Although troops balked at the weight of the M2 heavy machine gun and the M2 .50-caliber round early on, the weapon was unlike anything else in the U.S. arsenal.

M2 Heavy Machine Gun Why the Century-Old M2 Heavy Machine Gun Is Here To Stay Here’s What You Need to Know: Massive stopping power and a bullet-proof design keeps “Ma Deuce” in the fight.

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 ...

When we think of the firearms used by U.S. forces during World War II, the AN/M2 .50-caliber machine gun doesn’t exactly jump to the front of the line. Nevertheless, it was in action from Sunday ...

The M2 is an air cooled machine gun shooting the heavy .50 caliber round at a rate of fire from 450 to 550 rounds per minute, out to a range of 1,250 yards. The M2 can penetrate an inch of armor ...

Developed in the 1920s by renowned firearms designer John Moses Browning, the M2 is a heavy machine gun chambered in .50 caliber (12.7 mm) that has stood out in multiple theaters of war and ...

What the army is hoping to do with LW50 is not get an M2 replacement, but a "good enough" lightweight 12.7mm machine-gun, for those situations where such a weapon is needed. SOCOM (Special Operations ...

Ukraine has intercepted a Russian cruise missile by using a Browning heavy machine gun, new footage appears to show, as Moscow peppers Ukraine with dozens of missiles in renewed overnight strikes.

There are several variants of the heavy-hitting .50 caliber round, used by the U.S. military in M2 machine guns and M107 sniper rifles. The .50 caliber M8 armor-piercing bullet has an aluminum ...

The defence blog Armourer Bench reported last month, based on publicly available pictures, that two models of the Turkish-made M2 heavy machine guns were introduced in Ukraine since April.

M2 Heavy Machine Gun Developed as the “big brother” to the Browning M1919 .30 caliber machine gun, the .50 caliber M2 was introduced in 1933 and nearly 90 years later it is still in... Peter Suciu ...