Comments by "Ember Fist" (@emberfist8347) on "Ask Ian: Why No German WW2 50-Cal Machine Guns? (feat. Nick Moran)" video.

Doesn't mean they could make a ground mounted hmg like the M2. 12.7mm machine guns were the arsenal of Japan and the Soviet Union who used metric units.
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@olslimy6428 Well the actual reasons was that AA machine guns fell out of favor soon after World War II began when aircraft started being armored. Germany was also surprisingly for the logistical nightmare they had everywhere else trying to standardize on certain calibers and cannon designs. For example, the 37mm aircraft cannons were the same ones they used for the AA role and on their Panzer IIIs. Only the US was still using a machine gun armed SPAA in Europe from 1943 on as everyone switched to autocannons or bigger. They were lucky by the time we landed men in Normandy the Luftwaffe was a bookkeeping organization with no real aircraft to fly.
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