Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-27 | Page 1 | New Machine Gun Smashes Tank Defense

I ew Machine ache Gun Smashes Task Tank Defense United I States Army Experts Develop Develop De De- De- De i. i Powerful Weapon I After Browning Browing f Type ROCK ISLAND May ay 27 The The United States arm army has developed ped a caliber machine gun capable of firing firing firing fir fir- ing a a bullet bullet- which at yards ards will penetrate the one-inch one armor plate of battle tanks Major Leo Wright army ordnance c department announced today at the annual convention of the ordnance ordnance ord ord- nance section of the American So Society ety of Mechanical Engineers at Rock Island arsenal The new weapon is an outgrowth of the war he said when tanks were armored to resist the caliber bullets and nd the machine guns then in use The caliber 50 gun fired a bullet weighing grains as a's s compared to the grains of the standard caliber caliber 30 am am- Th caliber G cartridges s weight one q quarter one of a pound each and the beat heat Generated by their discharge discharge dis dis- charge chargo is so o g geat eat that the guns gun's water jacket us uses s t tree three quarts of water for tot every 10 r rim m The gun is mOde mOde-l mode 10 g the lines I of the Bro Browning machine gun developed developed developed devel devel- during the war and weighs hs sixty sixty- five pounds exclusive of the two gallons gallons gallons gal gal- lons of water in the jacket The gun has a muzzle velocity of 2500 feet a second an effective range of from to yards ards and an extreme range of from to yards