Ukrainian soldier with a 12.7 mm large-caliber DShKM-TK machine gun.

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Ukrainian soldier with a 12.7 mm large-caliber DShKM-TK machine gun. - Sopuli

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“I could kill a building with this thing”

You could. This type of gun is not intended for use against people (although this particular gun might be modified to serve the role of a sniper rifle). It’s for shooting lightly armored vehicles (and by that I don’t mean cars; I mean armored personnel carriers) and the bullets would go through a thick cement wall if shot at a building.

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: