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The M60, officially the Machine Gun, Caliber 7.62 mm, M60, is a family of American general-purpose machine guns firing 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges from a disintegrating belt of M13 links. There are several types of ammunition approved for use in the M60, including ball , tracer , and armor-piercing rounds.
Submachine gun: Used by Jordanian Special Operations Forces. [12] Machine guns Heckler & Koch HK21 Germany: 7.62×51mm NATO: General purpose medium machine gun: HK21A1 variant. [17] M60 machine gun United States: 7.62×51mm NATO: General purpose medium machine gun [4] M240 machine gun United States: 7.62×51mm NATO: General purpose medium ...
General-purpose machine gun Belgium: Used by infantry as general-purpose machine gun and by Tunisian Air Force mounted on helicopters. M60: 7.62×51mm NATO: General-purpose machine gun United States: Standard general-purpose machine gun. Variants include M60E6. MG 3: 7.62×51mm NATO: General-purpose machine gun West Germany: M2 Browning: 12.7× ...
Colleoni machine gun — 6.50×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano: Ammunition belt Italy: 1908 Colt Machine Gun: Colt's Manufacturing Company: 5.56×45mm NATO: Ammunition belt United States: 1965 Colt Automatic Rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: Detachable box magazine United States: 1982 Darne machine gun: Hotchkiss et Cie: 7.50×54mm French 8.00×51mmR French ...
The MG-42 type general-purpose machine guns in both bipod and tripod configurations. The tall tripod on the right is for anti-aircraft use. A general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) is an air-cooled, usually belt-fed machine gun that can be adapted flexibly to various tactical roles for light and medium machine guns. [1]
Described as a system of four forward firing M60 machine guns similar to the later M6 series for the UH-1 helicopter. Not standardized. [3] Offensive Armament; Experiments were done using CH-21s with both fixed forward M2HB.50 caliber machine guns and forward firing rocket launchers. Neither system was standardized, but both paved the way for ...
For the majority of the Vietnam War, the principal weapon of the door gunner was a medium machine gun (MG), initially, a M1919A4 .30 caliber MG, and soon thereafter, the M60 7.62mm MG became the standard helicopter door armament system. Initially however not all helicopters were armed or outfitted with a dedicated MG for door armament.
The M60-based machine guns are a great deal more portable than the heavier M240-based designs used elsewhere in the U.S. military in the infantry medium machine gun role. The M60-based designs have a long history of insufficient reliability, however. Trials conducted through the mid-1990s led the U.S. Army to replace its M60 with M240B GPMGs.