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Colleoni machine gun — 6.50×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano: Ammunition belt Italy: 1908 Colt Machine Gun: Colt's Manufacturing Company — 5.56×45mm NATO: Ammunition belt United States: 1965 Colt Automatic Rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: Detachable box magazine United States: 1982 Darne machine gun: Hotchkiss et Cie: 7.50×54mm French 8.00×51mmR French ...
A vehicle with a Sumitomo M2 heavy machine gun mounted at the rear. Unlike semi-automatic firearms, which require one trigger pull per round fired, a machine gun is designed to continue firing for as long as the trigger is held down. [1] Nowadays, the term is restricted to relatively heavy crew-served weapons, able to provide continuous or ...
Heckler & Koch MG5. The Heckler & Koch MG5 (in the development phase also known as the HK121) is a belt-fed 7.62×51mm NATO general-purpose machine gun manufactured by German firearm manufacturer Heckler & Koch . The MG5 resembles the 5.56×45mm NATO Heckler & Koch MG4 light machine gun, which was adopted into German military service in 2015.
M60 machine gun. M73 machine gun. M85 machine gun. M134 Minigun. M240 machine gun. M242 Bushmaster. M249 light machine gun. M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun. M1917 Browning machine gun.
Ots-27 ( 9×18mm Makarov) OTs-27-2 ( 9×19mm Parabellum) Ots-27-7 ( 7.62×25mm Tokarev ) Russia. OTs-33 Pernach. 9×18mm Makarov. 1996-present designed to replace the Stechkin APS in various special OMON units, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and other paramilitary units.
A machine pistol is an autoloading pistol that is capable of fully automatic fire, including stockless handgun -style submachine guns. [1] The Austrians introduced the world's first machine pistol, the Steyr Repetierpistole M1912/P16, during World War I. The Germans also experimented with machine pistols, by converting various types of semi ...
Type 89 machine gun: 7.7×58mm Arisaka Japan: 1929 Type 100 machine gun: 7.92×57mm Japan: 1940 XM214 Microgun: General Electric General Dynamics: 5.56×45mm NATO United States: 1966 WLKM 12,7: Zakłady Mechaniczne Tarnów.50 BMG Poland: 2010s Yak-B 12.7mm machine gun: KBP Instrument Design Bureau: 12.7×108mm Soviet Union: 1973
The modern definition refers to "heavy caliber" machine guns, pioneered by the German Empire 's MG 18 TuF which was a Maxim derivative chambered in 13.2×92mmSR fielded near the end of World War I. They are designed to provide increased effective range, penetration and stopping power against vehicles, aircraft and light fortifications beyond ...