Browning M2HB .50 BMG at the Range 

I bet he can do it in 30 seconds or less under perfect conditions.

He was a USMC armorer so he could probably do it in his sleep if he wanted to lol

Watching it yesterday I was pretty sure he was forcing himself to do it slow enough for the camera to follow.

I was a tank mechanic in the Swiss army and had to mount and dismount a turret mounted m2 every day by the books. After the first week of two it feels as natural as locking your front door when leaving in the morning except you got a pair of feeler gauges instead of keys in your hand.

We had one of these on our m113 apc, and they are an utter joy to shoot and maintain. The headspace and timing is easy to master, after a few dozen times, and it is far easier than working with an m60 machine gun. My fondest memory on the range was cutting trees with this monster. After a while, going to the range with an m16 is routine and boring, but with a 50 cal, everyone wanted to shoot it.

Hmmm I like where you are going with this. Keep up the great work btw

Not even kidding our doctrinal count for a killing burst is 5x "die mother fucker die"

Browning, no coincidences

Dude, exactly.

I would say that it matches better with Anaal Nathrakh - Forward ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lmloi1rcres.html

must be a drum solo...

Didn't see that. It didn't show with, without CC, I didn't see it.

Primordial dubstep

@@Svensk7119 Probably took it out

Go to my safe space!!! 🌌

R.I.P R Lee Ermey

Especially if you see a mob of useful idiot SOCIALST UTOPIAN FOOLS attempting anarchist actions towards your area. WE ARE READY FROM NOW ON IF THEY TRY THAT FREE CITY SHIT.

What about Dushka?

What about Zip .22?

Now imagine in WW2, P-47's ground crew test firing simultaneously 8 of those things, after servicing them...

@@magoid or those half tracks that had quad mounts of these.. were there even 8 mounted ones, not sure

@keith moore About 5-8 dollars for every round it fires.

The M2HB - Bringing death to your enemies while keeping the Christmas with you!

Probably is some sort of bell sound with lowered pitch and slightly distorted

An Jesus wept.

i was just going to say that hahahhahah

Like the bells of a cathedral :)

No one argues with Ma Deuce.

When Ma Deuce speaks, people feel the concussion!

Yep. You know she's talking from miles away.

Lol, or just walk around in a daze, screaming "whaaaaat?"

He ducked the process up so bad even a shade tree mechanic looks good

This is why you want dedicated instructors to teach people what they need to know. Many professionals are very good at what they are doing, but that doesn't make them good instructors. And people are different and learn in different ways, so an instructor constantly have to evaluate his students needs and adjust his instructions accordingly.

"YADADADADADA"

@keith moore Don't fuck with Ma's kids.

When Ma starts talkin', bodies start droppin'

Ma deuce turning cover into concealment

"Everyone respects Ma Deuce."

Nobody : Absolutely nobody : German soldier : - - - Starts blasting ERIKA in his head and sends lead down range - -

But I should mention, that we germans are trained to save ammo, by shooting short bursts. The MG3 eats whole belts in the blink of an eye, compared to the Ma deuce

That's not a machine gun...This is a M2HB, it laughs at your tiny machinegun. Said with humor

(1944 intensifies)

@@marcoh.3467 the shooting in bursts wasnt so much to save ammo as it was to save the barrel.

Makes sense. It has a slow enough rate of fire that once you and the gun get over the initial shock of firing the first couple of rounds, you can just chug merrily along.

That and be liberal with the clp and it will be silky smooth

A guy I worked with said that what you did - was start firing and then walk your fire onto the target. If you just tried to fire a short burst - the gun wouldn't stabilize and you'd never hit anything. .

Walking fire into the target uses up your ammo fast and makes your weapon heat up fast, too. The general rule for getting on target with the M" is as with every other machine gun. A short burst. View the impact and then correct your aim according to the impact. It does climb a fair bit, depending on what kind of mount you got it it, but a rule of thumb is to correct you point of aim from the lowest impact of your previous burst.

The video out there of a US soldier telling a trainee "It's a *machine gun!* " is funny.

Hallelujah brother.

Praise the Lord Browning....for it is he who is the maker of death....his disciple Ma Deuce the giver of death eternal... here endeth the sermon

Amen

amen

Yea verily.

How is this comment 20 hours old if the vid has only been up for 4 minutes?

