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  2. List of submachine guns - Wikipedia

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    SMG Arsenal submachine gun: Arsenal: 9×20 mm SR Browning Estonia: 1926 SMG ASALT 96: Uzina Mecanică Sadu 9×19mm Parabellum Romania: 1996 SMG ASMI: Lokesh Machines Limited 9×19mm Parabellum India: 2021-present SMG Austen submachine gun: Diecasters W. T. Carmichael 9×19mm Parabellum Australia: 1942 SMG Bechowiec-1: Bataliony Chłopskie: 9× ...

  3. Light machine gun - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. Submachine gun - Wikipedia

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    A Mini Uzi and a Heckler & Koch MP5K, two common submachine guns. A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges.The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, [1] to describe its design concept as an automatic firearm with notably less firepower than a machine gun (hence the prefix "sub-").

  5. Heckler & Koch MP5 - Wikipedia

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    Uniquely, the SMG II had a gas cylinder in the handguard with a gas relief valve on the receiver, used to control round velocity and thus also sound: the "L" setting reduced the propellant gases to fire rounds below the speed of sound—and thus without the usual crack of supersonic projectiles—for almost silent suppressed fire, while the "H ...

  6. Squad automatic weapon - Wikipedia

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    The L85 IW (Individual Weapon) was the rifle version and was designed to replace the 9mm L2 Sterling SMG and 7.62mm L1A1 SLR Rifle. The L86 LSW (Light Support Weapon) was the automatic rifle version and was intended to replace the L4 BREN gun and supplement the FN MAG general-purpose machine gun, replacing it at section level. Teething problems ...

  7. M249 light machine gun - Wikipedia

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    [15] [16] The Stoner 63 LMG saw combat for a brief period in Vietnam with the Marine Corps, and later on a wider scale with the U.S. Navy SEALs. [ 16 ] In 1968, the Army Small Arms Program developed plans for a new 5.56 mm caliber LMG, though no funds were allocated (5.56 mm ammunition was viewed as underpowered by many in the armed forces.)

  8. General-purpose machine gun - Wikipedia

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    The MG-42 type general-purpose machine guns in both bipod and tripod configurations. The tall tripod on the right is for anti-aircraft use. A general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) is an air-cooled, usually belt-fed machine gun that can be adapted flexibly to various tactical roles for light and medium machine guns. [1]

  9. Secure copy protocol - Wikipedia

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    The SCP program [8] is a software tool implementing the SCP protocol as a service daemon or client. It is a program to perform secure copying. Perhaps the most widely used SCP program is the OpenSSH command line scp program, which is provided in most SSH implementations. The scp program is the secure analog of the rcp command.