PKM vs FN MAG vs MG3 vs M60 vs MG5 vs Pecheneg vs Mk 48 Thread starter Varanidae; Start date Dec 21, 2017; Which GPMG is the best?
PKM Votes: 10 22.7% MAG/M240 …
By the mid-1970s, it became clear to many that even with constant improvements, the M73 and M219 tank machine guns had proven to be unreliable. The heavy 7.62s aka the GPMGs, are the M240, the PKP, and the M60. The Bundeswehr just started to replace the one MG3 with two MG4s in the squad.
M240 7.62mm Machine Gun.
The MG3 was/is a squad level weapon and not attached from a higher level to the squads.
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What actually seems to have done in the program was the high rate of fire. The M240 is fed using the disintegrating steel belts of various lengths.
(Which to my understanding started life as slick M240 COAX's) ... Those certainly weren't the impressions I garnered firing the MG3.
3. The rate of fire can be selected between "low" (~650 rpm) and "high" (~950 rpm), depending on the tactical situation, and the gun can be fired in full auto only.
The M240, officially the Machine Gun, 7.62 mm, M240, is the US military designation for the FN MAG (Mitrailleuse A Gaz, "gas-operated machine gun"; alternatively, Mitrailleuse d'Appui General "machine gun, support, general"), a family of belt-fed, gas-operated medium machine guns that chamber the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge..
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Re: Why should the MG3 be significantly better than the FN M Message par Aikmofobi » Jeu 2 Oct 2014 08:28 The main advantage of the MG3 vs the FN MAG is the rate of fire. But when a MG3 is needed one may very well also bring it along instead of the MG4s so that one has some squads with one MG3 and some with two MG4s.