Browning M2

The Browning M2 .50 caliber Machine Gun is a improved version on the Browning Model 1921 .50 caliber Machine Gun. The M2 was developed in 1932 as a joint effort by the Army as a heavy barrel ground gun and the Navy as a water cooled Anti-Aircraft gun. The light weight version developed for aircraft and also used on PT Boats were developed in the late 1930. All three versions were used during World War II by the United States and it's Allies. The M2 Heavy Barrel and M2 Aircraft have seen continued service into the 21st century.

In the film industry the M2 Browning has been used in several configurations M2 Heavy Barrel Ground Gun, M2 Water Cooled Anti-Aircraft Gun, M2 Light Weight Aircraft Gun and as a Mocked Up Russian DShK heavy machine gun.

Browning M2 Heavy Barrel

Browning M2HB on vehicle mount - .50 BMG

Browning M2HB on M3 tripod - .50 BMG.

Specifications

• Length: 61.42 inches
• Barrel Length: 45 inches
• Weight:
• :Gun: 84 pounds
• :M3 Tripod (Complete): 44 pounds
• :Total: 128 pounds
• Muzzle Velocity: 2930 feet per second
• Maximum effective range: 2000 meters with tripod mount
• Maximum range: 4.22 miles
• Maximum effective range: is 1,830 meters
• Cyclic rate of fire: 450-550 rounds per minute

Browning M2 Aircraft

Browning M2 Aircraft .50 BMG

Specifications

• Length: 56.25 inches
• Barrel Length: 36 inches
• Weight:
• :Gun: 61 pounds
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• Muzzle Velocity: 2840 feet per second
• Maximum effective range: 2,200 meters
• Maximum range: 7,400 meters
• Cyclic rate of fire: 780-850 rounds per minute

Browning M2 Water Cooled

Browning M2 .50 Water Cooled

Specifications

• Length: 65.93 inches
• Barrel Length: 45 inches
• Weight:
• :Gun: 100.5 pounds
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• Muzzle Velocity: 2935 feet per second
• Maximum effective range: 2,400 meters with tripod mount
• Maximum range: 6,770 meters
• Cyclic rate of fire: 450-600 rounds per minute

The Browning M2 appears in the following movies, TV shows, and video games:

Film

• Used on Tanks in Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

• Used by Audie Murphy in To Hell and Back

• The Green Berets (M2 Aircraft Version)

• Water cooled version in Tora, Tora, Tora

• Aircraft version in Memphis Belle

• Aircraft version mounted on the Tanks in Patton

• Aircraft version mounted on the Tanks in Battle of the Bulge

• Mounted on U.S. Army B-25 Mitchell bombers and P-40 Warhawk fighters in Pearl Harbor

• Junta soldiers and Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo in Rambo (vehicle and naval mountings with muzzle brakes)

• U.S. Army Rangers and Somali militiamen in Black Hawk Down

• Colombian terrorists in Toy Soldiers

• Government soldiers in Blood Diamond

• Serbian soldiers in Behind Enemy Lines

• Michael Gross as Burt Gummer in Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (in an M45 quadmount)

• Denzel Washington as Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling in Courage Under Fire

• U.S. military personnel and Cuba Gooding Jr. as Petty Officer Doris Miller in Pearl Harbor (Gooding using them in a twin naval anti-aircraft mounting)

• The 'Smokers' in Waterworld (M2 Aircraft version in an M45 quadmount)

• U.S. Army soldiers and U.S. Marines in War of the Worlds (1953) (2005)

• A member of the human resistance in The Terminator

• Seen in a hidden weapons cache in Terminator 2: Judgement Day

• Anthony Anderson as Tommy in Cradle 2 the Grave

• Ron Yuan as Laser Tech in Cradle 2 the Grave (dual mounted on a pedestal)

• U.S. Marine tank crews in Full Metal Jacket

• U.S. Marines in Jarhead

• Mounted on U.S. military vehicles in The Core

• The Kingdom

• Mounted on a U.S. Army Humvee in The Siege

• Mounted on U.S. Army Jeeps in The Day The Earth Stood Still(1951)

• Mounted on USMC Amphibious Assault Vehicles in Jurassic Park III

• Mounted on U.S. military vehicles in The Incredible Hulk

• Disguised as fictional heavy weapons on North Korean hovercraft in Die Another Day

• Death Race

• Mounted on U.S. Army M41 tanks and in U.S. Air Force F-86 fighters in The Iron Giant

• German defense position in The Longest Day (1963) (M2 Heavy Barrel version mounted in M45 quad mount)

• Free French Forces M4 Sherman in The Longest Day (1963)

• The Story of G.I. Joe (1945) (M2 Heavy Barrel Version mounted on truck)

• Fired by Robert Mitchum inThe Story of G.I. Joe (1945) (M2 Aircraft Version mounted on truck)

• U.S. Marines in The Siege of Firebase Gloria

• The Bridge at Remagen (1969) (Both aircraft and heavy barrel versions)

• The Hunters (1958) (Heavy Barrel version)

• Mounted on U.S. Army vehicles in Dragon Wars: D-War (heavy barrel version)

• Mounted on M-47 Tanks in The Devil's Brigade (1968) (heavy barrel version)

• A Walk In The Sun (1945) (M2 Heavy Barrel and Aircraft versions)

• They Were Expendable (1945) (M2 Aircraft version on PT Boats)

• U.S. Army soldiers in 28 Weeks Later

• Mounted on enemy jeeps in Iron Eagle

• On the wall in the hidden vault in Commando (1985)

Television

• Josh Stamberg as Lt. Alex 'Underpants' Hunter in Over There

• Tour of Duty

• Used by Green Army Men in Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King

• Aircraft version mounted on the Jeeps inThe Rat Patrol

• Aircraft version mounted on PT73 in McHale's Navy

• Ground Gun version at the airfield in Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

• Aircraft version mounted in a B-17 Flying Fortress in The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)

• Seen in The Unit

• Seen in Ultimate Force

Video Games

• Americas 10 Most Wanted (mounted sentry guns)

• 007: Nightfire (available in multiplayer mode only, with certain weapon sets)

• 007: Agent Under Fire

• Medal of Honor: Infiltrator (available in select first-person levels only)

• Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (turret-mounted on U.S. Navy vessels)

• ArmA: Armed Assault (mounted on U.S. military vehicles)

• Operation Flashpoint (mounted on U.S. military vehicles)

• Crysis(only seen in Crysis Warhead with blast shield)

• Battlefield: 1942

• Mounted on U.S. military vehicles in Battlefield 2

• Call of Duty: United Offensive (tripod & vehicle-mounted M2HB and M2 Aircraft)

• Call of Duty: Finest Hour

• Call of Duty: Big Red One

• Mounted on PBY Catalina Call of Duty: World at War (M2 Aircraft)

• Call of Duty: World at War: Final Fronts (Mounted on M10 tank destroyers in cutscene, non-playable)

• Steel Beasts (mounted on U.S. military vehicles)

• Conflict: Desert Storm 2 Back to Baghdad

• Combat Mission: Shock Force (mounted on U.S. Army vehicles)

• Project I.G.I

• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

• America's Army (mounted on U.S. military vehicles)

Anime

• Mounted on JGSDF tanks in Patlabor: The Movie 2

• Blood+