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Originally Posted by ericthered
Those are machine guns, and they lighter of the two weighs over 90 lbs. I'd hesitate to call either "low-powered cannon" or to use them as a useful basline for the range of a projectile launched from a 1.5 lb weapons system.
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You might hesitate, but it's absolutely correct for the MG 151/20. The M242 seems like a stretch with 1100 m/s muzzle velocity.
However, you're quite right that 'low-powered cannon' does still mean a lot higher velocity than you'd expect to get from a short underbarrel device.