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We are lucky .50 BMG is even considered a light AA round, let alone a caliber that will probably make it into space. During the interwar period in the United States the Army for some reason I can't remember went with that and so we ended up having a .50 mount on every Sherman turret and any other ground vehicle that could fit a ring mount for one.Isn't 416 Barrett better than 50 BMG? 50 BMG is browning machine gun, repurposed for sniper rifles, whereas 416 was designed from the ground up for it, and also to bypass California's gay-ass 50 BMG ban.
Incidentally dive bombers did not like trying to engage formations that had massed angry tracers coming up at them.
The US is the only power of the WW2 era to go for .50 cal instead of 20mm as the lowest caliber AA.