![]() ![]() 30–06 machine gun mounted on Allied fighter planes ineffective. Breakthrough all-metal aircraft designs like Germany’s Junker Cl.1 made the current. It wasn’t until the technology of these steel plated juggernauts began to take to the skies that General Pershing sent his order to John Browning. The Allies responded by improving on the British Mark series. Germany came up with such behemoths as the Ehrhardt E-V/4 “Panzerkraftwagen” and the Kampfwagen series. Both sides needed to find a relatively safe way across the barbed wire, trenches, machine gun fire, cannons, and insidious poison gases that made up the horrifying milieu of WWI.īritish engineers lead the way with Her Majesty’s Landship Tank Mark 1 or the “Big Willie” as early as 1916. With men pinned down in the trenches, the war shifted to a battle of mechanical engineering. 30 caliber ammunition, like Browning’s own M1917, were already being used to keep enemy infantry buried in the trenches.ĭue to the power of these early machine guns, the war front in Europe had largely come to a stalemate. Machine gun and cannon fire were now common place, making Europe a bloodbath as tens of thousands of men on both sides were slaughtered in a single day. It was July 1917, the climax of the Great War. John Moses Browning held the specs that had just come in from General John Pershing’s office. This is the Origin Story of the M2 Browning. ![]() This king of automatic weaponry has seen action in more than 24 official conflicts around the globe, so our guess is that you’ve probably heard about it. It’s still manufactured and in use by militaries around the world to this day. Browning’s design was finished in 1918, entered service with the US Armed Forces in 1921, and the patent was filed in July 1923. Hands down, the “Ma Deuce,” as it’s reverently called by all who’ve witnessed it’s gracefully destructive power, is the longest produced machine gun the world arms market has ever seen. It certainly was one of his finest, and one of the last to ever be born at the desk of this giant innovator of American guns. 50 Caliber Machine Gun may have been his crowning achievement. Of all the weapons to come from the genius of John Moses Browning, the M2 Browning. ![]()
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