.50 BMG aka 
.50 Browning Machine Gun is a caliber invented for the 
M2 machine gun that is now used in high powered 
sniper rifles. Its metric dimension is 12.7mm x 99mm.
Ammunition exists in a wide variety of ball, armor piercing rounds, tracer rounds and other kind.
 
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