>Hi All,
>I have heard that the M240 machine gun is a gimpy in disguise - is this true?
>OMVC:
True! Commonly called the FN MAG 58, this epitome of the GPMG genre wass
adopted by us Brits in 1957 and it lost in a shoot out competition for
the US Army with the M60 in 1974 despite the fact that only the MAG 58
met the specified minimum. In fact, it even exceeded the "dreamsheet"
(minimum desired). The MAG 58 coaxial machine gun was type classified in
1976 as the M240 coaxial vehicular machine gun. But was never really
accepted for service until now [NIH syndrome].
The US Army have replaced almost all of their M60s with a ground model
of the FN M240 machine gun (called the M240G in the Marine Corps, the
M240B in the US Army]
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