At 07:25 PM 8/24/01 -0500, you wrote:
>True...army learned a lesson from the Marines....it was on the M1...only
>the M1....
?
We were applying the MWO to our M60A3 tanks prior to receiving the first M1s
>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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