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Offline CommissarGears

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« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2010, 03:11:06 PM »
M60 is a Medium Machine Gun still in active service with the United States Marine Corps.
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« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2010, 04:43:02 PM »

 Yea, I know.
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« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2010, 10:12:03 PM »
Not the original M60.  The current model is somewhat different and not used in large numbers.  Having recently joined said Marine Corps, I should think that I have some degree of respectability. 

Currently the 7.62mm MMG of the USMC is the M240B, sometimes referred to as the 240 Bravo.   The M240B is an unscaled M249 SAW intended to be used as a mounted weapon although it is light enough to be manhandled if necessary.
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« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2010, 12:05:21 PM »
 yea M249SAW is current 'normal' MMG.
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« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2010, 04:18:28 PM »
Which, to turn this argument around, the Germans copied with the MG4.

Even though it maintains some characteristics of the MG42/MG3 (mainly the feeding mechanism), the principle of the Squad Support Weapon was adopted after seeing its usefulness in the US Forces.

But then again, you could argue that the FG42 was the real first LMG, despite its rarity.

Another little factoid: The American Combined Arms Doctrine is a neat name for people who don't want to use the term Blitzkrieg. A-10 Thunderbolt II's basically play the same role in the American doctrine as the StuKas did for the Germans in WW2...
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« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2010, 02:56:13 AM »

 - Schuultz :
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Winston Churchill  ;)
 * What was MG34 copied off from?
 * Aye, A-10 is neo Stuka allright. Why not use what works?
 Germans hit on a gold mine right there. Allowed them to really nail France/Britain right off the bat.
 
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« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2010, 03:55:09 AM »
If I'm not mistaken, the MG34 was based off the MG30.

This in turn was designed by Rheinmetall in Germany, however, due to the restrictions set upon Germany by Versailles, the Reichswehr was not allowed to adopt it - keep in mind that this was three years before Hitler got to power, who didn't give a crap about restrictions.

The only nations that ended up adopting it right off the bat were Switzerland through Solothurn and Austria through Steyr.

It wasn't until Hitler got to power later on that Germany adopted it, naming it the MG15/17 and using it in their aircraft.

Also, I was not smashing the Americans for adopting the Blitzkrieg doctrine, I was just pointing it out, because a lot of Americans don't seem to realize that.
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