeter police pistol still ...

Marine Corps Cpl. Philip D. Bell, an antitank missile gunner with 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, shoots a .50-caliber machine gun mounted on a Humvee during exercise Comanche Run at Fort ...

Columnist George Skelton has clearly joined the ranks of the misinformed with his diatribe against .50-caliber firearms ("Massive Rifle Needs Regulation to Keep It Out of the Hands of Terrorists ...

DSG Technology has a .50-cal round that can travel 60 meters underwater. ... Currently in production are the 5.56 mm, 7.62 mm and .50-cal. rounds, which use CAV-X technology.