Browning .50-caliber Machine Guns
Author | : Gordon L. Rottman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781849086578 |
ISBN-13 | : 1849086575 |
Rating | : 4/5 (575 Downloads) |
Download or read book Browning .50-caliber Machine Guns written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.