World war 2 machineguns

[Captain Cogle]

You guys forgot about the Breda 38 Italian heavy machine gun. It did some damage.

[rero360]

US M2 .50 cal was originally conceived as an anti-tank gun for WWI, but final design was not achieived before Nov. 11 1918. The US did adopt it in 1923, with all branches adopting by 1936. The first major design change came.......last year. A manual safety that blocks manipulation of the butterflies, has been added to the backplate.

Interesting, I haven't seen any of the new ones yet, I always just stuck a empty case or a live round under the butterflies to prevent a ND, worked well and was fast to remove and get the weapon in action. I'm sure troops have been doing that since the system was first fielded.

[Astig Boy]

How about a 20mm side magazine fed sniper rifle.
Solothurn Swiss Anti-Tank Cannon (S-18/100 20mm)

http://mvsn.forumcommunity.net/?t=5487110

[Captain Cogle]

How about a 20mm side magazine fed sniper rifle.
Solothurn Swiss Anti-Tank Cannon (S-18/100 20mm)


http://mvsn.forumcommunity.net/?t=5487110

Unless it was purchased and used by the Axis powers then you are throwing out a bad example. The Swiss were neutral.

[smle-man]

The Germans had a single shot bolt action AT rifle in WW1 that fired a 13mm round.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauser_1918_T-Gewehr

In WW2 they used an 8mm ultra high velocity AT rifle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerb%C3%BCchse

And there was the British Boys bolt action AT rifle of WW2 in .55

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_anti-tank_rifle

[Eddie1965]

The Marines had a Boys in .50 cal in the earlier part of the war.

[IrishJoe3]

I'd have assumed if I never read history, that captured equipment would be put asside and not used because of its unstandard nature and not as hell built as German stuff. But that wasn't the case

Consider who filled the German ranks, especially later in the war....east European conscripts, old men and teenage boys. At that point beggers can't be choosers.

[YourHuckleberry]

MG42- Hitlers Buzzsaw

[B Strong]

During world war 2, the US military in both pacific & european theaters use the M2 .50 cal machineguns in a variety of configuration. Did the enemy had any equivalent in firepower for infantry?

No enemy nation had a HMG in a like caliber.

Every nation had MG's in their service rifle caliber.