Browning M2 "Ma Deuce"

The Browning M2 .50 caliber machine gun began its development in World War I at the hands of the patron saint of firearms, John Moses Browning. It was designed to give infantry units enough firepower to repel and disable enemy tanks. The first working model and the predecessor to the M2 was the M1921 heavy machine gun which was produced both as a water-cooled gun as well as an aircraft-mounted gun, though the airframes of the era weren't strong enough to handle the recoil. The heavy-barrel variant was the first widely adopted version of the .50 caliber machine gun and was dubbed the M2HB in 1933 and has been blurring the lines between cover and concealment ever since. Current M2's are manufactured for the US Military by FN.