Student Soldiers Learn to Ride the Bucking 50 Calibers

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Student Soldiers Learn to Ride the Bucking 50 Calibers
Oggetto
en Technology
en Machine Guns
en Training
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Student Soldiers Learn to Ride the Bucking 50 Calibers
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EQUALLY effective for offense or defense, these .50 caliber machine guns of the 62nd Coast Artillery (antiaircraft) Battalion at Fort Tilden, New York, are a good example of where a modern army gets its tremendous fire power. In a single minute each gun can spit 600 bullets, with a total weight of 150 pounds, and each bullet can penetrate 5% of an inch of armor plate at a 500-yard range, or six inches of concrete at 100 yards. Firing one of them for the first time is like climbing on the back of a wild horse. These are basically the same weapons that are being installed in modern tanks, planes, and torpedo boats, though in many cases these latter are air-cooled instead of liquid-cooled. Gun crews for these “chatterboxes,” consisting of a corporal and five men, require strong arms, healthy nerves, and months of training.
Lingua
eng
Copertura temporale
World War II
Data di rilascio
1941-03
pagine
90-95
Diritti
Public Domain (Google digitized)
Sorgente
Google Books
Archived by
Sami Akbiyik
Collezione
Meve - Memoriale della Grande Guerra di Montebelluna
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