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The M2 .50-caliber 'Ma Deuce' will live forever

Then there is the M2 .50-Caliber Machine Gun. John Browning designed the core of this beast in 1918. It entered service soon ...
Washington Examiner

Special operations Marines to call for end of iconic machine gun: M2 ‘Ma Deuce’ will soon be replaced

Special operations Marines are aiming to replace their long-serving and iconic M2 machine gun. After more than 80 years with the M2 “Ma Deuce” weapon, Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, ...
Task & Purpose

The Navy is eyeing suppressors for its upgraded ‘Ma Deuce’ .50 cal machine guns

The Navy is considering giving Ma Deuce a quiet new update. In a request for information (RFI) issued on Tuesday, Naval Supply Systems Command announced a search for defense industry sources equipped ...
Military Times

Here’s how the Navy wants to silence the ‘Ma Deuce’

Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Cory Marks pulls the charging handle on a M2 machine gun during a qualification exercise aboard the dock landing ship USS Comstock (LSD 45). (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass ...
The National Interest

America’s Browning M2 Is Still the Best Machine Gun on Earth

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Browning M2 heavy machine gun—“Ma Deuce” or “50-cal” to the troops—casts a long shadow over U.S. military history. When Lauren Bacall Wellington served during the ...
StrategyPage

Weapons: Ma Deuce Successor

February 4, 2020: U.S. SOCOM (Special Operations Command) recently completed certification of the new Sig Sauer 338 (8.6mm) Machine Gun. This was unusual in many ways. First, the rifle round used here ...
The National Interest

Meet the Browning M2: The Mother of All Machine Guns

When Lauren Bacall Wellington served during the Iraq War, the former Army sergeant and combat medic did more than treat the wounded. Wellington spent her 13-month deployment from 2007 to 2008 with the ...