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The Browning “50-cal” has become the longest serving weapon in the US inventory. The “fifty” has been employed in every imaginable role for a machine gun. It is considered such an effective and reliable weapon that few countries ever attempted to develop an equivalent weapon. Even the Japanese created a copy of it during World War II when the US was producing literally thousands every month to use in every theater. This is a history of the development of this famous weapon, its most critical operational use and the variants that have been produced to keep it at the forefront of the action.
Published | Mar 15 2011 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 80 |
ISBN | 9781849083317 |
Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
Series | Weapon |
Short code | WPN 4 |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
This book provides you with the history of its development and its various important operational uses. But more interestingly, it puts you on the front lines of war see firsthand how a fighter pilot un-jams and re-cocks a wing-mounted machine gun. You get to witness through the author's own personal experiences of how he used the 'fifty' during the Vietnam War. He brings to the life the devastating effects of an armor-piercing round fired from a Humvee.
www.mataka.org (November 2010)
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