12.7x108mm Is referred to as the russian fifty calliber. It was used widely in the more widely know DShK "Dushka" Heavy machine gun and the KSVK Russian anti materiel sniper rifle.
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| - 12.7x108mm Is referred to as the russian fifty calliber. It was used widely in the more widely know DShK "Dushka" Heavy machine gun and the KSVK Russian anti materiel sniper rifle.
- The 12.7×108 mm cartridge is a heavy machine gun and anti-materiel rifle cartridge used by the former Soviet Union, the former Warsaw Pact, modern Russia, and other countries. It is used in the same roles as the NATO .50 BMG (12.7×99mm NATO) cartridge. The two differ in bullet shape and weight, and the casing of the 12.7x108mm is slightly longer and thicker, allowing it to hold slightly more of a different type of powder. The 12.7x108mm can be used to engage a wide variety of targets on the battlefield, and will destroy unarmored vehicles, penetrate lightly armored vehicles and damage external ancillary equipment (i.e.: searchlights, radar, transmitters, vision blocks, engine compartment covers) on heavily armored vehicles such as tanks. Armor piercing .50 cal ammunition will penetrate aro
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- Winter War, World War II, Korean War, Portuguese Colonial War, Vietnam War, Cambodian Civil War, Cambodian–Vietnamese War, Six-Day War, War of Attrition, Yom Kippur War, Soviet war in Afghanistan, Iran–Iraq War, Gulf War, Chechen War, Iraq War, War in Afghanistan, Libyan civil war, Syrian civil war, many others
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| - The 12.7×108 mm cartridge is a heavy machine gun and anti-materiel rifle cartridge used by the former Soviet Union, the former Warsaw Pact, modern Russia, and other countries. It is used in the same roles as the NATO .50 BMG (12.7×99mm NATO) cartridge. The two differ in bullet shape and weight, and the casing of the 12.7x108mm is slightly longer and thicker, allowing it to hold slightly more of a different type of powder. The 12.7x108mm can be used to engage a wide variety of targets on the battlefield, and will destroy unarmored vehicles, penetrate lightly armored vehicles and damage external ancillary equipment (i.e.: searchlights, radar, transmitters, vision blocks, engine compartment covers) on heavily armored vehicles such as tanks. Armor piercing .50 cal ammunition will penetrate around 25 mm of armor. Normal full metal jacket .50 cal ammunition will only dimple tank armor, causing no damage. In the Finnish Defence Forces, the NSV chambered in 12.7×108 is used primarily in an anti-aircraft role by all branches.
- 12.7x108mm Is referred to as the russian fifty calliber. It was used widely in the more widely know DShK "Dushka" Heavy machine gun and the KSVK Russian anti materiel sniper rifle.
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