Browning M2 .50 Animation

[93n371cfr34k]

wheres the hammer?

[killermonkeypeople4]

@93n371cfr34k i'm not 100% sure but this is an open bolt(the bolt starts in the back and moves forward when firing) gun so the firing pin has a weight on it and I think it hits the primer on the bullet when it goes all the way forward, just by momentum. I'm not positive about that, but i do know that it dosen't have a conventional hammer compared to the ak or such.

[davidjr7899]

@killermonkeypeople4 Nope, the 50 is a closed bolt.

[xxxmv7xxx]

Your animation is NOT correct, barrel extension group can NOT be at front position before bolt because of breech!!!

[cannibalsrcul]

i'll never get bored of repeatedly pressing 9

[stephen2bubba]

Omg never new the barrel was below the belt on that

[hitmanskilz]

imma make one and glue it to the roof of my camry

[Daemonhunter17]

Okay, that's just too interesting

[k1baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

isnt this known as the gun that has jammed the most out of any other gun ? hahaha

[ElPhantasamo]

@k1baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa No, This is the gun that has been in active US military service than any other weapons system (since 1923). Its also used by many NATO and non-NATO forces all over the world.

[SecuR0M]

@ElPhantasamo lolwat

brown bess/land pattern musket served longer iirc something like 90 years tbh

[stanleythedoggy]

how does the chain suck in?

[mrmught]

@stanleythedoggy

There is a pawl that pulls the next round in. The guide that moves the pawl back and forth is reversible so you can have either right hand feed or left hand feed :)

[tetsuoswrath]

This video is like a quiet fart: silent but deadly.

[andromedarr]

Do Beltfed guns always work like this? Even them with the belt, that gets destroyed after the round has been taken out of it (the ones used on the M249/M240

[1airplane21]

@andromedarr yea basically thats how it works the disintegrating belt links just fall out of the gun where in the video it just shows the empty belt

[2000BBguns]

from 0:12 That looks wrongxD

[herliana0505]

this thing is not using motor?

[TwistedRaven187]

This animation is wrong, for some reason the bolt releases the accelerator shortly after firing. The accelerator stays locked to the bolt for the duration of the cycle. Only when the bolt goes forward does it take the accelerator, as well as the barrel buffer body, and barrel body extension with it.

[MilitantOldLady]

holy crap look at that giant piece of steel moving about...no wonder it has such recoil

[AirSOFTLOVER12]

Lol its a friggiin steel block.

[1airplane21]

@MilitantOldLady actually that weight helps lessen the recoil because the gas has to overcome the inertia of the bolt and its the energy transferred from the gas to the bolt is what causes the recoil

[andromedarr]

@1airplane21 There are more things causing the recoil. At First the energy of the bullet wich has to travel backyards as well. The second one is the thing that you mentioned, the third is the Bolt as it gets stopped at its rear position, and the last recoil, even if its going forward, is when the Bolt hits the barrel/is locking itself

[1airplane21]

@andromedarr newtons law of motion, an object at rest will stay at rest until acted upon by another force. it will take more force to get a larger object moving than a smaller one

[WesOrion]

Animation is set up to show loading from the right. Had a problem on the range where the timing was set too early and the weapon fired before the bolt was fully locked forward and the round went off.

[VMFA115Starloric]

Such a simple but deadly weapon..

Range 4 or 5 miles? insaneeee!

[EvansFTW]

Ah. Such large moving parts explain the relatively slow ROF.

[1airplane21]

im not gonna say the m2 has a fast rof but its defiantly not slow you must remember this gun is firing a .50 bmg cartridge big parts=big cartridge =)

[SKoGoMoney]

@EvansFTW

And reliability.

Small parts with complex movements tend to cause more problems than they solve. Reliability is everything on the field. Though MGs are used (overly imo) as heavy suppressive fire, ROF doesn't mean shit if you can't make the bullets worth their weight.

Take the all-to-common AK-47 Vs. M16Ax/M4 arguments. In terms of reliability the AK-47 wins hands down no questions asked, and it uses few, and 'large' (comparatively speaking) moving parts.

- Future 18B here.

[1airplane21]

@SKoGoMoney the m16 isnt reliable because it has small parts its unreliable because of a potentially flawed gas system and tight tolerances. rifles such as the fn scar and xm8 have small parts but are reliable because of a better gas system and better tolerences

[SKoGoMoney]

@1airplane21

That's basically what I said, man.

[1airplane21]

@SKoGoMoney you said that a reliable gun uses large parts i am saying that small parts does not determine reliability

[SecuR0M]

@EvansFTW Up to 1,200 RPM is slow?

lolwat

[xx0MangiPogo0xx]

@SecuR0M wtf ??? 1200 its theoretic rate of fire is 600 rpm in praxis its even less

[residentevil4freek]

I like how the bolt "grabs" another round.

[hogielove]

I never knew it pulled it back before loading it, not like anything I have seen

[Sugargoober]

Never new it would be this simple.

[ajpeters12]

Me too when I first saw it. Now just imagine it doing this about 10 time a second. 80

[laksemann]

@Sugargoober The best guns are simple.

[Geschichtsfreund93]

Yeah, the M2 is better against light vehicles and cars, but the MG 42 is very good against aircraft, because the rate of fire is with 1500 - 1800 rounds per minute very high.

[captainporpoise]

Interesting.

Great American machine gun, probably better than the MG 42.