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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 .
It is officially classified as an LWMG (Light Weight Machine Gun) and was developed as a replacement for the Mk 43 Mod 0/1, itself a variant of the M60 machine gun. Reliability issues with the M60 and its design variants led the US Army to replace it with the M240B in the mid-1990s. The M240B, however, weighs in at a considerable 27.5 lb (12.5 ...
Type 96 light machine gun: Kokura Arsenal Nagoya Arsenal Mukden: 6.50×50mm Arisaka: Detachable box magazine Japan: 1936 Type 97 light machine gun: 7.70×58mm Arisaka: Detachable box magazine Japan: 1937 Type 97 aircraft machine gun: 7.70x56mmR Type 87: Ammunition belt Japan: 1937 Type 99 light machine gun: Kokura Arsenal Nagoya Arsenal: 7.70× ...
The Type 96 light machine gun (九六式軽機関銃, Kyūroku-shiki Kei-kikanjū) was a light machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the interwar period and in World War II. [3] It was first introduced in 1936, and fires the 6.5×50mm Arisaka from 30-round top-mounted magazines.
T75 light machine gun; TADEN gun; Type 11 light machine gun; Type 73 light machine gun; Type 81 assault rifle; Type 89 machine gun; Type 96 light machine gun; Type 97 aircraft machine gun; Type 98/Type 1 machine gun; Type 99 light machine gun
The M1941 Johnson light machine gun was designed by a Boston lawyer and captain in the Marine Corps Reserve named Melvin Johnson Jr. His goal was to build a semi-automatic rifle that would outperform the M1 Garand the US Army had adopted. By late 1937, he had designed, built, and successfully tested both a semi-automatic rifle and a prototype ...
The LAMG was intended to be lightweight but reliable. It is an open bolt, belt-fed, gas operated, air-cooled light machine gun utilizing the Constant Recoil system found on other machine guns such as Ultimax 100, designed by Stoner 63 contributor Jim Sullivan. In this system the bolt carrier group is fully decelerated by the return spring ...
The Type 11 light machine gun (十一年式軽機関銃, Jyūichinen-shiki Kei-kikanjū) was a light machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the interwar period and during World War II. [3] Adopted as the Imperial Japanese Army's first light machine gun, the Type 11 was designed by Kijirō Nambu and had certain similarities to the ...