Before the Browning M2, there was a series of Colt commercial .50 caliber machine guns. The .50 BMG (12.7x99mm) cartridge began development in 1918, and after the end of the war Colt and John Browning ...
The M2 Browning was not the newest or most elegant weapon of World War II, but German troops encountered it everywhere: on bombers, tanks, halftracks, trucks, and defensive positions. Its real power ...