{"id":194269,"date":"2008-10-11T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/11\/ma-duce-replacement\/"},"modified":"2008-10-11T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T13:37:00","slug":"ma-duce-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/11\/ma-duce-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ma Duce Replacement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img368.imageshack.us\/img368\/9472\/gun50caliberusarmy03322yd1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/>They have been talking about replacing the .50 cal M2 Browning machine gun for decades, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/news\/publish\/army\/Lightweight_50-Caliber_Lethality_at_half_the_weight110016542.php\">they are talking about the LW50 as a replacement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The M2 has some flaws, most notably weight, a lack of a quick change barrel, and the need to set head spacing, but I&#8217;ll withhold judgment for now, particularly since I&#8217;ve never served of handled an automatic weapon.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the sticking point may be rate of fire, which is about 2\/3 that of the M2.<\/p>\n<p>I always wanted to be John Browning when I grew up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have been talking about replacing the .50 cal M2 Browning machine gun for decades, and now they are talking about the LW50 as a replacement. The M2 has some flaws, most notably weight, a lack of a quick change barrel, and the need to set head spacing, but I&#8217;ll withhold judgment for now, particularly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1006,1025,1126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-technology","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}