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	General purpose machine gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A general purpose machine-gun (GPMG) in concept is a multi-purpose weapon, a machine-gun intended to fill the role of either a light machine-gun or medium machine-gun, while at the same time being man-portable.
		They are generally operated from a stationary prone position from either a bipod or tripod, or mounted on a vehicle, as they are usually too powerful and heavy to be fired effectively on foot from an unsupported standing position or on the move.
		The lighter M249 (firing 5.56 NATO ammunition) is the main U.S. light machine gun/squad automatic weapon, and the M2 machine gun (using the.50 BMG cartridge) is used in the heavy machine gun role.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_purpose_machine_gun (723 words)

	Machine Gun - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Machine guns are known as automatic weapons because they automatically eject spent rounds of ammunition and reload fresh rounds.
		Machine guns, as well as other automatic weapons, work by automatically expelling spent rounds of ammunition and reloading fresh rounds so that constant firing can be maintained.
		Machine guns are grouped into four general categories: light machine guns; general-purpose, or medium, machine guns; heavy machine guns; and externally powered machine guns.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761562087__1/Machine_Gun.html (1896 words)

	L7 (machine gun) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The L7 machine gun general purpose machine gun is used by the British Army.
		It and the related L8 are a licence-built derivative of the Belgian FN MAG (Fabrique Nationale Mitrailleuse d'Appui Generale 1958) machine gun firing the standard 7.62 mm NATO cartridge.
		Because one of the requirements was for heavy supressive fire, something the Vickers machine gun excelled at, a heavy barrel was designed for the gun for this role.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/L7_(machine_gun) (414 words)

	Machine Guns - Maschinengewehre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Machine guns derive their limited armor-penetrating capability both from the single bullet's penetration ability and from the effect the repeated hits of bullets in quick succession - as is the case with a machine gun - onto the same spot have on thin steel plates.
		Development of the german machine guns went towards a general purpose machine gun, therewith abandoning the differentiation hitherto between light machine guns carried around by the assaulting infantry and heavy machine guns that were intended as stationary support weapons.
		With the occupation of czechoslovakia in 1939 the germans captured 31,204 machine guns of the types ZB 1926 and ZB 1930, mostly the latter.
	www.geocities.com /Augusta/8172/panzerfaust5.htm (4863 words)

	HK 21E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		GPMG's are commonly defined as guns that can be used effectively by a lone gunner in the light assault role from the shoulder, assault firing position or from the prone position using a light bipod.
		That sound, and the guns immense capability for suppressive fire both in the defensive role and during the assault, were feared in its day and are still revered in modern times by many who believe the MG42 to be one of the worlds best all-around belt-fed machine guns.
		As is the case in most machine guns fired from the ground, after the second or third shot the gunners view through the sights is obscured by the smoke and dust created from the muzzle blast of the weapon.
	www.remtek.com /arms/hk/mil/21/21.htm (6098 words)

	THE PKM GENERAL PURPOSE MACHINE GUN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The RPD light machine gun firing an intermediate 7.62 x 39 mm M43 round was considered for the GPMG role.
		General purpose machine guns chambered for the 7.62 mm rimmed cartridge are quite scarce.
		In light machine gun configuration, the 100 rd belt with that assault box is usually employed.
	club.guns.ru /eng/pkm.html (3704 words)

	Machine gun Summary
		A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm usually designed to fire a rifle cartridge from an ammunition belt or large-capacity magazine in quick succession, usually at rates of several hundred bullets per minute.
		Although the term "machine gun" is often used to describe all fully-automatic weapons, in military usage the term is restricted to relatively heavy weapons fired from some sort of support rather than hand-held, able to provide continuous or frequent bursts of automatic fire for as long as ammunition lasts.
		The automatic mechanisms of machine guns were applied to handguns, giving rise to automatic pistols (and eventully machine pistols) such as the Borchardt (1890s) and later submachine guns (such as the Beretta 1918).
	www.bookrags.com /Machine_gun (5080 words)

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		In 1965 this machine gun was presented to a museum by Mikhail Kalashnikov as a gift.
		The PK machine gun on bipod is used as a light machine gun and when placed on a mount it is used as a PKS machine gun mount.
		The PK machine gun incorporates an original innovation to prevent rupture of the cartridge case, by replacing the sliding feed mechanism with lever feed mechanism.
	www.milparade.com /kalashnikov/chapter5/05_12.shtml (163 words)

