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M3 Aircraft 50BMG Machine Gun: The Ventilator During World War II, a faster-firing Browning was developed for aircraft use. The AN/M3 features a mechanical or electrically boosted feed mechanism to increase the rate of fire to around 1,200 rounds per minute. More info on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning#AN.2FM3.2C_GAU-21.2FA.2C_and_M3P
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None of these are M3's....
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Mounted on the glorious F86. The downside to that plane was if it got hit by an enemy it would rip apart, not sure if that's it's design or 23mm/ 37mm guns.
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Also the buffer tube is too small, it is an M2
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Counted the sounds, around 650 RPM not an M3
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the gau 21 is not electronically boosted. Its recoil operated, and it fires 1100 rpm on its own cyclic energy. Trust me, I actually fly with the system.
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bird man at the end of the video
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This is the M2, the fire rate of the M3 is almost as fast as the black hawk mini gun. The M3 was insanely fast because it was used to fight Vietnamese La jets from Russia (which was basically a declaration of war from Russia to the U.S.), but yea the M3 and the F86F was an awesome jet
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I believe this is the M2 not the M3, but still very cool, The F-86F Sabre brought me here.
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This is indeed an m2, not an m3. You can tell by the size of the buffer on the back of the gun.
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I agree, this appears to be an an/m2. In the last few clips, it seems like it might even be a standard m2. Take a look at the gau 21/A. That's the fire rate it should be seeing, at 1200rpm.
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I think its a M2 not M3 Browning MG
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The bearcat had 4 of them xD
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a sabre has 6 of these things wtf man
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'Merica
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This is no M3.. no boosted feed, too low a rate of fire.
Just another M2 mislabeled for views. Boo this man, -
F-86 Sabre guns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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:3 they were epic in jets
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That thing chews through it's ammo really fast... now imagine you have 6 of them!
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Damn, an other overweight gun enthusiast!
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Was this at dragonmans