"What If the M2 Browning Had Become a Tank Killer?" Topic

"The first tanks were developed during the latter half of World War I, and right along with them came the the first anti-tank rifles. Specifically, the German Mauser company designed a massive scaled-up bolt action rifle using a 13.2mm armor-piercing cartridge which could shoot clean through the new Allied tanks. However, despite more than 15,000 of these rifles being produced by the end of the war, they were not enough to turn the tide of advancing Allied armies reinforced with many divisions of fresh American troops.

In the years following the war, John M. Browning and Springfield Armory worked to design a new heavy machine gun for the American military. In the process, they used more than a few captured Mauser anti-tank rifles for cartridge development, and would up with a cartridge quite similar to the German one, and they called it the .50 BMG: Browning Machine Gun.

The first finished version of this machine gun – the Browning M2 – was completed in 1921 and intended at the time to be used against tanks and aircraft. However, the gun would turn out to be a phenomenally rugged, reliable, and effective gun in a multitude of roles. It remains in American military use today virtually unchanged, and also with many other nations worldwide…"
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Armand

When Ma Deuce speaks people listen. The M2 is an awesome weapon. "Takes a beating and keeps on ticking" can sum it up. As to being a "tank killer" it can still chew up most APC's around the world.

Yes, Ma Deuce, as Sabre6 said, will punch thru most light AFVs armor.

Agree.

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