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| | Modern Firearms - Stoner 63 weapon system: rifle and carbine |
 | | The only military application of the Stoner 63 system, however, was the Mk.23 model 0 belt-fed light machine gun configuration, used in limited numbers by US Navy Special Forces and Marine Corps in Vietnam. |
 | | In general the Stoner system, while having the advantages of modularity and interchangeability of parts and thus great flexibility in tactical use, is too heavy as a rifle, and too expensive and somewhat over-complicated in general. |
 | | Overall, some 3,500 to 4,000 Stoner 63 weapon kits were produced between 1962 and 1971. |
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