The M2 Machine Gun or Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun is a heavy machine gun designed towards the end of World War I by John Browning. It is very similar in design to Browning’s earlier M1919 Browning machine gun which was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge. The M2 uses the much larger and much more powerful .50 BMG cartridge which was developed alongside and takes its name from the gun itself (BMG standing for Browning Machine Gun).
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length (km)
1.654
weight (kg)
38000.0
origin
United States
type
Heavy machine gun
used in war
Falklands War, Korean War, Six-Day War, Namibian War of Independence, Somali Civil War, Yugoslav Wars, Suez Crisis, Vietnam War, World War II, Yom Kippur War, Invasion of Grenada, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Portuguese Colonial War, Dhofar Rebellion, Iraq War, First Indochina War, Gulf War, United States invasion of Panama, Cambodian Civil War, Cambodian–Vietnamese War, South African Border War
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