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| - The .50 BMG (also known as the 12.7×99mm NATO) is a large and powerful rifle cartridge in Counter-Strike Online.
- The .50 BMG is quite rare due to laws and price, especially in California, where .50 caliber rifles are banned. In the United Kingdom, it is possible to own a .50 BMG rifle as a section 1 firearm.
- It was used predominantly in Rambo IV, although it was featured in Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rambo III as well.
- The .50 Browning Machine Gun (.50 BMG) or 12.7×99mm NATO is a cartridge developed for the Browning .50 caliber machine gun in the late 1910s. Entering service officially in 1921, the round is based on a greatly scaled-up .30-06 cartridge.[citation needed] Under STANAG 4383, it is a standard cartridge for NATO forces as well as many non-NATO countries. The cartridge itself has been made in many variants: multiple generations of regular ball, tracer, armor piercing, incendiary, and saboted sub-caliber rounds. The rounds intended for machine guns are linked using metallic links.
- The .50 BMG is a heavy machinegun and anti-material rifle round designed in the early 1910's by John Browning. Based on the .30-06 but greatly scaled up, the .50 BMG first entered service in 1921 in the M2 heavy machinegun being deployed mostly in aircraft. By WWII the .50 BMG was the caliber of choice for both fighter and bomber aircraft, with the P-51 Mustang using six forward firing M2's and the B-17 Flying Fortress mounting up to 13.
- The .50 BMG cartridge is also used in long-range target and sniper rifles, as well as other .50 machine guns. The use in single-shot and semi-automatic rifles has resulted in many specialized match-grade rounds not used in .50 machine guns. A McMillan Tac-50 .50 BMG sniper rifle was used by Canadian Corporal Rob Furlong to bring off the then longest-range confirmed sniper kill in history (now 2nd longest-range), when he shot a Taliban combatant at 2,430 meters (2,657 yards) during the 2002 campaign in the Afghanistan War. This record was only recently eclipsed by 2 confirmed kills in November 2009 in Afghanistan against Taliban machine gunners by Craig Harrison, a member of the British Household Cavalry, using an Accuracy International AWM L115A3 long-range rifle chambered for .338 Lapua M
- The .50 Browning Machine Gun (12.7x99mm NATO) or .50 BMG is a cartridge developed for the Browning .50 Caliber machine gun in the late 1910s. Entering service officially in 1921, the round is based on a greatly scaled-up .30-06 cartridge. The cartridge itself has been made in many variants: multiple generations of regular ball, tracer, armor piercing, incendiary, and saboted sub-caliber rounds. The rounds intended for machine guns are linked using metallic links.
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