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The DShK is a belt-fed machine gun firing the 12.7×108mm cartridge, and uses a butterfly trigger. [16] Firing at 600 rounds per minute, it has an effective range of 2.4 km ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi), and can penetrate up to 20 mm of armor up to a range of 500 m. [ 17 ]
Machine guns of 12.7 mm or .50 caliber, usually employed as heavy machine guns and as vehicle and aircraft armament. ... 12.7×108 mm machine guns (16 P)
A further problem complicating the adoption of the gun was that the 12.7 mm ShVAK ended up not using the 12.7×108mm rimless cartridge used by the DK machine gun, but rather—because it was an adaptation of the ShKAS mechanism—it required its own rimmed 12.7 mm cases.
The M2 machine gun or Browning .50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") [14] [15] is a heavy machine gun that was designed near the end of World War I by John Browning. While similar to Browning's M1919 Browning machine gun , which was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge, the M2 uses Browning's larger and more powerful .50 BMG (12.7 mm ...
Type 89 machine gun: 7.7×58mm Arisaka Japan: 1929 Type 100 machine gun: 7.92×57mm Japan: 1940 XM214 Microgun: General Electric General Dynamics: 5.56×45mm NATO United States: 1966 Yak-B 12.7mm machine gun: KBP Instrument Design Bureau: 12.7×108mm Soviet Union: 1973
The RML 16-pounder 12 cwt gun was a British Rifled, Muzzle Loading (RML) field artillery gun manufactured in England in the 19th century, which fired a projectile weighing approximately 16 pounds (7.3 kg). "12 cwt" refers to the weight of the gun.
The UTI trainer versions of the MiG-15, MiG-17 and MiG-19 aircraft carried a single A-12.7 machine gun. The main application of Afanasev's 12.7mm machine gun, however, was the armament of helicopters. The Mi-4A helicopter was equipped with a single gun with 200 rounds in the gondola below the fuselage. A single A-12.7 was also installed in the ...
This is a list of firearm cartridges which have bullets in the 12 millimetres (0.47 in) to 12.99 millimetres (0.511 in) caliber range.. Length refers to the cartridge case length.