Browning .50-caliber Machine Guns: No. 4 (Weapon) - Softcover

Rottman, Gordon L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849083304 ISBN 13: 9781849083300

Publisher: Osprey Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

The Browning "50-cal" has become the longest serving weapon in the US inventory. The "fifty" has been employed in every imaginable role for a machine gun. It is considered such an effective and reliable weapon that few countries ever attempted to develop an equivalent weapon. Even the Japanese created a copy of it during World War II when the US was producing literally thousands every month to use in every theater. This is a history of the development of this famous weapon, its most critical operational use and the variants that have been produced to keep it at the forefront of the action.

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Review:

I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in weapons or Military History. --Model Military International

All in all this is another fantastic addition to the Osprey Weapon range and I think it will be very useful to modellers and enthusiasts alike. Very highly recommended. --Military Modelcraft International

Book Description:

A war-winning weapon that is likely to mark its 100th anniversary still in use, few weapons can claim to be more significant in effecting the way wars are fought.

About this edition

• Publisher: Osprey Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1849083304
• ISBN 13: 9781849083300
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80
• Illustrator: Gilliland Alan, Shumate Johnny