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Machine guns of 12.7 mm or .50 caliber, usually employed as heavy machine guns and as vehicle and aircraft armament. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Developed as a pod for high-speed fighter aircraft which lacked a gun, this pod was fitted with a single M61A1 20 mm cannon and 1,200 rounds of ammunition. This weapon is powered by a ram-air turbine, and fires at a fixed rate of 6,000 rpm. However, for this firing rate to be achieved the aircraft needs to fly over 300 mph (480 km/h), and the ...
The 12.7 × 108 mm has 22.72 ml (350 grains) H 2 O cartridge case capacity. 12.7 × 108 mm maximum cartridge dimensions. [citation needed] All sizes in millimeters (mm). Americans define the shoulder angle at alpha/2 ≈ 18.16 degrees. According to guidelines the 12.7 × 108 mm case can handle up to 360 MPa (52,213 psi) piezo pressure.
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 ]
The Vickers .5 inch machine gun (officially "Gun, Machine, Vickers, .5-in") also known as the Vickers .50 was a large-calibre British automatic weapon. The gun was commonly used as a close-in anti-aircraft weapon on Royal Navy and Allied ships, typically in a four-gun mounting (UK) or two-gun mounting (Dutch), as well as tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles.
The 12"/50 caliber Mark 7 gun (spoken "twelve-inch-fifty-caliber") was a United States Navy's naval gun that first entered service in 1912. Initially designed for use with the Wyoming class of dreadnought battleships, the Mark 7 also armed the Argentine Navy 's Rivadavia -class battleships .
The GAU-19/A is designed to accept standard NATO .50 caliber M9-linked ammunition. The rate of fire is selectable to be either 1,000 or 2,000 rounds per minute. The Humvee armament kit version fires at 1,300 rounds per minute. The average recoil force when firing is 382 lb/ft, 495 lb/ft or 629 lb/ft depending on firing rate.