Few weapons have defined the tempo of modern warfare quite like the machine gun. It isn't a new concept by any means, with the notion of rapid fire volleys being something dating back to the Age of ...

The U.S. military has spent a century modernizing almost everything with the exception of one machine gun. The Browning M2 entered service when biplanes and trench warfare still defined combat, yet it ...

Marines operating an M2 Browning machine gun mounted on a tripod at Khe Sanh Combat Base, Vietnam. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images) For over a century the M2 Browning .50-caliber machine gun, known ...