@@georgeheld1901 patreon

@@georgeheld1901 He occasionally puts the firing video thumbnail at the end of the overview video by mistake!

👍🤣🤣🤣

ROFL

The book has a critical warning that prohibits what he did because serious injury or death can occur

Lil story from my superior about why there is a hole in the wall of the cleaning room (room used to clean the collective weapons) there was this guys that had to clean this 12.7 alone because she came back from afghanistan later, so the man start his shit to clean it up does the security manoeuver and fuck it, the fuck Spring go flying in his shoulder take a lil bit of meat with it and go fucking flying into the wall creating the hole we now know, poor guys was quite shocked

I gasped when he charged the bolt with the backplate off. That "little" recoil spring as he called it in the previous video is extremely powerful. I legitimately couldn't believe that someone who knows the gun would charge it with the backplate off.

As a former 0331, I had the exact same reaction.

"I see the back plate, drill sergeant".

What war is a happy one?

Sounds more like happy to have got through it still breathing, happy bein a relative term 🏴‍☠️the world will forever owe these people

He sounds like a great man. It's hard work to stay in top shape with all of this. Without proper maintenance, and without his guns, his plane isn't really any good is it? It sucks that all those men died. Funny, America has never really been invaded or threatened in such a way that we have to summon up an army to defend ourselves. It's always retaliatory invasions... That's better than having no army at all though right?

Indeed. The irony is that the one time Americans fought a great war on their own soil in earnest was the Civil War, and that should have been a solid warning to the world at large that Americans were most stubborn and determined warriors when roused. Germany and Japan didn't heed that warning in 1941, and it fell to men like my kinsman to make them see the error of their ways. He didn't serve with joy, but he served willingly, and didn't regret seeing the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany alike being brought to ruins by their own folly and his efforts.@@bilbo_gamers6417

@@genericpersonx333 Ah, so World War 2. Yeah, that was probably as close as you can ever get to a justified war... Men like that are why the USSR didn't take over Europe. I mean, if we didn't get involved in Europe, the reds would've "Liberated" men women and children all the way to the ocean. Never a pleasant thing to take part in but unfortunately this war was kind of unavoidable. Good on him for doing his part. That was certainly not an easy job, even just from a logistical perspective. Industry had to be put on overdrive everywhere for our men to even have a chance of staying alive. He saved American lives by doing what he did in the end, in my view.

Yes, they seemed like they were rushing.

Excellent post but please let me make some corrections In a proper timed gun the only time barrel extension contacts the trunnion is on the very first shot all parts fully forward. There is no soft contact during automatic fire as the extension will never contact as it recoils before contact Proper timed gun does not fire out of battery and the term battery does not apply to this class of weapon. The term out of battery only applies to Arty. It is slang when used here. The correct term is locked or unlocked

PS The trigger bar pushes down on the Sear not up But you did give the best read Ive ever seen in RU-vid ever !

Forgot to mention the the trigger lever pushes up on the aft end of the trigger bar. Front of trigger bar thus pivots down

@@Mekhanic1 my guess would be that it's just being on camera. The guy's probably fine under fire though!

@@cuckertarlson3329 sage wisdom

@@cuckertarlson3329 if that spring is under pressure it will pop out the back is what they are talking about.

Not what i wanta do with butterfly plate off!!!

@@cuckertarlson3329 maybe the spring can go flying out? Maybe it's just something mostly harmless but you screamed at for doing anyway.

​@@cuckertarlson3329 Charging the weapon with the backplate off you are betting the little pin holding the recoil spring assembly won't slip. If the recoil spring pops loose under compression it will leave a mark. You wanna risk the recoil spring poking your eye out?

Okay.....We need someone to sing this in the background of another match video. Like Personal Shotgun Jesus was.

That´s pretty glorious

I think I need another small sherry . . .

😭😭😭😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏

I thought I was good for wanting to make a haiku. You take the cake.

If he had only did it correctly

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Hello armourer, I am going into battle and I want your tightest timings.

@@asdgashash *my tightest timing is too tight for you,stranger*

@@asdgashash You need to call Zach

I second that.

Patreons are suckers.

@@CadillacDriver So is your mother this christmas

@@johny__hazmat8133 Only for Christmas? I heard it was year-round.

@@CadillacDriver your comment spurned me to increase the monthly donations to the channels I support.

