An M60 machine gun. A general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) is a belt-fed weapon used in a variety of roles, from bipod- or tripod-mounted infantry support to deployment as a helicopter door gun or a vehicle-mounted support weapon. It can provide fire support for vehicles or infantry from a variety of mounts. In modern practice, it is an air-cooled medium machine gun, firing rifle cartridges such.
Despite the machine gun being heavy in weight and does not push as much fire power at a time as the rest, it has been around since the 1930’s, it still stands as a masterpiece in the Browning machine gun collection by going beyond its intended duty during the wars of the world as we know it. More the gun collectors dream to own one today. We can classify it as one of the world’s best.
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British Infantry Weapons. In 1940 the standard infantry weapons found in a British company would be the Enfield revolvers, Lee-Enfield rifles, Bren guns and 2in mortars. Sub machine guns like the Sten would not be issued until mid-1941. Heavier support weapons like the Vickers machine guns and 3in mortars were kept at battalion level. By mid.
