The M60 was designed to replace the existing U.S. squad automatics (the 1918A2 Browning Automatic Rifle and the air-cooled Browning .30-cal. M1919A6 machine gun), along with the air-cooled ...

The M60 is one of ... belt-fed light machine guns in its caliber, weighing only 9.35 kg. H&K’s competing MG5, said to be the runner-up in the trials, weighs 11.60 kg. Does this mean that the ...

50-cal machine gun designed to better enable Soldiers ... Army officials said. This made a 60 pound version of the current 86 pound weapon. The machine gun is currently used on Humvees, tactical ...

Nevertheless, it is remembered as the machine gun that troops lovingly referred to as “the Pig” in recognition for its stout 23 lbs. mass. The weight of the gun notwithstanding, the M60 wrote ...

The M60 remained an infantry mainstay ... Since the United States adopted the gas-operated .30-03-caliber Maxim Model 1904 gas-operated machine gun, that gun’s 62 pounds, combined with an ...

Either way, the M60 has come ... belt-fed light machine guns in its caliber, weighing only 9.35 kg. H&K’s competing MG5, said to be the runner-up in the trials, weighs 11.60 kg.

Secondary armament included a .50 caliber M85 machine gun and a 7.62mm M73 machine gun, later replaced by the M240. The M60 Patton entered service with the U.S. Army in 1960 and quickly became the ...

The indictment describes the firearms as fully automatic weapons not legally available to the public, including an M60 machine gun, a belt-fed weapon widely used by the U.S. military since the ...