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English Choose a language for shopping. Not Enabled Word Wise: The added mass and surface area of the heavy barrel compensated somewhat for the loss of water-cooling, while reducing bulk and weight: Due to the long procedure for changing the barrel, an improved system was developed called QCB quick change barrel.

The Browning M2 is an air-cooled , belt-fed machine gun.

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The M2 fires from a closed bolt , operated on the short recoil principle. The M2 fires the. The closed bolt firing cycle made the M2 usable as a synchronized machine gun on aircraft before and during World War II, as on the early versions of the Curtiss P fighter.

The M2 is a scaled-up version of John Browning's M The M2 has varying cyclic rates of fire, depending on the model. The M2HB heavy barrel air-cooled ground gun has a cyclical rate of rounds per minute. These maximum rates of fire are generally not achieved in use, as sustained fire at that rate will wear out the bore within a few thousand rounds, necessitating replacement. In addition to full automatic, the M2HB can be selected to fire single-shots or at less than 40 rounds per minute, or rapid fire for more than 40 rounds per minute.

Slow and rapid firing modes use round bursts with different lengths of pause between bursts. In this configuration, the V-shaped "butterfly" trigger is located at the very rear of the weapon with a "spade handle" hand-grip on either side of it and the bolt release in the center.

The spade handles are gripped and the butterfly trigger is depressed with one or both thumbs. Recently, new rear buffer assemblies have used squeeze triggers mounted to the hand grips, doing away with the butterfly triggers. When the bolt release is locked down by the bolt latch release lock on the buffer tube sleeve, the gun functions in fully automatic mode. Conversely, the bolt release can be unlocked into the up position resulting in single-shot firing the gunner must press the bolt latch release to send the bolt forward.

Unlike virtually all other modern machine guns, it has no safety although a sliding safety switch has recently been fielded to USMC armorers for installation on their weapons and is standard-issue for the U. Army for all M2s. Troops in the field have been known to add an improvised safety measure against accidental firing by slipping an expended shell casing under the butterfly trigger. Because the M2 was designed to operate in many configurations, it can be adapted to feed from the left or right side of the weapon by exchanging the belt-holding pawls, and the front and rear cartridge stops three-piece set to include link stripper , then reversing the bolt switch.

The operator must also convert the top-cover belt feed slide assembly from left to right hand feed as well as the spring and plunger in the feed arm.

This will take a well trained individual less than two minutes to perform. The charging assembly may be changed from left to right hand charge. A right hand charging handle spring, lock wire and a little "know-how" are all that are required to accomplish this. The M2 can be battle-ready and easily interchanged if it is preemptively fitted with a retracting slide assembly on both sides of the weapon system. This eliminates the need to have the weapon removed from service to accomplish this task. At some point during World War 2 the Frankford Arsenal developed a squeeze bore version of the M2HB which reduced the bullet size from.

Current ammunition types include M33 Ball This is achieved by using a 0.

This ammunition was type classified in When firing blanks, a large blank-firing adapter BFA of a special type must be used to allow the recoil operated action to cycle. This functions on the principle of a recoil booster , to increase the recoil force acting on the short recoil action. This is the exact antithesis of a muzzle brake. Without this adaptor, the reduced-charge blank cartridge would develop too little recoil to cycle the action fully. The adapter is very distinctive, attaching to the muzzle with three rods extending back to the base.

The BFA can often be seen on M2s during peacetime operations. At the outbreak of the Second World War the United States had versions of the M2 in service as fixed aircraft guns, anti-aircraft defensive guns on aircraft, ships, or boats , infantry tripod-mounted guns, and as dual purpose anti-aircraft and anti-vehicular weapons on vehicles. In the dual-purpose vehicle mount, the M2HB heavy barrel proved extremely effective in U. One vehicle would fire exclusively to the right, the following vehicle to the left, the next one to the right, and so on in order to cover both flanks of the advancing convoy.

Army infantry battalion or regiment were each issued one M2 Browning with tripod ground mount.

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The M2HB was not widely used in the Pacific campaign for several reasons, including the weight of the gun, the nature of infantry jungle combat, and because road intersections were usually easily outflanked. The M45 Quadmount was a mounting of four.

This was used by U. AA battalions, fitted either on a towed trailer or mounted in a half-track carrier M16 AA half-track. With rounds per gun in a powered tracking mount, the guns proved very effective against low-flying aircraft. The use of four guns adequately compensated for the fact that the individual M2HB's rate of fire — rounds per minute was low for an effective anti-aircraft weapon.

Towards the end of the war, as Luftwaffe attacks became less frequent, the quad. Snipers firing from trees were engaged by the quad gunner at trunk level; the weapon would cut down and destroy the entire tree, and the sniper with it. Commonwealth use of the M2 Browning. Nevertheless, the heavy Browning's effectiveness was praised by many British and Commonwealth soldiers in infantry, armored, and ordnance branches. After World War II, the. One of its most notable actions in a ground role was in a fierce battle with a nine-man SAS team at the Battle of Mirbat in Oman in July , where the heavy Browning and its API ammunition was used to help repulse an assault by Yemeni Adoo guerrillas, though the more famous weapon from the battle is a 25 pounder gun.

The M2HB has been in service with the Israel Defense Forces since its establishment and has served in all of Israel's wars, operations and conflicts. E Nigeria, the Jos Plateau and in Mali. The M2 machine gun has also been used as a long-range sniper rifle , when equipped with a telescopic sight.

It is often stated, [64] sometimes even by military trainers, [65] that it is illegal under the Geneva Convention to use the M2 against enemy personnel since it would cause "unnecessary suffering". As such, most gunners supposedly aim for enemy troops' belt buckles, since those are technically equipment and thus permissible targets.

However, there is no provision of the Geneva Convention that has ever been interpreted to forbid the use of the M2 on personnel. The misconception may have arisen during the Korean or Vietnam Wars when U. The basic M2 was deployed in U. The basic designation as mentioned in the introduction is Browning Machine Gun, Cal.

The development of the M water-cooled machine gun which led to the M2, meant that the initial M2s were, in fact, water-cooled. These weapons were designated Browning Machine Gun, Cal. There was no fixed water-cooled version. Improved air-cooled heavy barrel versions came in three subtypes.

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The basic infantry model, Browning Machine Gun, Cal. The subvariant designation Browning Machine Gun, Cal. The Marine rifleman of the next conflict will be as in past conflicts: Kindle Edition , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Rifle Marksmanship, Plus free US military manuals and US Army field manuals when you sample this book , please sign up.

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