Okay, let's examine those claims: First, the notion of a "heat-seeking nuclear murder bullet" is a novel one. I've never heard of such a thing in .50 BMG. Do you have any citations or references? I suspect you listened to the idiocy of New York Assemblywoman Patricia Eddington, who wouldn't know a RAUFOSS round from her asshole. BTW, the RAUFOSS Mk 211 Mod 0 APEI (Armor piercing, explosive, incendiary) is a restricted Class III "destructive device" and is not available to civilians AT ALL.Jörmungandr wrote:Seth wrote:Are you being sarcastic? If so you need to make that clear. I'll await criticism of this statement until I know whether you're being sarcastic or serious.Jörmungandr wrote:... everyone knows that .50BMG is a heat-seeking armor-piercing explosive tipped bunker busting anti-aircraft murdergun round.
I'm being totally serious. John Moses Browning personally designed the .50BMG round as an all purpose round fit both for slaughtering poor starving cancer babies AND for taking out 747s in mid flight with a single heat-seeking nuclear murder bullet. If you don't know that, you just don't know history.
I find no reference to a "heat-seeking nuclear murder bullet" round in any military ordinance list for the .50 BMG, although I do find reference to the M1 incendiary "blue tip" anti-aircraft round, which is neither "nuclear" nor "heat-seeking." Unless such a round hit a fuel tank or critical system, it would likely take multiple rounds to bring down a 747.
Second, the .50 BMG does come in several different varieties of projectile, including AP, APT, APIT, SLAP, and RAUFOSS. The AP varieties can penetrate both armor plate up to 1 inch for plain steel and 0.9 inches of face-hardened (AR) plate steel. But the round cannot "bust bunkers," meaning that while certain projectiles can penetrate structures made of common concrete block and standard 8" unreinforced concrete walls, penetrating "bunkers" built of reinforced concrete 2 feet thick or more requires hundreds of rounds.
