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Army cancels XM806 .50 machine gun, will modernize M2HB instead
The Firearm Blog ^
| July 24, 2012
Posted on 08/10/2012 8:26:49 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
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That makes it, what, six supposed replacements that the M2 has managed to outlive?
To: JerseyanExile
In a rational nation there would be a statue of John Moses Browning in every town square and his birthday would be a holiday.
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posted on
08/10/2012 8:30:05 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Lurker
Gonna have to add A1 to my tag!
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posted on
08/10/2012 8:34:31 PM PDT
by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
To: JerseyanExile
And Great-Grandma Deuce keeps on truckin’...
}:-)4
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posted on
08/10/2012 8:34:38 PM PDT
by
Moose4
(...and walk away.)
To: JerseyanExile
perfection is pretty hard to replace...
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posted on
08/10/2012 8:37:30 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: JerseyanExile
Geez, next they’ll probably be reviving the 1911’s.
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posted on
08/10/2012 8:37:38 PM PDT
by
umgud
(No Rats, No Rino's)
To: Lurker
I do a post on his birthday every year. Eugene Stoner as well.
/johnny
To: JerseyanExile
There was the M85 piece of ookum-dookum they put in the M60/M60A1 vehicle cupolas. Nice idea, pull the black chain to charge the weapon, pull the red chain to fire. Yeah.
Then we went back to good ol spade grips Ma Deuce in an open ring mount. On M48’s no less! Right after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Lotsa mods on our tanks came out of that one. Strapping an M2 on the main gun isn’t a bad idea either. Instant co-ax!
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posted on
08/10/2012 8:45:39 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
(Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind. Deus vult!)
To: elcid1970
Looks like the .50 cal has out lived the M1911 in years as a standard weapon.
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posted on
08/10/2012 8:50:59 PM PDT
by
Lockbar
(I promise to move fire-wood twice a day.)
To: Lurker
And the Boeing family too.
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posted on
08/10/2012 8:51:43 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: umgud
“Geez, next theyll probably be reviving the 1911s.”
No... LOL!
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posted on
08/10/2012 8:55:39 PM PDT
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders.)
To: JerseyanExile
I'm sorry but that thing in the picture looks ridiculous. Just to look at the M2 Browning .50 caliber is to be looking at a weapon you know is going to bring a world of hurt down on whatever you aim it at.
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posted on
08/10/2012 8:56:19 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: JerseyanExile
To: umgud
Geez, next theyll probably be reviving the 1911s.
Or upgrading those ancient B-52s....
To: umgud
“Geez, next theyll probably be reviving the 1911s.”
The USMC just awarded a multi-year contract to Colt for a whole bunch of modernized M1911’s.
John Moses Browning is the god of guns.
Send that Beretta .380 magnum back to the eyetalians please.
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posted on
08/10/2012 9:15:11 PM PDT
by
43north
(BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
To: Lockbar
I saw an article where the Marine Corps just ordered a bunch of M1911s, so I will be around for a while.
To: JerseyanExile
The B-24 Liberator was famous for mincing japanese fighters. Each bomber had TEN M2 machine guns. A formation of four or more was considered impregnable by the japs. FORTY M2 machine guns — Imagine!
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To: umgud
The Marines are already doing that.
Warms my heart, especially since I was born on the 50th anniversary of its official adoption as THE service pistol.
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posted on
08/10/2012 10:19:29 PM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
(Bibi to Odumbo: Its not going to happen.)
To: Born to Conserve
The air war in Europe was won by the b17s and b24s. They shot down more nazi fighters then our fighters did
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posted on
08/10/2012 11:48:58 PM PDT
by
South Dakota
(shut up and drill)
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