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Ukrainian soldier with a 12.7 mm large-caliber DShKM-TK machine gun. (imgur.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I could kill a building with this thing"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You could. This type of gun is not intended primarily for use against people (although this particular gun might be modified to serve the role of a sniper rifle). It's for shooting aircraft and lightly armored vehicles. By that I don't mean cars; I mean armored personnel carriers. The bullets would go right through a building's walls.

I can't quickly find a photo of this gun's 12.7 mm bullet doing its thing, but here's what the very similar American 50 cal bullet does to six-inch-thick concrete: