What is Heavy machine gun?
'''Heavy machine gun''' is a term used to describe automatic firearms which are too heavy for one soldier to carry. In the early 20th century most were 7.62mm or .30 [[caliber]]. Nowadays the rounds fired by a heavy machine gun are .50 cal, which is 12.7mm x 99mm, or bigger. The largest in commonplace use are [[Russia]]n designs which fire rounds of 14.5mm caliber. Bigger ones are called [[autocannon]]s. ==Related pages== *[[Machine gun]] ==Other websites== *[http://world.guns.ru/machine/mg47-e.htm Heavy Machine Guns at World Guns] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914220332/http://world.guns.ru/machine/mg47-e.htm |date=2010-09-14 }} *[http://www.bayonetstrength.150m.com/Weapons/heavymachineguns/heavy_machine_guns.htm Heavy Machine Guns used in WWI and WWII] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040530034215/http://www.bayonetstrength.150m.com/Weapons/heavymachineguns/heavy_machine_guns.htm |date=2004-05-30 }} {{military-stub}} [[Category:Heavy machine guns| ]]