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<blockquote data-quote="JEVapa" data-source="post: 3768743" data-attributes="member: 41176"><p>WRT your machinegun knowledge, have you ever been a maggot? Have you used a pig or a 240 or a 249 in the military? I still have a copy of a 23-67 and the last time we used the pig was around 95-98...they were getting phased out. The army has been using the 240 over 20 years now...closer to 25+. The pig has been long gone. That looks like a copy/paste from the internet somewhere.</p><p></p><p>BTW, the M60 always was a MG. It's never been used as an automatic rifle. The M249 is a LMG who's role was to replace the Automatic rifleman in an infantry squad; we first got them in 1987. It always has been and always will be a one-man weapon; <u><em>it is not a crew-served weapon.</em></u> It uses a standard 200 round box drum that clips to the bottom of the gun...not 50 rounds...??? The SAW gunner usually carries two to four of these boxes, and there will be four to eight more strung through the squad along with the rest of their heavy ass sh*t. It also has 100 round "nutsacks" to make it a little lighter. Its role is still as the automatic rifleman weapon now called the Squad Automatic Weapon. It is not intended to replace the former M60 or the current M240 light/medium MG or used in the traditional MG role, (unless of course that's all you got coz you left your 240 in the firebase).</p><p></p><p>The "bigger target" theory you say of the M60 (which again, hasn't been used for over 20 years but now the M240) because of the amount of manpower required to "feed it", is bunk. What makes it a bigger target is that it's the greatest casualty-producing weapon on the battlefield. MG are always the first thing that draws everybody's' attention and fire.</p><p></p><p>Back to my original point. They have been working this issue for the last 3+ years to get to this point. They know what they are doing and regardless of "expert" opinions, again, they kind of know what they're doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JEVapa, post: 3768743, member: 41176"] WRT your machinegun knowledge, have you ever been a maggot? Have you used a pig or a 240 or a 249 in the military? I still have a copy of a 23-67 and the last time we used the pig was around 95-98...they were getting phased out. The army has been using the 240 over 20 years now...closer to 25+. The pig has been long gone. That looks like a copy/paste from the internet somewhere. BTW, the M60 always was a MG. It's never been used as an automatic rifle. The M249 is a LMG who's role was to replace the Automatic rifleman in an infantry squad; we first got them in 1987. It always has been and always will be a one-man weapon; [U][I]it is not a crew-served weapon.[/I][/U] It uses a standard 200 round box drum that clips to the bottom of the gun...not 50 rounds...??? The SAW gunner usually carries two to four of these boxes, and there will be four to eight more strung through the squad along with the rest of their heavy ass sh*t. It also has 100 round "nutsacks" to make it a little lighter. Its role is still as the automatic rifleman weapon now called the Squad Automatic Weapon. It is not intended to replace the former M60 or the current M240 light/medium MG or used in the traditional MG role, (unless of course that's all you got coz you left your 240 in the firebase). The "bigger target" theory you say of the M60 (which again, hasn't been used for over 20 years but now the M240) because of the amount of manpower required to "feed it", is bunk. What makes it a bigger target is that it's the greatest casualty-producing weapon on the battlefield. MG are always the first thing that draws everybody's' attention and fire. Back to my original point. They have been working this issue for the last 3+ years to get to this point. They know what they are doing and regardless of "expert" opinions, again, they kind of know what they're doing. [/QUOTE]
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