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[14] [15] The Bundeswehr trains soldiers to replace the barrel of the MG3 after 150 live rounds (or 100 blank rounds) after sustained heavy fire, with a new, cooler one; only once the barrel is hand-warm (able to be held with the bare hand for 30 seconds) can a barrel be reused. Beneficially however, replacing the barrel is an exceptionally ...
In a stationary, heavy machine gun role the MG5 can also be mounted on the MG3 Feldlafette buffered field tripod by using additional adapters. The Bundeswehr use a RAL 8000 green brown surface finish on their MG5s and has chosen to use a 550 mm (21.7 in) barrel instead of a 663 mm (26.1 in) barrel for their mounted guns to promote parts uniformity.
Rheinmetall MG3 West Germany: General-purpose machine gun: 7.62×51mm NATO [37] The MG3 is a further development of the MG42 from the Second World War and is still used in the Bundeswehr today. Since production already ended in the 1970s, it is currently planned to have several thousand new cases milled.
MG 42 based MG3 in 7.62×51mm NATO Jagdpanzer IV prototype with 2 opened front facing firing ports next to the main gun. The MG 42 is a 7.92×57mm Mauser, air-cooled, belt fed, open bolt, recoil-operated machine gun with a quick change barrel.
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The RMG 7.62 is a development of the MG3, intended as a vehicle mounted weapon where changing the overheated barrel would be a problem.Like the MG3, it is a recoil operated weapon that fires at about 800rpm and uses the belt feed from the MG3.
heavy machine gun. M2 Heavy Barrel 392 Standard equipment for American Abrams family military vehicles. Used on 250 M1 A2 Abrams (SEPv3), 116 M1A1 (FEP) and 26 M88A2 recovery vehicles. [50] M134 Minigun United States: 7.62×51mm NATO. heavy machine gun. M134G 10 [51] Mounted on Mi-17-1W helicopters as an on-board weapon [51] DShK Soviet Union
The latter company already had ties to CETME, and had worked to further optimize the CETME rifle for use with the full-power 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge (as opposed to the downgraded CETME variant). In 1969, Rheinmetall gave up production rights to the G3 in exchange for Heckler & Koch's promise not to bid on MG 3 machine gun production. Later in ...