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  2. United States Army Armor School - Wikipedia

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    ** advanced universal gunnery methodologies, ** gunnery training with a focus on vehicle mounted machine gun weapons systems, ** planning and implementation of gunnery training programs. MGCC is taught in 27 days in four modules: [16] Direct fire and weapons training; Ammunition and ballistics; Gunnery training management; Unit training plan

  3. Gun harmonisation - Wikipedia

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    The North American F-86 Sabre, a 1947 jet fighter-bomber design used by US forces in the Korean War, was equipped with six .50 cal machine guns, three mounted on each side of the nose, the two sides spaced approximately 4 ft (1.2 m) apart. These guns were harmonised to converge at 1,200 ft (370 m). [28]

  4. CROWS - Wikipedia

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    It is designed to mount on a variety of vehicle platforms and supports the Mk 19 grenade launcher, 12.7 mm M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun, 7.62 mm M240B Machine Gun, and 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon. The system is composed of two parts: the mount which is fixed to the exterior of the vehicle and the control group.

  5. List of equipment of the United States Army - Wikipedia

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    In use [16] M1014: 12-gauge: Semi-automatic shotgun Italy: In use [17] [18] [19] Machine guns; XM250: 6.8x51mm: Light machine gun United States: Future light machine gun, winner of the NGSW program in April 2022. [8] M249: 5.56×45mm NATO: Light machine gun, Squad automatic weapon Belgium United States: Belt-fed, but can be used with STANAG ...

  6. List of crew-served weapons of the U.S. Armed Forces

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    This list contains weapons that are classified as crew-served, as the term is used in the United States military.. While the general understanding is that crew-served weapons require more than one person to operate them, there are important exceptions in the case of both squad automatic weapons (SAW) and sniper rifles.

  7. U.S. helicopter armament subsystems - Wikipedia

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    The M27 system provides a mount for one M134 7.62×51mm machine gun (Minigun) for either the OH-6 or OH-58 light observation helicopters. The system is provided with an XM70/E1 sight and a MAU-56/A delinking feeder with 2000 rounds of ammunition. [ 53 ]

  8. Weapon mount - Wikipedia

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    Maxim gun mount type PS-31 from pillbox No. 186 of the Kiev Fortified Region. The mount includes elements of the machine gun cooling system. A swing mount is a fixed mount that allows a far greater and more flexible arc of fire than the simple pintle mount system. Utilising a system of one or two articulated arms the gunner can swing the weapon ...

  9. Medium machine gun - Wikipedia

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    A medium machine gun (MMG), in modern terms, usually refers to a belt-fed machine gun firing a full-powered rifle cartridge, and is considered "medium" in weight (15–40 lb or 6.8–18.1 kg). [1] [2] Medium machine guns are light enough to be infantry-portable (as opposed to a heavy machine gun, which completely relies on mounting onto a ...