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The M2 machine gun or Browning .50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce" [14] [15]) is a heavy machine gun that was designed near the end of World War I by John Browning. While similar to Browning's M1919 Browning machine gun , which was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge, the M2 uses Browning's larger and more powerful .50 BMG (12.7 mm ...
2 x M2 Browning.50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns mounted on a MK 50 Stabilized Small Arms Mount (SSAM) 4 x Crew Served M2 Browning .50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns ; Designed For but not with additional weapons; Armor: Ballistic protection over critical areas and main gun: Aircraft carried: One MH-60 or MH-65, plus sUAS: Aviation facilities ...
Raufoss Mk 211. The Raufoss Mk 211 is a .50 BMG (12.7×99mm NATO) multi-purpose anti-materiel high-explosive incendiary/armor-piercing ammunition projectile produced by Nammo under the model name NM140 MP. [ 1] It is commonly referred to as multipurpose or Raufoss, meaning red waterfall in Norwegian. This refers to Nammo's precursor company ...
Private First Class Ross A. McGinnis distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty while serving as an M2 .50-caliber Machine Gunner, 1st Platoon, C Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, in connection with combat operations against an armed enemy in Adhamiyah, Northeast Baghdad, Iraq, on ...
The SNL was an inventory system used from 1930 to 1958 to catalog all the items the Army's Ordnance Corps issued. The AIC was used by the United States Army Ordnance Corps from January, 1942 to 1958. It listed munitions and explosives (items from SNLs P, R, S, and T), items that were considered priority issue for soldiers in combat.
6 × crew-served .50 caliber (12.7 mm) Browning M2 machine guns [4] Building 2, 3 total on order. The Polar Security Cutter Program is to replace the Polar-class. To enter service in 2025. Healy-class: 1 420' Various small arms; Medium class icebreaker used for icebreaking and research. Entered service in 2000. [5] Legend-class: 9 418'
2 × M2 .50-cal MG. BOWS. Aircraft carried. None. USCGC Chincoteague (WPB-1320) is an Island-class cutter of the United States Coast Guard. The third Coast Guard vessel to bear the name, Chincoteague was constructed at Bollinger Machine Shop and Shipyard in Lockport, Louisiana. She was commissioned on 8 August 1988.
The 110 feet (34 metres) Island-class patrol boats are a U.S. Coast Guard modification of a highly successful British-designed Vosper Thornycroft patrol boat built for Qatar, Abu Dhabi, and Singapore. [ 3] With excellent range and seakeeping capabilities, the Island class, all named after U.S. islands, replaced the older 95 feet (29 metres ...