How has it stood the test of time so effectively?
How has it stood the test of time so effectively?
Henry Hernandez
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Lincoln Sanchez
>fires big bullet fast
>with continual updates is never quite so shitty that it needs replacing
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Logan Wood
was designed and manufactured with love
Jayden Gomez
>*thud thud thud thud*
William Phillips
Its niche means it doesn't need to be any better, lighter, or any other change really.
Ethan James
Reliablity
Levi Rodriguez
It's reliable, cheap, effective, and simple. The only major issue is the weight, but because it isn't something carried around by men that isn't much of an issue. Most of the innovations in small arms is because they constantly want to save weight so the boots can carry a few pounds of stuff other than gun. When you are dealing with something on vehicles or on bases it's less of an issue.
David Johnson
Because the lord himself blessed it when JMB finished the design
Thomas Davis
Because, as a mounted machine gun, it doesn't matter that it's heavy. It doesn't need to be accurate. It just needs to KACHUNK KACHUNK some .50 BMG's into a general direction.
Also, fun fact: The .50 BMG is literally just a scaled-up .30-06 Springfield. Including the primer. That's why .50 BMG's have their own primer standard.
Oliver Long
john moses browning was a gift from god to america
Jackson Garcia
Ryan Roberts
Because it taps into something we all know and love.
Tyler Wilson
Its in a role that stays relevant - the best SMG still would have been replaced in common service, its effective, its reliable but most importantly it has inertia.
Inventory, training, parts, ammunition, mounts, tooling etc. We've made millions of them. All would have to be replaced if it was. And it's not out dated enough to replace all that.
If all that magically disappeared, or if we somehow had WW2 levels of attrition, we would replace it. There are improvements to be made.
I wonder if LSAT/NGSW's polymer ammunition will be applied to .50BMG?
>cheap
Not particularly. They're more expensive per unit than many of the alternatives. But a 30% saving isn't worth swapping out everything listed above.
Brody Walker
Nothing made after 1933 has been a significant enough improvement over the M2 to justify a complete replacement of existing stock. I guess you could argue that the M2A1 is doing that right now, but it shares an overwhelming amount of parts with the legacy M2 and the logistical systems for those parts are already in place.
Levi Morris
Its just AK of HMG
Hunter Fisher
Wtf goes on with Russian police
Chase Clark
Indeed he was. He's even called Moses!
Christian Hughes
It's pretty accurate for a HMG. In fact, many operators slapped scopes on them and used them as precision rifles.
Josiah Moore
IT’S JUST A GOOD, SOLID
Ryan Martin
Cooper Sanders
Also the m2 and m2a1 are so close to identical I'm about 90% sure you can swap the barrel and barrel extension for the earlier kind and itll function exactly the same the timing however is set by the rear screw for the sights so it's not moveable on the m2a1
Nathaniel Robinson
Because it's good.
Aaron Adams
Mostly because there isn’t much wrong with it and it saw so much use at the beginning of its service that it just became pretty standard in the Marines and Army and it’s made it easy to train people on it, they have parts for it, etc. I’m just surprised it hasn’t been unnecessarily replaced anyways.
Nathaniel Perry
did he cum on that gun
Bentley Gray
As far as the US's philosophy of arms goes, the requirements for an HMG haven't changed much. Put on truck or tank, make things turn to mist.
Ryan Hill
Kevin Ortiz
My favourite video
Xavier White
>obligatory
Obligatory and already posted over 5 hours ago
RTFT
Lucas Gomez
Erika version better
Benjamin Stewart
woah woah woah. am gunsmith and I can tell you with certainty that you cannot, I repeat cannot swap barrels, please god do not do that. you ever have a .50 round blow back into your face? because that's exactly what will happen. it is bad. dont do that. plaese dont do that
Matthew Wright
nothing, unless you bribe them
Jeremiah Turner
>I wonder if LSAT/NGSW's polymer ammunition will be applied to .50BMG?
Polymer cased 50 Cal is already a thing, and is much closer to full adoption than other polymer cased cartridges. Keep an eye out for major fielding of MK323 Mod 0 within the next few years.
Joshua Adams
That's lubricant semi-fluid automatic weapons
Enlighten me Mr gunsmith why will it blow up
Jordan Carter
Hnnggg
Brayden Reed
it's already being adopted bro
Leo Carter
I know. It's seeing use with SOCOM and possibly some others, but not being handed out to regular dudes yet. Keyword in my post is full adoption.
Austin Brooks
Can you bribe them to do kinky stuff? Asking for a friend
Evan Hernandez
Anybody got any pics of any M2 brownings that have been modified to have squeeze triggers instead of the butterfly/paddle ones? I read that they’ve started doing this but havent seen any examples and i was really curious.
Joshua Cox
Don't know unless you try