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The M240 machine gun, officially the Machine Gun, 7.62 mm, M240, is the U.S. military designation for the FN MAG, [6] a family of belt-fed, gas-operated medium machine guns that chamber the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. [1] The M240 has been used by the United States Armed Forces since the late 1970s.
M240B – 7.62×51mm medium machine gun used by infantry, and light vehicles and helicopters. Mk48 Mod 1 – 7.62×51mm light machine gun, used by US MARSOC. M249E4 – 5.56×45mm light machine gun, infantry support weapon. Not replaced, but being supplanted by the M27 IAR.
The FN MAG (French: Mitrailleuse d'Appui Général, English: General Purpose Machine Gun) is a Belgian 7.62 mm general-purpose machine gun, designed in the early 1950s at Fabrique Nationale (FN) by Ernest Vervier.
The CROWS system provides an operator with the ability to acquire and engage targets while inside a vehicle, protected by its armor. It is designed to mount on a variety of vehicle platforms and supports the Mk 19 grenade launcher, 12.7 mm M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun, 7.62 mm M240B Machine Gun, and 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon. The system ...
In January 1994, the U.S. Army began the Medium Machine Gun Upgrade Kit program. The only two competitors were M60 and M240 versions. Saco offered an "enhanced" M60E3 with improved parts, and FN offered the M240 variant of its MAG; both weapons were upgrade kits of weapons already in service. Eighteen guns of each were tested until December 1995.
For example, the US Army and Marines now use the FN MAG (as the M240 machine gun), which is generally called the "M240 medium machine gun". It was originally adopted for vehicle mounting in the late 1970s, but its higher reliability resulted in the infantry adopting it for use over the M60 machine gun , despite it being several pounds heavier.
Each boat has an armament of five FN M240 7.62 mm (0.300 in) medium machine guns, and is powered by three 300 hp (220 kW) outboard engines. [ 1 ] Officially classified as "shallow water interceptors" and operated by the Highway Patrol Marine Unit, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] the boats of the class are named after officers of the Texas Highway Patrol who were ...
M145 Machine Gun Optic fitted to a M240B machine gun. The M145 Machine Gun Optic is a variant of the C79 that was developed for the U.S. Army and is commonly mounted on M240 and M249 machine guns. The M145 is unusual when compared with other optical sights in use with the United States military in that ballistic compensation is in the mount ...