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The Stoner 63 is a 5.56×45mm NATO modular weapon system. Using a variety of modular components, it can be configured as an assault rifle, carbine, top-fed light machine gun, belt-fed squad automatic w
United States Navy SEALs pose for a photo somewhere in Vietnam, 1970. The SEAL in the center of the group is carrying a Stoner 63A1 Mk 23 Mod 0 Commando with a short 15.7 in (398.8 mm) barrel.
A Navy SEAL stonerman in Vietnam keeps his Stoner 63 light machine gun at the ready while the rest of his squad prepares demolition charges on a Vietcong bunker. The weapon is fitted with a 150-round drum belt container and is fed from the left-hand side. The retracting handle is locked forward and the ejection port closed with a dust cover to minimize dirt entry.
Drawing of Stoner 63 Modular Weapon System
The Stoner 63A Commando lightweight SAW optimized for SEAL teams operating in Vietnam (US service designation XM-207). It features a short, 15.7" fluted barrel to reduce weight and several other minor modifications. Replaced in 1983 by the M249 SAW.
The Knight's Armament Company Light Assault Machine Gun is a light machine gun system developed by Eugene Stoner and manufactured by Knight's Armament Company. It was previously known as the Knight's
Stoner 63
…reworked Stoner 63 that was tested in the early 1990s by the Royal Thai Armed Forces using an ACOG scope. The most recent descendant of this line is the Stoner LMG produced by Knight's Armament Company, which has significant changes from the older Stoner 63, being based on Stoner's later model 86. Robinson Armament…
A U.S. Army 75th Ranger armed with an LAMG having an ELCAN Specter prism sight at the upper receiver's picatinny rail.
U.S. Army Ranger with 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, firing a KAC LAMG