Hey...I will bite into anything you guys have to say...My only point was
that the Marines had them first...and thats a fact....
Jon
At 09:02 PM 8/24/01 -0600, Gene Pantano wrote:
>Wrong...I installed them in our M60A2's here at Fort Carson back about 1988.
>Along with new Kevlar shields..
>I was the lead Armorer at a MATES here.. 1SG PANTANO
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jon Shoop" <shoop19@brick.net>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 6:25 PM
>Subject: Re: [MV] Gimpy in disguise?
>
>
>> True...army learned a lesson from the Marines....it was on the M1...only
>> the M1....
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>> At 10:33 AM 8/24/01 -0700, Tony Castagno wrote:
>> >Actually... the M240 Coaxial machine gun has always been in the M1
>tank....
>> >
>> >
>> >Gunner Coax Troops....
>> >Tony
>> >
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Jim Webster [mailto:jimweb@simonides.org]
>> >Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 12:50 PM
>> >To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
>> >Subject: Re: [MV] Gimpy in disguise?
>> >
>> >
>> >>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]
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >--
>> >TTFN
>> >Jim
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