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In 1965, the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps' primary machine guns were the M2 Browning and M60. The M2 was a large-caliber heavy machine gun, usually mounted on vehicles or in fixed emplacements. [8] The M60 was a more mobile general-purpose machine gun intended to be carried by troops to provide heavy automatic fire. [9]
Type 96 light machine gun: Kokura Arsenal Nagoya Arsenal Mukden: 6.50×50mm Arisaka: Detachable box magazine Japan: 1936 Type 97 light machine gun: 7.70×58mm Arisaka: Detachable box magazine Japan: 1937 Type 97 aircraft machine gun: 7.70x56mmR Type 87: Ammunition belt Japan: 1937 Type 99 light machine gun: Kokura Arsenal Nagoya Arsenal: 7.70× ...
A light machine gun (LMG) is a light-weight machine gun designed to be operated by a single infantryman, with or without an assistant, as an infantry support weapon. LMGs firing cartridges of the same caliber as the other riflemen of the same combat unit are often referred to as squad automatic weapons .
The LSAT light machine gun is a component of the Lightweight Small Arms Technologies (LSAT) program. The purpose of the program was to develop a lighter, yet highly reliable light machine gun (LMG). The program was initiated in 2004, when the Joint Service Small Arms Program (JSSAP) challenged the American defence industry to develop a lighter ...
RPD / Light Machine Gun 7.62×39mm: 1945–present still used by special forces and militia forces Soviet Union: RPK / Kalashnikov Light Machine Gun 7.62×39mm: 1959–present still used by police and militia forces AKM (assault rifle) S-108(-M), P-55 prototypes RPKS (folding stock) RPK(S)N night scope rail RPK(S)L flash suppressor & night ...
The M1941 Johnson light machine gun was designed by a Boston lawyer and captain in the Marine Corps Reserve named Melvin Johnson Jr. His goal was to build a semi-automatic rifle that would outperform the M1 Garand the US Army had adopted. By late 1937, he had designed, built, and successfully tested both a semi-automatic rifle and a prototype ...
Using a variety of modular components, it can be configured as an assault rifle, carbine, top-fed light machine gun, belt-fed squad automatic weapon, or as a vehicle mounted weapon. [1] Also known as the M63, XM22, XM23, XM207 or the Mk 23 Mod 0 machine gun, it was designed by Eugene Stoner in the early 1960s.
The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States though not adopted there, the design was finalised and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, [ 4 ] and widely used by troops of the British Empire during the war.