Posted on 08/06/2007 5:37:38 PM PDT by Renfield
How about a 20mm Vulcan -plenty of pain there.
Yup very true 7.62 x 51 is plenty ugly a round.
“I never saw anyone “wounded” by a .50 cal.”
Well I did. Don’t know how or why she wasn’t dead, but we took her SKS rifle away from her, tried to stop the bleeding and then got her a medicac helo to a hospital in Saigon. All I can say is that it wasn’t her time to die. Three 50 cal in the chest and nothing lethal. I’ll bet she’s got a mean scar today, but she’s probably still walkin’ around.
That it is. But it's big heavy beast with a fearsome recoil. Although there was once a towed version, I think the only things that mount them now are aircraft, at least F-16 or larger helicopter size, and armored vehicles (a version of the M-113). I was thinking of a lighter replacement for the M-2, Maybe even one with a hand crank like the original Gatlings, or one powered by propellant gases somehow. But even failing those and electrically or hydrolically powered, something to mount on tanks, self-propelled artillery, wheeled armored vehicles and even the HUMMV and that V-bottomed armored car, where an M-2 is used today. The Vulcan is too big, for some of those applications, and might tip over the lighter ones if fired to the side. Maybe a 3 barrelled version in .50 BMG.
In Houston perhaps, with beaucoup grandchildren. :)
Many VC, when they found out what their northern brethren *really* had in mind, became part of the "boat people".
3ea. .50 cal in the chest? She should have been minus a chest and back!
3 in the chest. We couldn’t believe it either.
Of course we didn’t render aid until we got the rifle pried out of her fist. Amazing that she hadn’t let go if it as she lay there gurgling. It’s like those pictures you sometime see of some guy with a piece of rebar through his head and they patch him up and he’s just fine.
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