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How the US built a water-cooled .50-caliber heavy machine gun

Before the Browning M2, there was a series of Colt commercial .50 caliber machine guns. The .50 BMG (12.7x99mm) cartridge began development in 1918, and after the end of the war Colt and John Browning ...
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A century of the ‘Ma Deuce’: How the M2 Browning became America’s workhorse machine gun

Marines operating an M2 Browning machine gun mounted on a tripod at Khe Sanh Combat Base, Vietnam. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images) For over a century the M2 Browning .50-caliber machine gun, known ...