It is a massive semi-automatic, gas driven, magazine fed death machine. The .50 cal bullets are large enough that they can carry payloads. The HE round usually has a small fulminate of mercury charge which is powerful enough to blow big holes in cinder blocks. My kind of weapon which leaves total devastation and scares the hell out of the bad guys. Comes in .41 and .44 cal as well.
For you viewing pleasure:
http://www.remtek.com/arms/imi/desert/50/index.htm
Given the Eagle's heavy-recoiling calibers and its gas-operated rotary bolt system, the big bore semiautos do generate a lot of torque when the gun is fired and tries to move both vertically and rotationally in the horizontal plane. Sometimes the .50 AE and .440 Cor-Bon rotate enough to eject empty cases into the shooter's face rather than high and off to the side like the .44 and .357 Magnums.I was wondering about the recoil. Can't see too many women firing this thing.