When you have an M2, most cover is actually just concealment

@@bwilliamstown M-2 turning rock walls into gravel for a century! Don't settle for second best. Geoff Who notes FN is the current producer.

BLAM-BLAM-BLAM-BLAM-BLAM!! "Wall? What wall?"

I feel you. I got to fire the M85 on the M60A3 (once, because our S3 was a kindly old man who took pity on his sad sack loader one day), but somehow it's not the same. My Guard unit had vehicle-mounted M2s, but I never even touched one, or learned how to do headspace and timing. I've always felt I missed out on something essential. Kind of like how I didn't get bayonet training in Basic.

I was a track driver (M113A1) in early '70s. Had to hump the M2 back up to Arms room after field exercises. Took 2 guys.

Heck, we are still using the principals he designed in the majority of weapons today. Especially pistols.

@@Predator42ID M2 and A10. Because perfection achieved.

What's also funny is the look of this gun is almost timeless. It looks just as much like a gun from the 1920s as it does a gun from the 1950s and 2000s, even in the 2020s it still looks modern

Well the M2A1 now, new flash hiders and no loner requiring headspace or timing.

@@edwardschmitt5710 Obligatory: Depends on the situation, given CAS isn't a simple 1 sized fits all question. quick reaction: multiroles like the F-16 and F/A-18. F-16 has been the top CAS workhorse in Iraqistan since 2006, and the F/A-18 is number two. Why? Because they can get from the airfield to overhead the units needing support faster than anything else quick reaction with the option to loiter: F-35 and F-15E. They can react fast, and they can loiter for 60+ minutes. long loiter: AC-130, A-29 and AT-6. None of them are fast, but neither is the A-10. Where they excel is their ability to stay up for 8+ hours, and hit targets as needed. CAS in high threat environment: F-35. Literally nothing else will make it to the target CAS in low threat environment: A-29 and AT-6. A-10 costs some $17K an hour, while A-29 and AT-6 are around $1500 an hour. Don't need over 10x the cost just to hit a Toyota Hillux A-10 is in a weird limbo where it's too slow for quick reaction, can't loiter as long as other platforms, can't survive high threat environments, and costs over 10X as much as low threat options. Beyond that, CAS is virtually all done with PGMs (precision guided munitions) nowadays anyways, so be it 500lb JDAM or 250lb SDB, or 70mm APKWS, the platform carrying the ordnance doesn't realistically matter. A-10's claims to fame were; GAU-8: could barely even kill base model T-62s, and anything newer/more modern it can't kill. Had to rely almost exclusively on Mavericks in Desert Storm to kill armor, while the 30mm was used to do what even 20mm can do; shoot up unarmored vehicles and lightly armored IFVs. armored: it's realistically not as survivable as people meme it to be. They were the most lost platform of Desert Storm, and weren't even allowed on the front lines for over half of it. Plus, having to fly slow means you're going to take more damage simply because you're an easier target. Iraqi flak claimed more than a few A-10s. Great visual identification: sensors are simply better than the Mk I eyeball. F-35's EOTs can register a person in a window from 70nmi out. A-10 pilots using the Mk I eyeball are responsible for the most friendly fire events of any platform used for CAS. Sensors don't trick you into believing that allied marker is an Iraqi unit badge, the Mk I eyeball does. So what's the advantage beyond simple meme-ery? There realistically isn't one. Sure, it's cheaper than the F-16 or F-35 to operate, but when it can only do COIN, might as well buy A-29s or AT-6s and get the same capability while saving over $2B a year. What could the USAF do with over $20B saved over just a decade? That's almost half the initial B-21 order expected. That's over 250 F-35s. That's the entire RTD&E for the NGAD program. Just from replacing a platform with another

Needs nice cigar in place of one of the rounds, when the gun stops, you hear a match being struck, the piano music starts & smoke rings appear out the barrel . . . ahhh : )

NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM

It's like one of those kitten moneyboxes, with the little hand that grabs the coins. Except that it's a moneybox that converts all your money into loud noises.

@@AshleyPomeroy That's what it was reminding me of! Thank you! I couldn't quite place it

@@AshleyPomeroy "Except that it's a moneybox that converts all your money into -loud noise- *eargasms* " Fixed

I don't think the no go gauge is tungsten. I remember being told that they were expensive to replace because the measurements were so precise. Maybe I'm wrong, wouldn't be the first time.

