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Tech/Engineering - Military / Defense / Kanone | | English term or phrase: 0.50 caliber gun | A U.S. Vega-built B-17G Flying Fortress introduces a new protection feature against head-on enemy fighter attacks, in form of a chin turret, mounting two .50 caliber guns, and similar turrets in the bell, tail and top, as seen in this October 7, 1943 photo.
Zum einen: Sage ich 0.50 Kaliber? Ist es hier nicht eher eine Kanone? |
| | | Maschinengewehr Kaliber .50 | Explanation:
Nein, keine Kanone sondern ein Maschinengewehr.
Browning M2 Maschinengewehr Kaliber .50
Diese Waffe ist unter allen Infanterieeinheiten sehr beliebt. Sie stattet einen Schützenzug mit einer soliden Grundlage an Feuerkraft aus, die den Feind zwingt, den Kopf unten zu halten. Das Kaliber .50 wurde erstmals im Jahre 1919 eingeführt, im zweiten Weltkrieg war es die Standardbordwaffe der Jagdflugzeuge, Bomber und Jagdbomber, wurde aber andererseits auch zur Flugabwehr eingesetzt.
http://www.mg-dome.de/feuerunterstuetzung.htm
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B-17 Flying Fortress
The design went through eight major changes over the course of its production, culminating in what some consider the definitive type, the B-17G, differing from its immediate predecessor by the addition of a chin turret with two .50-caliber machine guns under the nose. This eliminated the airplane\'s main defensive weakness.
http://www.fact-index.com/b/b_/b_17_flying_fortress.html
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