This question was prompted by the news of PM Thatcher's death and remarks about her decision to retake the Falkland Islands.

There are several famous photos of Britishicon troops trudging their way from the beachhead towards battle. There are some showing 7.62 GPMGs positioned as local air defence on the beachhead. Then somewhere, maybe the Osprey book summarizing the campaign had shots of .50 Brownings in UK service. The caption suggested these were found in stores and rapidly issued to troops as the ship armada was being loaded. For whatever reason, I'd never thought much of British use of .50s then or now. Some of those Falklands memories came back listening to stories about the PM of the day.

The question to the collective wisdom is, how many .50cal Brownings would the British Army (or Royal Marines?) have held in 1982? What doctrine would they be using? Are these guns still in service?
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