	Armed Forces - a5a14.2 - British Army - The Infantry - 7.62mm General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		An infantry machine gun which has been in service since the early 1960s, the GPMG can be used in the light role fired from a bipod or can be fitted to a tripod for use in the sustained fire role.
		Used on a tripod the gun is effective out to 1,800m although it is difficult to spot strike at this range because the tracer rounds in the ammunition belt burns out at 1,100 m.
		Machine Gun platoons in air assault battalions remain equipped with the GPMG in the sustained fire role.
	www.armedforces.co.uk /army/listings/l0096.html (245 words)

	Type 88 5.8mm General Purpose Machine Gun \| Ground Forces \| SinoDefence.com
		The machine gun was first fielded by the PLA Airborne Forces in the late 1990s and entered service with the ground forces possibly in 2005/06.
		However, instead of replacing the Type 67 7.62mm general purpose machine gun as a company-level suppression weapon, the Type 88 may be used equipped at infantry rifle squad level as a squad machine gun.
		The cartridge case is attached to the machine gun to enable firing while the gunner is moving.
	www.sinodefence.com /army/crewserved/mg_58.asp (399 words)

	Machine Guns
		General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) - A German invention between the World Wars, its purpose was to provide a very flexible gun that could serve as light, medium, and even heavy gun by adding or subtracting features such as tripods, bipods, shoulder stocks, sights, ammo carriers, and barrels.
		Submachine Gun (SMG) - The Italians are credited with inventing the SMG, though it was the Germans who first employed the concept effectively in the closing days of W.W.I. The SMG is a full automatic or select-fire weapon that is distinctive from other machine guns due to its reliance primarily on pistol ammunition.
		Such a term is a contradiction because the legal definition of a machine gun violates the principle of one shot per each pull of the trigger.
	www.paladinarmory.com /MachineGuns.htm (1932 words)

	NZ Army - Our Equipment - Machine Guns
		Machine guns are automatic weapons that provide suppressive fire onto an enemy target in support of our own troops.
		These guns were originally introduced into service in 1976, and despite their age, continue to be a very effective weapon.
		The Browning.50 calibre Machine Gun is a recoil operated, air-cooled, belt fed, medium machine gun.
	www.army.mil.nz /our-army/equipment/weapons/machine-guns.htm (365 words)

	The General Purpose Machine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Manroy GPMG is a gas operated, belt fed machine gun.
		In the infantry role the GPMG is designed to serve as either a Light Machine Gun (LMG) or as a Sustained Fire Machine Gun (SFMG).
		In the LMG role it is fired from a bipod, and in the SFMG mode from a tripod.
	www.manroy.co.uk /GPMG.HTML (316 words)

	Heavy Machine Gun
		Carrier by a machine gunner and used with the bipod, it takes on the role o a light machine gun, set up on a tripod, it is used for sustained direct and indirect fire.
		Actually,the "General Purpose" in GPMG refers to the fact the can be used as a light weapon from a bipod or in a sustained fire role from a tripod.
		The M60D fitted as a door gun, for example is not technically a general purpose machine gun as it's somewhat difficult to use in a ground role.
	p214.ezboard.com /fneasgfrm9.showMessage?topicID=268.topic (1098 words)

	M60 7.62mm General Purpose Machine Gun
		The M60 is general purpose gas-operated, air-cooled, belt-fed, automatic machine gun that fires from the open-bolt position.
		The M60 machine gun is loaded, fired, unloaded, and cleared from the open-bolt position.
		The M60 machine gun can be employed on its tripod to deliver accurate fire along fixed lines and then can quickly be converted to biped fire to cover alternate fields of fire.
	www.inetres.com /gp/military/infantry/mg/M60.html (1633 words)

	MILITARY FIREARMS -- M60 MACHINE GUN
		The Machine Gun, 7.62mm, M60 series (Medium Machine Gun) was type classified in 1957 as a companion to the 7.62mm M14 rifle.
		The M60 fires standard NATO 7.62mm ammunition and is used as a general support crew-served weapon.
		The M60E3 7.62mm machine gun is a lightweight, air-cooled, disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, portable or tripod mounted machine gun designed for USMC ground operations like its predecessor, the M60.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_other_firearms_mg_m60.php3 (496 words)

	M60 7.62mm Machine Gun
		The M60 is a gas-operated, air-cooled, belt-fed, automatic machine gun that fires from the open-bolt position.
		The M60 machine gun was never deemed fully satisfactory by its users despite efforts by both the Marine Corps and the Army to correct its many deficiencies.
		The M60/MK43 7.62mm Machine Gun within the NSW Inventory has proven to be less than reliable, NSW users have lost confidence in the weapon and the weapon is becoming logistically unsupportable.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ground/m60mg.htm (879 words)

