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PK machine gun: General-purpose machine gun Soviet Union: Inherited from the Soviet-Afghan War. RPD: Light machine gun Soviet Union: Inherited from the Soviet-Afghan War and Afghan Civil War. M2 Browning: Heavy machine gun United States: Provided by the United States. M134 Minigun: Rotary medium machine gun United States: Provided by the United ...
Light machine gun [4] RPK Soviet Union: Light machine gun [4] M240 United States: General-purpose machine gun: Captured from the former Afghan National Army. [7] PK Soviet Union: General-purpose machine gun: The PKM variant also used. [4] Zastava M84 Yugoslavia: General-purpose machine gun: Captured from the former Afghan National Army. [3] M2 ...
A 19th Special Forces Group soldier mans an M60 machine gun on a Humvee in Afghanistan in March 2004. An AT4 anti-armor recoilless gun can be seen in the foreground. In January 1994, the U.S. Army began the Medium Machine Gun Upgrade Kit program. The only two competitors were M60 and M240 versions. Saco offered an "enhanced" M60E3 with improved ...
The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War. p. 177. My force was armed with individual automatic rifles (AK-47), light machine guns (RPK), heavy machine guns (PK), light anti-tank grenade launchers (RPG-7), Milan anti-tank missile launchers, 82mm recoilless rifles, 75mm recoilless rifles, 82mm mortars, 107mm ...
The Afghan Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Pashto: د اسلامي امارت وسله وال ځواکونه, Dari: نیروهای مسلح امارت اسلامی افغانستان) [3] and also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Armed Forces, is the military of Afghanistan, commanded by the Taliban government from 1997 to 2001 and since ...
The IWI Negev (also known as the Negev NG-5) is a 5.56×45mm NATO light machine gun developed by Israel Weapon Industries (IWI), formerly Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI). In 2012, IWI introduced the Negev NG-7, which is chambered in 7.62×51mm NATO. The NG stands for Next Generation. Both variants of the Negev are in service with the ...
The Islamic National Army (Pashto: اسلامي ملي اردو, Islāmī Milli Urdu), [2][3][4] also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Army and the Afghan Army, is the land force branch of the Afghan Armed Forces. The roots of an army in Afghanistan can be traced back to the early 18th century when the Hotak dynasty was established in ...
The M240 machine gun, officially the Machine Gun, 7.62 mm, M240, is the U.S. military designation for the FN MAG, [6] a family of belt-fed, gas-operated medium machine guns that chamber the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. [1] The M240 has been used by the United States Armed Forces since the late 1970s.