FORT BENNING, Ga. -- More than a dozen Soldiers from Fort Benning test-fired an enhanced .50-caliber machine gun that allows troops to rapidly change the barrel without having to check or reset ...

Dirty Harry is now outgunned: Smith & Wesson has introduced its biggest handgun ever, a .50-caliber Magnum. The five-shot revolver with an 8 1/2-inch barrel weighs about 4 1/2 pounds _ roughly a pound ...

Marine units have received an upgraded .50-caliber machine gun that aims to make firing quicker, safer and less visible to the enemy. Marine Corps Systems Command officials in Quantico, Virginia, ...

U.S. Marines with School of Infantry – East, Infantry Training Battalion, conduct live fire qualification with the M2A1 ...

The Army currently operates 24,000 standard M2 machine guns and roughly 25,000 upgraded M2A1 .50-cal weapons designed with a number of improved features. The improved M2A1 is, among other things, ...

The Army owns what’s called the Technical Data Package, or TDP, for the new lightweight .50-cal; vendors will have to “build to print” and execute the government’s existing specs, Battista explained.

FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Army News Service, Oct. 2, 2008) -- As Soldiers training for combat look to lighten their load, they can look forward to the Lightweight .50-Caliber Machine Gun. The LW50, an ...

One weapon has continually served the U.S. Armed Forces on land, at sea, and in the air for 105 years: the M2 heavy machine gun. First developed in 1918, the M2 has been in steady service throughout ...

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Jamaury M. Jimenez, a machine gunner with Advanced Machine Gun Course (AMGC) 1-22, fires polymer rounds from a .50-caliber machine gun at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, ...

Marine Corps Cpl. Philip D. Bell, an antitank missile gunner with 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, shoots a .50-caliber machine gun mounted on a Humvee during exercise Comanche Run at Fort ...