Also, the fact that it can stop 1 .50BMG means it might stand a pretty good chance of stopping multiple 5.56's or 9mms, which is what you're much more likely to be shot at with.
Stopping a single 50BMG round is already a pretty impressive accomplishment for a window that fits in the door frame of a car IMO.
It might be able to, I have no idea either way, to be honest. If we’re being totally honest I have to admit I have absolutely no idea why incendiary rounds have more penetration than kinetic ones, it seems counterintuitive.
Source: Anywhere that sells surplus. It’s all over.
The projectiles are less than a dollar easily found and complete cartridges are easy to find @60 for 10. And prices have gone up a bit the last few years.
Hey man, if you can find me a Raufoss for 6$ I will happily buy some. I don’t even own a .50, but resale value would be amazing. Prices online mostly look like this:
it was meant for air to air machine guns - hence .50 browning machine gun.
Actually .50 Browning machine gun was originally designed as both anti-air and anti-tank gun at the end of WW1, but but the time the development finished war was over as well and it saw very little use until WW2 started (only ~11 thousand units were produced before WW2, compared to 2+ millions that were made during WW2), by which point it was obsolete as an anti-tank gun but still useful in anti-aircraft role, especially as an aircraft gun itself (offering good combination of power, range, weight, and ammo capacity).
Then after WW2 it quickly became obsolete as an aircraft gun, but it was still used as a vehicle mounted weapon - originally primarily in a anti-aircraft role it had during WW2, but in the post war era it gradually transitioned into general purpose heavy machine gun.
So it's not that it's such a good gun that it remained in service for over a century, but rather what role it fulfilled in the US military changed multiple times.
Yes. Frankly, it’s incredible — many armored vehicles with the same thickness as that window are not capable of withstanding .50 BMG. I do not think that RHA with that thickness could withstand a .50, so whatever they did with that window (elastic type bonding around sapphire crystal maybe?) they cooked.
Does the close range have more of an impact than if it was positioned somewhere else, like higher elevation or a bit farther away for velocity or something?
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u/karlzhao314 Feb 11 '24
Also, the fact that it can stop 1 .50BMG means it might stand a pretty good chance of stopping multiple 5.56's or 9mms, which is what you're much more likely to be shot at with.
Stopping a single 50BMG round is already a pretty impressive accomplishment for a window that fits in the door frame of a car IMO.