Juodas Varnas, on 17 July 2015 - 03:24 AM, said:
Are the MGs REAAAALLY .50 cal?
I mean they do weigh 500 kilograms (for IS). It's a bit hard for me to picture a 500 kilogram .50 cal machine gun.
I mean they do weigh 500 kilograms (for IS). It's a bit hard for me to picture a 500 kilogram .50 cal machine gun.
I like to think most of that weight lies in the hardware necessary to feed each gun no matter where the ammo is located in the 'Mech. Even still, though, that's 1,100 pounds or about a third of my car's weight. Since they do damage to armor, each MG actually being a 20 or 25 mm cannon actually makes more sense to me. At the very least, 14.5 mm, a caliber that is/was actually used in an anti-tank role as well as anti-personnel.