{"id":195689,"date":"2008-06-21T05:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/21\/m2-browning-may-leave-us-military-service\/"},"modified":"2008-06-21T05:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T10:49:00","slug":"m2-browning-may-leave-us-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/21\/m2-browning-may-leave-us-military-service\/","title":{"rendered":"M2 Browning May Leave US Military Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the General Dynamics is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/forums\/0,15240,169995,00.html\">developing a lightweight .50 cal machinegun to replace it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s supposed to be about &frac12; the weight of the venerable M2HB.<\/p>\n<p>If the new weapon is better, then it&#8217;s better, but the retirement of one of John Browning&#8217;s many classics is melencholy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the General Dynamics is developing a lightweight .50 cal machinegun to replace it. It&#8217;s supposed to be about &frac12; the weight of the venerable M2HB. If the new weapon is better, then it&#8217;s better, but the retirement of one of John Browning&#8217;s many classics is melencholy.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195689"}],"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=195689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}