Browning Machine Gun Caliber .50, M2, Water Cooled And Mounts - TM 9-226 War Department Technical Manual

Description of machine gun 5 Operation of machine gun 6 Description of antiaircraft machine-gun mount, caliber.30, M2 7 Description of antiaircraft machine-gun tripod mount, Ml 8 1. Purpose. — This manual is published for the information and guidance of the using arms and services.

2. Scope. — a. This manual contains all the essential information of a technical character required by the using arms for the identification, use, and care of the particular materiel described. In addition to describing the weapon and its mounts, it contains all the essential information required by the using arms to identify, use, and care for the ammunition, spare parts, and accessories, sighting and fire control equipment, and cleaning and preserving material.

&. The disassembling outlined in this manual is the only disassembling which the using troops are authorized to perform.

3. References. — All manuals to be used in conjunction with this manual are shown in the Appendix.

4. Data. — a. Machine gun.

Weight of gun with water, 36-inch barrel pounds — 110. 00 Weight of gun with water, 45-inch barrel do 121. 60 Weight of gun without water, 36-inch barrel do 04. 00 Weight of gim without water, 46-inch barrel do 100. 60 Weight of barrel assembly, 36-inch barrel do 14. 50 Weight of barrel assembly, 45-inch barrel do 17. 08 Over-all length of gun, 36-inch barrel inches — 57. 00 Over-all length of gun, 45-inch barrel do 65. 93 Number of grooves in barrel 8 Rate of automatic fire shots/minute 500-650 b. Antiaircraft maohme-gun motmt, caliber M .

Weight of mount, complete ! pounds — S l. 50 Weight of pedestal do 94. 00 Weight of tripod legs, each do 40. 00 Weight of pedestal base do Weight of cradle with pintle do 113. 26 Tripod spread, front to rear inches 77. 00 Tripod spread, right to left do 90. 00 Height from ground to center line of gun do 49. 00 Elevation, maximum.degrees €8.75 Depression, maximum do 15. 00 c. Antiaircraft machine-gun tripod mounts Ml.

Weight of mount, complete pounds Weight of tripod group do Weight of yoke, cradle, and shoulder stock group do Tripod spread, all directions inches Height from ground to center line of trunnions do Elevation, maximum — degrees d. Weight of ammumtion chest and amrmmitioTU Chest, ammunition, caliber.50, M2, empty pounds — 29 Chest, ammunition, caliber.50, M2, loaded dp 89 200 links, caliber.50 do 8 200 cartridges, caliber.50, Ml do 52 5. Description of machine grun. — a. General. — The Browning machine gun, caliber.50, M2, water-cooled, is a recoil operated, belt fed, water-cooled machine gun. The metallic link, disintegrating belt is used in all firing of the gun.

b. For use with M2 moumt. — For use with the M2 mount, guns of current manufacture are assembled with a flexible back plate assembly (D35272, fig. 1). This back plate assembly is identical with the back plate assembly described in c below except for the omission of tlie spade grips and the spade grip handle frame. Normally, the side plate trigger mechanism of the mount is used to fire the gun. Therefore, the flexible back plate serves as an additional means of firing the gun while the removal of the spade grips provides needed clearance. When guns 2.

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