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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.
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 ...
U.S. Ordnance–Defense Systems and Manufacturing, often called USORD, is a firearms manufacturer in McCarran, Nevada, 20 minutes outside Reno. Since 1997, [2] the Nevada corporation has designed, developed, and manufactured military small arms, machine guns, and replacement parts. U.S. Ordnance specializes in producing versions of the mature ...
Disintegrating M13 belt [ 4 ] S&T Motiv K16, formerly known as S&T Motiv K12, is a 7.62×51mm NATO general-purpose machine gun manufactured by S&T Motiv to replace the M60 machine gun for the Republic of Korea Armed Forces. [ 5 ] The XK12 was first shown to the public in 2009, during the Seoul ADEX International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition.
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 Mk 48 Mod 0 is a gas-operated, air-cooled, fully automatic belt-fed machine gun. The design is based on an early 7.62×51mm NATO prototype of the FN Minimi, modified to be a scaled-up version of the 5.56 mm Mk 46 Mod 0. Being heavily based on the Mk 46 Mod 0, the Mk 48 Mod 0 features five MIL-STD-1913 Picatinny rails (one on top of the ...
Standard general purpose machine gun. Several M60E3 being converted by Government Arsenal to M60E4 standard. M1919 Browning machine gun United States: Medium machine gun.30-06 Springfield: M1919A1: Replaced by M60 machine gun in front line use, relegated for use on vehicles, base defense and security units, and CAFGU units. M2 Browning United ...
Machine gun; M249: Light machine gun: 5.56×45mm NATO United States: Used by Royal Thai Army Special Forces. [25] Daewoo K3: Light machine gun: 5.56×45mm NATO South Korea: 2 K3s transferred according to a 2019 SIPRI small arms report. [7] Ultimax 100: Light machine gun: 5.56×45mm NATO Singapore [26] IMI Negev: Light machine gun: 5.56×45mm ...