	Daily Confession Users Forum - Gun Control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Gun control has worked in Australia so we don't really need to modify anything but clearly whatever is happening in other countries is not working so something has to be done.
		I mean sure if he didn't have a gun then he may have used a knife but it requires alot more to kill someone (or even get close) with a knife than to point and shoot a gun.
		The argument against what you're saying is that most guns are purchased legally and then handed off to criminals, so in effect, stricter gun control would reduce the number of guns and thereby reduce the number that gets in the hands of criminals.
	www.dailyconfession.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2010 (2671 words)

	PK Machine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The PK is the standard light machine gun of the Russian military.
		The 7.62-mm general-purpose machine gun Pulemyot Kalashnikov (PK) is a gas-operated, belt-fed, sustained-fire weapon.
		The PKB (PKBM) serves as a pintle-mounted gun on older armored vehicles such as the BRDM, BTR-50, and BTR-60.
	conspiracyx0.tripod.com /weapons/PK.htm (490 words)

	M-240B Machine Gun
		The M240B is a belt-fed, air-cooled, gas-operated, fully automatic machine gun that fires from the open bolt position.
		Thus, the gun functions automatically as long as it is supplied with ammunition and the trigger is held to the rear.
		Empty cases are ejected from the bottom of the gun.
	tech.military.com /equipment/view/89056/m-240b-machine-gun.html (219 words)

	WWII German Machine Guns - MG34 and MG40
		The previous German machine guns could not be operated by crews wearing mitts (which proved fatal in winter battles, especially in Russia).
		Because of its rapid fire rate, infantry troops provisioned with the machine guns were burdened with large quantities of heavy ammunition to feed the machine guns, which tended to make them less mobile, but more deadly.
		Those obsolete guns and the more advanced guns that followed, are described in detail and fully illustrated in the book's over 200 illustrations.
	www.jodavidsmeyer.com /combat/military/weapons-german-machine-guns.html (666 words)

	M60 GPMG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Saco Defense, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, has been the producer of the M60 machine gun since 1960.
		Aside from the baseline M60 general purpose machine gun, the M60 is available in three different configurations to suit mission requirements.
		Because it is more easily stabilized than other 7.62mm machine guns, it delivers this fire accurately and reliably out to its one kilometer maximum effective range.
	matrix.dumpshock.com /raygun/firearms/mg/m60.html (968 words)

	7.62mm General Purpose Machine Gun
		The General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) can be used as a light weapon, mounted on a bipod.
		It can also be seen in a sustained fire role, mounted on a tripod and fitted with the C2 optical sight.
		Versions of the GPMG are mounted on most Army vehicles and some helicopters.
	www.army.mod.uk /equipment/pw/pw_mg.htm (150 words)

	HK 21 \| Rifles N Guns
		It is a General Purpose Machine Gun par excellence.
		In fact the weapon that started out as a modified G3 assault rifle has evolved into a GPMG that is appreciated for its capabilities and functionality by special units the world over.
		The earliest HK 21 had its fair share of problems and hitches due to the fact that it was a modified assault rifle with a delayed blowback system, altered to a belt fed machine gun.
	www.riflesnguns.com /machine/hk/21 (585 words)

	frontline: ambush in mogadishu: weapons: m-60 machine gun
		The gun can be striped using a live round as a tool.
		This weapon is the Army's general purpose machine gun which entered the service in the 50s.
		The M-60 is considered to be a "crew served" weapon which means that it is operated by two soldiers: one the gunner and one the assistant.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/weapons/m60.html (167 words)

	Replica
		Each gun is a special order gun and is not made until ordered.
		No gun parts or components are used in the making of this gun.
		Again no gun parts or components were used in the production of these guns.
	www.military-vehicle.net /replica.htm (494 words)

	Black Hawk Down - Military.com Special Feature
		The Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), 5.56mm, is an individually portable, gas operated, magazine or disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, light machine gun.
		The M-60 series general purpose machine gun is a light weight, belt fed, gas operated, air cooled weapon and timing to allow for the rapid exchange of barrels during sustained firing situations.
		The Browning M2.50 Caliber Machine Gun, Heavy barrel is an automatic, recoil operated, air-cooled machine gun.
	www.military.com /ContentFiles/BHDequipmentW (149 words)

	M60 Machine Gun
		The M-60 series general purpose machine gun is a light weight, belt-fed, gas-operated, air-cooled weapon.
		The M-60 series general purpose machine gun is a light weight, belt fed, gas operated, air cooled weapon with fixed headspace and timing to allow for the rapid exchange of barrels during sustained firing situations.
		The M-60 can be carried and operated by one individual, though it is common practice to assign the weapon to a fire team (gunner and assistant gunner, who carries an additional barrel and ammunition).
	tech.military.com /equipment/viewEquipment.do?eq_id=89053 (178 words)

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