No dedicated range finder or binoculars, no real spare parts kit for the M60, a cleaning kit that was a sad joke, and on and on and on.First time I saw the outfit the Germans had for the MG42, I about to wept with jealousy. This was an initial requirement for the design and a hold-over in concept from the The M60 machine gun began development in the late 1940s as a program for a new, lighter 7.62 mm machine gun. The M122 would be itself replaced in the 2000s (decade) by a new mount, in time for the M60 to also be used with it. The The reduced-weight components also reduced the durability of the weapon, making it more prone to rapid wear and parts breakage than the original. The advantage of the fixed regulator was no adjustment was required, though it risked the ability to compensate for fouling of the gas system, leading to insufficient power to operate the action, including lifting the ammunition belt. Most people?

I like the bullet-hose effect they provide, but the weight and general unwieldy nature of the beast are things I just don’t care for, at all. M60 machine gun fired during a small arms familiarization exercise aboard USS A member of the 810th Military Police Company mans a 7.62 mm M60 machine gun atop an M998 Humvee during Operation Desert Shield.The M60 family of weapons are capable of firing standard NATO rounds of the appropriate caliber. If WWIII had ever lit off, and I was still surviving as a machinegunner after the initial wave of nukes went off?
The grip/trigger housing assembly is held in place with a rather fragile leaf spring clip instead of the captive pins used in other designs.

IT WAS STILL SERVICEABLE. The amount of time in any military organization is finite; you can’t take the “flashy VCR” types and bring them up to speed on an excessively finicky and fragile system like the M60 in any really time-economical manner, and that’s a huge part of my angst with the weapon. Just NO. Most common in U.S. use are M61 The standard combat ammunition mix for the M60 consists of four ball (M80) When tested in the field, the M60 was fairly effective, but in the jungles of For units in Vietnam, the single most common complaint was that the M60 was comparatively unreliable and prone to jamming and other malfunctions, especially when it was dirty. The large grip also allowed the weapon to be conveniently carried at the hip. I am very curious about the Knight’s Armament weapon system that they’re coming out with, and look forward to Ian wringing that thing out.All that said, however… The root of the issue is “How do you mean to fight…?”. Oh, hell no. Isn’t the M122 good enough?”.Seriously–I’ve had these conversations with the morons in the system.

The M240 was barely broken in.With the M240, you had to try hard to abuse it enough to make it break. Have to carry a heat mitten to change the barrel safely…?

First and second interests are keeping the bureaucracy going, and personal aggrandizement. The basic design has undergone some smaller changes, and has been produced by different manufacturers. So many features on the M60 were cribbed off of other designs half-assedly and with total inattention to the experiences of the original weapons designers and maintenance authorities.The bolt cam track, for example–You look at the M60, and the op rod tower that rides in that track is The sear? Marines especially disliked the M60, and many Marine units held onto their The U.S. Navy special operations forces continued to use the M60E3 for years because of its portability and low weight for its caliber, with a number of upgrades, including a change in feed system and barrel configuration. Stalin would have simply had them shot–But, not with an M60.

Le levier d'armement, la sûreté et la La poignée de transport est fixée sur la carcasse pour les premières versions et sur le canon pour les dernières. Post-war soldiers did not receive that kind of support at all, so our memories of that gun are somewhat more realistic about what it really was, which was a total POS. Are. I can think of no better way to get blue-on-blue, when the soldier finishes putting his weapon back into service, and then tries to regain situational awareness of what is going on in the firefight around him. MG42? Even when it was brand new.Which if you’ll pardon my saying so, is another less-than-great design, noted among other things for case-head separations due to too-rapid opening of the breech as a consequence of its (barely) retarded-blowback action.Matters were not improved when in the 1980s the ’52s were rebarreled from 7.5 x 54 to 7.62 x 51 NATO. These weapons are identical to standard M60E4s, with the exception of the barrel length, and can be used either as suppressive fire or direct fire weapons. I actually had parts cannibalized off my guns to get other people’s junk up and running, while mine were in maintenance.In 65 we got our belted ammo in relabled 30 caliber ammo cans that had corrugated cardboard fillers placed at the projectile side of the can. Good job wars are a thing of the past!“JGSDF Type 62 GPMG(…)mostly machined from steel stock”Very good point about the Type 62. Apparently, the lightened E3 or whatever version was supplied to some Navy se.a.l. He told me: “what you want to shoot with it, rabbits?” Now of course, I have slightly different views too The M16, I can live with.

There was very little they By the time I went into the Australian military in 1969, problems with the M60 were well known. For one, no one designing the M-60 remembered to put a wire-carrying handle on the barrel. This was a major factor in the Israeli Defense Force declining to adopt the M60 in favor for the FN MAG.
Everything has to be discovered for ourselves, and promptly forgotten or ignored.