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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.
Light machine gun: 5.56×45mm NATO: Minimi: 402 units acquired. Additional order cancelled in favor of rebidding, which was later won by Daewoo Precision Industries' K3. [128] [129] Arsenal MG Bulgaria: General-purpose machine gun: 7.62×51mm NATO: MG-M2: Manufactured by Arsenal JSCo. of Bulgaria, based on Russian PK machine gun but using 7.62 ...
Vehicle-mounted M2 .50 caliber machine guns in May 2005. M2HB – heavy machine gun chambered in .50 BMG used primarily on vehicles. 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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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.