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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.
South Vietnamese soldier with a M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle M60 machine gun – standard General-purpose machine gun for US, ANZAC, and ARVN forces throughout the war. [53] US Marine fires his M60 machine gun at an enemy position during the Battle of Huế. Colt Machine Gun – experimental light machine gun deployed by SEAL Team 2 in 1970. [34]
A U.S. Army Vietnam-era "free gunner" (c. 1966) is shown manning his duty position on a UH-1B/C helicopter gunship, with a bungee cord securing his M60 machine gun to the aircraft cabin doorway. The concept of the door gunner originated during the Vietnam War, when helicopters were first used in combat in large numbers.
Armament: 100mm 2A70 rifled main gun, 30mm 2A72 coaxial machine gun, 7.62mm PKT coaxial machine gun, ... M60 (Patton) ©M60 Patton 'Patton ... ©deyanarobova / iStock via Getty Images. Total units ...
The main gun is the rifled 105 mm/L52 M68A1E2 with a thermal sleeve. The 7.62 mm M73 coaxial machine gun used on the M60A1 was replaced with a 7.62 mm M240C, with the same number of rounds. The M19 cupola was replaced with a low silhouette model with a pop-up hatch for the commander and a 12.7 mm M2HB machine gun on a pintle mount with 600 ...
The genius of the legendary small arms and machine gun designer John Browning (1855-1926) is illustrated by the fact that three of his weapons are still used today (in their modern variants), more ...
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 ...
The M60 was the last U.S. main battle tank to utilize homogeneous steel armor for protection. It was also the last to feature either the M60 machine gun or an escape hatch under the hull. Originally designated the M68, the new vehicle was put into production in 1959, reclassified as the M60, and entered service in 1960.