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M2 Browning .5 Heavy Machine Gun (HMG) United States Belgium: Heavy machine gun: 12.7×99mm NATO (.50 BMG) The M2 Heavy Machine Gun entered service in the 1970s. It is in use with all service branches and a number of Army Corps. The Infantry use it in the sustained fire role, air defense role and mounted on its MOWAG APCs.
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 ...
An autocannon, automatic cannon or machine cannon is a fully automatic gun that is capable of rapid-firing large-caliber (20 mm/0.79 in or more) armour-piercing, explosive or incendiary shells, as opposed to the smaller-caliber kinetic projectiles fired by a machine gun.
Medium machine gun United Kingdom: Four Besa machine guns found in IRA arms dump outside Kildare in January 1990. [78] [79] Bren gun.303 British: Light machine gun United Kingdom: Widespread usage in 1970s. [5] Still in IRA arsenal as of 2005, according to IICD chairman General John de Chastelain. [80] M1919 Browning.30-06 Springfield: Medium ...
Throughout the protracted conflict in Northern Ireland (1960s-1998), the Provisional IRA developed a series of improvised mortars to attack British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) security bases. [1] The organisation also purchased both light and heavy machine guns in order to hamper the British Army supply of border bases by ...
In 1989 the 16 AML 60-7 CS armoured cars' twin 7.62 mm machine guns were replaced with a single M2 Browning .5 machine gun each. In 1999 the 16 AML 60-7 CS armoured cars turrets were rearmed with a G12 20 mm cannon and a co-axial FN MAG 7.62mm machine gun. It was known as the AML 20. [30] [32]
Autocannons are automatic guns with calibers of 20 millimeters (0.79 in) to 60 millimeters (2.4 in). There are many types, including chain guns, gast guns, revolver cannons, and rotary cannons.
In June 1883 Hiram Maxim filed his first patent to do with automatic firearms covering semi-automatic and fully automatic Winchester and Martini-Henry rifles as well as an original automatic rifle and blowback- and recoil-operated machine guns, both single and multi-barrelled. [1]