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Machine Gun
Bottom: FN MAG (general purpose machine gun) M2 machine gun: John Browning's design has been one of the longest-serving and most successful machine gun designs A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire. Automatic firearms of caliber or more are usually classified as autocannons rather than machine guns. As a class of military kinetic projectile weapons, machine guns are designed to be mainly used as infantry support weapons and generally used when attached to a bipod or tripod, a fixed mount or a heavy weapons platform for stability against recoil. Many machine guns also use belt feeding and open bolt operation, features not normally found on other infantry firearms.
Article summary
Bottom: FN MAG (general purpose machine gun) M2 machine gun: John Browning's design has been one of the longest-serving and most successful machine gun designs A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire. Automatic firearms of caliber or more are usually classified as autocannons rather than machine guns. As a class of military kinetic projectile weapons, machine guns are designed to be mainly used as infantry support weapons and generally used when attached to a bipod or tripod, a fixed mount or a heavy weapons platform for stability against recoil. Many machine guns also use belt feeding and open bolt operation, features not normally found on other infantry firearms.
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