@@sleepingninjaquiettime Just a standard ground feeler gauge I'd think. Expensive because it's custom, and the military gets reamed a lot harder than they did in WWII.

In 1998 they were $350.00 to replace. @@sleepingninjaquiettime

The future is now

Zuzu’s little petals.

Or somebody goes to hell in a liquid state

@@jehb8945 well Someone has to fly them down, so I guess it is a rookies first job?

And every time Trump tweets and SJW cries.

@@johnwhauserman ys

@@slaughterround643 So is your pfp

It spits 650 grain pills of pure testosterone. F yea!

@@slaughterround643 gotchu on deez nuts

what did he say? i can't see it

@@LIONTAMER3D is your brain in your head?

Another YT "serviceman" 🤦‍♂️

That's what TMs are for! Geoff Who has dealt with some pretty sketchy unit armorers.

I was C Co. 4/8 8th ID 35 years ago and I can guarantee you that absolutely everyone in our unit was trained to do this. No shit. You had a lousy CO and 1stSgt.

@@Rick-mn5zy stolen valor is rife on YT. It is absolutely atrocious behaviour.

@@Rick-mn5zy We were an MI BN. Even though the guns were assigned to the M-548s carrying the MSQ-103s, nobody had seen an M2 in AIT or subsequent school training. Our supply SGTs doubled as armorers (common, I know), and none of these guys knew what to do with the gun. All of that was moot, as in 2 years I was never able to get .50 ammo added to the yearly training ammo forecast. I wonder how many non combat arms units there are that have M2s assigned but never quite get around to taking them to the range.

Oh god, this. My grandma, at 92, could still pin me to the ground using one hand. Still dont know if the cracking sound was the bones in my wrist or her rheumatism 🤣 Probably Both! I love you Oma, and I miss you dearly❤️

And both are contemporary to John Moses Browning

There was a wall?

See that's extremely important. Our Roe in Afghanistan strictly stated we were not suppose to use our 50's on infantry targets in the open. This made it critically important to mention that wall behind the bush the guy was hiding behind. You were simply removing the wall for conventional firearms to do their job. sadly the bad man just happend to be behind that wall behind the bush. Oh there was no wall? Are you Shure though because I swore there was a wall their sir.

With an October date no less!

It's a Christmas miracle! =D

"THE FUTURE IS NOW, OLD MAN"

A time machinegun!

That's the way it is when you train with a weapon on the reg. I've been out since '07, and I can still do a functions check on an M-16A2, without any thought at all.

I bet he has done h&t in his sleep.

Yep, yep, yep. Takes me back to my days in the Army and the infantry guys instructing us POG pukes on weapons systems we SHOULD have been trained on. And yeah, some of those guys could (and did) do stuff like this literally blindfolded. IIRC, the Expert Infantry Badge standard for unloading, disassembling, reassembling, function-checking, reloading, and firing an M240B was something like 2 minutes or less.

Being able to set up a gun practically in your sleep is an important military skill, since in combat you may well need to do it when you are exhausted and have not slept for days.

He completely fucked it up

I gripped a little too when I saw that.

How come, would the bolt come out the back or is it just frowned upon?

@@notforsaletoday1895 there's a few strong springs under compression when you cock the gun, not a good time / way to find out a detent is worn down

@@notforsaletoday1895 Under tension that recoil spring and guide can come flying out the back. Instructors used to demonstrate its effect against a sheet of plywood or some such. It's also listed in the Operator's Manual as an official practice that you're not supposed to do. Yeah, there's a detent holding it in place, but think of it like standing in front of a loaded pistol with the safety engaged. I wouldn't do that either.

I have huge balls. But in reality it isn't as dangerous as people make it out to be. A 1919 drive rod scares me way more.

The Heavy Stubber, mounted on many of the Imperial Guard's vehicles 40,000 years later is still basically a Ma Deuce with some furniture changes.

I mean in a scifi setting I worked on with some folks on a Discord I basically pushed the idea of the M2 still existing but in a form using the far more powerful ammo of the era. but it sticks around beause sometimes a big ole bullet still solves the problem. And the only design changes where just evolving it to handle ever higher chamber pressures of scifi ammos.

So some minor materials upgrades, propellant upgrades and projectile material changes with no mechanical change at all? That sounds about right. Or the design might be public domain and colonists need something that works right now. Or both, both is good.

