Plunging fire
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Plunging fire is a form of indirect fire, where gunfire is fired at a trajectory to make it fall on its target from above. It is normal at the high trajectories used to attain long range, and can be u
Plunging fire on a warship: the steeper angle of fire allows the shell to hit the thinner deck armor
FN MAG
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The FN MAG is a Belgian 7.62 mm general-purpose machine gun, designed in the early 1950s at Fabrique Nationale by Ernest Vervier. It has been used by more than 80 countries and it has been made under
Plunging fire
…Army still trains specialist infantry units, called Direct Fires Support Weapons DFSW teams, to perform an indirect sustained fire role with the MAG 58 GPMG, fitted with a C2A2 Support Weapons Sight - similar to a mortar sight. In this role the MAG 58 can fire a beaten zone up to a range 3,000 m (1.9 mi…
An FN MAG with modern polymer furniture
FN Mle D variant of the Browning M1918 (BAR)
Wehrmacht reenactors with a belt-fed MG 42
A schematic showing the mechanism of the FN MAG.