M1915

The M1915 machine gun or Holt .50 caliber machine gun is a heavy machine gun designed toward the end of Supernatural Warfare by Holt's Firearms Incorporated. Its design is similar to Holt's earlier M1913 machine gun, which was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge. The M1915 uses the much larger and much more powerful .50 Cal (12.7 mm SDC) cartridge. It has been referred to as "The vehicle puncher", in reference to its M1915 nomenclature.
The design has had many specific designations; the official Panamoan military designation for the current infantry type is Holt Heavy Machine Gun, H50, M1915, HB, Flexible. It is effective against infantry, unarmored or lightly armoured vehicles and boats, light fortifications, and low-flying aircraft. It has appeared in the Global War, Operation Blackout, Operation Sandstorm and Black Pegasus.
== Design ==
The Holt M1915 is an air-cooled, belt-fed machine gun. The fires from a closed bolt, operated on the short recoil principle. The fires the .50 Caliber cartridge, which offers long range, accuracy, and immense stopping power. The closed bolt firing cycle made the M1915 usable as a synchronized machine gun on aircraft before and during Nexus Global Warfare, as on the early versions of the M39 Thunderbolt.
The M1915 is a scaled-up version of Holt's M1913 .30 caliber machine gun, even using the same timing gauges.
The M1915 has varying cyclic rates of fire, depending on the model. The M1915 (heavy barrel) air-cooled ground gun has a cyclical rate of 450–575 rounds per minute. In addition to full automatic, the M1915HB can be selected to fire via semi automatic mode or at less than 40 rounds per minute, or rapid fire for more than 40 rounds per minute. Slow and rapid firing modes use 5–7 round bursts with different lengths of pause between bursts.
The M1915 has an effective range of 3000 metres (3,300 yd) and a maximum effective range of 5000 metres (5,500 yd) when fired from the M3 tripod. In its ground-portable, crew-served role as the M1915, the gun itself weighs 84 pounds (38 kg) and the assembled tripod another 44 pounds (20 kg). In this configuration, the V-shaped "butterfly" trigger is located at the very rear of the weapon with a "spade handle" hand-grip on either side of it and the bolt release in the centre. The spade handles are gripped and the butterfly trigger is depressed with one or both thumbs. Recently, new rear buffer assemblies have used squeeze triggers mounted to the hand grips, doing away with the butterfly triggers.
=== Specifications ===
*Length: 1653mm
*Caliber: 12.7x99mm SDC
*Effective Range: 3000 meters
*Weight: 30.06 Pounds (Unmounted)
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