Yeah, and most people wouldn't score expert that way either.

That was very surprising to me, too!

pretty normal for someone with armorer training, and especially true if he worked in a grunt armory. Given his apparent age, he might even have worked as an armorer in a combat theater -- which would have meant that he needed to check headspace on any .50 that needed service or parts.

They had. It fled.

@@andreasmartin7942 😂😂

Look up Kentucky ballistics he did a collab with same guest with the mini gun and ma deuce

Ours did not have single shot mode, it was all trigger control...

Why not just get a semi auto .50 rifle at that point?

@@chucksneed1264 Probably because the belt-fed is a little more fun and closer to owning a real M2.

@@kentvesser9484 anything belt fed that isn't semi auto is gonna run you at LEAST $15,00]

@@howardwhite1507 Most likely not a M2.

Same. I always wondered how that worked. And now we kinda know.

He fucked up the time process He did it completely wrong He even violated a Caution Warning Note

@@wollywolly2734 Can you explain what he did wrong?

@@PBMS123 See my post at the top Serious he did the entire process completely wrong so much so that the Operators manual clearly warns NOT to do all the things did I mean its a perfect demo of what not to do

@@wollywolly2734 So I've never handled the M2 that much, but I just found 3 different manuals that specified 3 different things about timing. Regardless of the manual there is certainly a warning that states not to charge the weapon with the back plate off. However one of the differences I noticed was in the Army manual I found, it has a warning that specifies to not adjust timing with the back plate off, and a note to not attempt to fire the weapon by depressing the trigger bar. In a separate manual from usord(dot)com, it doesn't have either such warning or note, and specifically says to adjust timing with the back plate off, by depressing the trigger bar. A handout from the USMC that I found on training for the M2 states about the same as the army manual, except the warning just states to "Never cock the gun or insert the gauge with the backplate off", but does say to use the trigger bar to fire the weapon (edit for more context)"Screw the timing adjustment nut up (to the right) one click at a time. Push the trigger after each click. Keep doing this until the gun fires. NOTE:You must apply firm pressure to the trigger lever." Just posting this for other people to see, I would generally trust military technical orders, but I'm not an armorer, so maybe the military instructions are that way for a reason and are not actually completely necessary, maybe they're out of date. Depending on whose manual he's following he didn't do anything wrong (except charging it with the back plate off).

I bet he slipped up on purpose 😉

A surprise to be sure, but a welcomed one!

@@Menaceblue3 1... Letter. We were on the verge of greatness, we were this close!

Cool to hear, I figure opening the top was not required but like when you see the WW1 heavies being demonstrated it is to show the mechanics.

@keith moore During my m2 training we used both methods just to show the difference. A well drilled shooter spared seconds not opening the top cover.

If you open the cover you might just as well lift the delinker arm up and load the belt all the way in, then you only have to rack it once to chamber a round. Many ways to skin a cat, and all that. If we're nitpicking, I was trained to keep a little bit of tension on the charging handle while checking headspace. Reason for this is to take out any slack so you're not fooled by the recoil spring pushing the bolt forward, and also so you don't need to apply force on the gage like he did. With the method shown, one must push down on the headspace gage hard enough to overcome the recoil spring tension to take out any slack in the locking mechanism. Over time, doing that with a hardened steel gage can wear a groove into the breech face. By pulling back on the handle a bit, you take the slack out manually so there's no need to apply that much force on the gage.

@keith moore Easier? If you remove the first link in the belt, loading is as easy as breathing. With the first link removed you can push the round into a locked position so much faster. And ofcourse reload speed matters. No one is gonna connect your belts together when you are the roof gunner of the vehicle. And every second wasted on reloading is a second not able to suppress or engage the enemy.

@@kerrafox11 if you're not traveling with the belt in the gun outside the wire, you're doing it wrong.

"Number 1 gun...1500m...vehicle slightly right of crossroad" "SEEN....GUN ON!" "Three rounds...fire" "Up two...fire" "GUN ON!......Traverse left to right by twos....FIRE" Oh....ya....the original "Should your erection lasts more than 4 hours...see a doctor"

Calling it "semiautomatic" is a bit incorrect. It's actually just single shot. Every time you shoot, it fires once and the bolt locks to the rear. So you have to hit the bolt release each time to chamber the next round. Imagine if you were shooting an M4, and every time you shot, the bolt would lock and you had to hit the bolt release to chamber the next round. Really only useful at targets at or past 1500m while using a thermal optic.

not much recoil as the tripod mounts pretty much translate that into barrel wobble

I’d like to have seen them firing into a junk car or something, to see the damage it can inflict.

