M240 machine gun
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The M240, officially the Medium Machine Gun, 7.62 mm, M240, is the U.S. military designation for the FN MAG, a family of belt-fed, gas-operated medium machine guns that chamber the 7.62×51mm NATO cart
M240B equipped with a bipod
M240 coaxial machine gun aboard an M1 Abrams tank
A US Marine inserts an ammunition belt into the feed tray of the M240G
A Marine performs maintenance on a mounted M240 pintle-mounted machine gun on a LAV
General-purpose machine gun
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A general-purpose machine gun is an air-cooled, usually belt-fed machine gun that can be adapted flexibly to various tactical roles. Many medium machine guns are also considered general-purpose machin
The MG-42 type general-purpose machine guns in both bipod and tripod configurations. The tall tripod on the right is for anti-aircraft use.
MG 34 belt-fed tripod version (top) and saddle-drum magazine bipod version (below)
MG 42/59
MG3