@@Grabbagar670 Gunny Hathcock approved

@@travistucker1033 Indeed.

The guns will typically retain timing once it's been done once. If you're using a gun you haven't previously set up it's good to do the full check with the timing nut, but normally if you have a gun you're using a lot you can get away with just checking timing with the go/no go without touching the nut, and then doing headspace.

The latest iteration of the M2 that is currently in use no longer requires either.

It does still require gauging by the armorer at set intervals, but yeah deleting it from the user level was a nice touch.

In the Navy, they had us check it, but they never told us about the wheel to fix it. We just called for a gunner's mate if it didn't work.

@@catpatchtactics or if you accidentally adjust it during disassembly or reassembly

Same here! It was a thrill to send red golf balls down range on blue water...Love is a belt fed weapon!

Candidate, you have 3 minutes to clear, disassemble, reassemble and functions check the M2 in sequence, confirm zeros on the clock... time starts when you touch the weapon system. *Me going over the right head space click during reassembly, gazing up at the timer "fuck" #No-Go

You know it’s a good day when you’re firing a full auto .50 cal.

At school

I still remember it too and I was a Corpsman, but I jumped at every chance to get behind a M2. There's just something comforting about being behind one.

No don’t tell them you are way out of line!

what how

I hate temporal mechanics, they never show up on time.

@@derekbowbrick6233 we’re trying our best here but the current situation makes things very difficult for us.

@@derekbowbrick6233 *Slowclap.gif* Well played sir, well played.

I have to give Ians sound recording gear a lot of credit. You can almost feel the slap in the chest you would get being near this getting fired.

Naw. The audio was better than most, but If you have ever been a first hand witness to the firing of a Ma Deuce, nothing will ever replicate the feeling of the concussion you will fell throughout your body. It is truly a moving experience.

Hey Ash, I had noticed that microphones fail to record the bang of a .50 in much the same way they crap out with artillery, I wonder if that means anything.😁🏴‍☠️

Slightly different variation called the AN/M2 was fitted to aircraft, so it's not like they stuck ground-type M2's into planes.

@@kylebrady969 No, I think they had eight, .50 caliber machine guns EXACTLY LIKE IN THIS VIDEO with tripods, plus eight individual dudes sitting on the wings firing them.

@@widehotep9257 sounds pretty badass bro ngl

Marines. (They don't like to be called soldiers.)

@@JayKayKay7 yeah i guess especially Marines. But I've noticed that whenever a highly trained soldier handles something with his hands it's always very fast and deliberate.

@@linusdn2777 Muscle memory.

@@linusdn2777 In the dark, blindfolded, in the rain with the DI screaming in your ear and simulated pyrotechnics going off.

....or under real fire in the desert when your life depends on your weapon functioning correctly. Kudos to all of them and God bless.

Those aerial .50s also fired at a cyclic rate of like 900 rpm, ridiculous tbh

@@RhodokTribesman And you only had 3400 rounds between 8 of them. Less than 30s of firing time for the entire sortie. Better than many aircraft, but that's still an awfully limited ammunition supply.

@@TheAttacker732 Have you ever flown warbirds in sims? American planes have some of the beat ammo duration in the war due to having a single cartridge instead of fitting 20mm cannons and drums. Spits, 109s, and A6M2s run out of ammo shockingly quick, leaving you with only like 2 .30 caliber guns

The gun is accurate but that high mount is not. If they had shot it directly from the tripod instead of the high anti aircraft mount it would surely have been stable enough for longer range precision.

Honestly, after standing next to a P47 in person I wouldn't be worried at all... that plane deceptively huge when side by side with comparatively svelt small planes like the P51!

Check out Greg's Airplanes, on RU-vid for all there is to know about the "Jug".

M2s are mighty, but I dare say the P-47's wing is mightier still. It's a very strong plane.

The P47 is an absolute beast of a plane. She’s not built to win beauty contests, she was built to shred. Sort of a prehistoric A10.

@@scottdrone-silvers5179 It was the premier ground attack light aircraft in its time.