"I believe they've seen combat. Of course, they can't carry as much ammunition as an aircraft or ship-based weapon system. For ground vehicles, it's just plain cheaper to mount gas or recoil-operated weapons that probably won't run out of ammo in combat."

"Then again, my opinion is that fragmentation bombs dropped from fighter jets will easily end the zedpoc.. at least the majority of it.
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"Good point I get bored of the M-240 working with it daily but your right I can carry all 28 lbs of it + Ammo. What about the old M-60 I got to shoot one in tech school right before they took it out of inventory. Anyone have experience with that??? "

"I shot a dealers sample M60 years ago at a shoot, shot OK, but felt like a cheap gun.. My old Maxim was more accurate

The M60 has a reputation as one of the worst modern MG with lots of poor design features and problems, Things like a triiger assembly and gas system held together with twisted wire. Also if assembled wrong could be damaged
Was one of those weapons like the M14 that The US military adopted not because it was the best but because it was "ours""

"You can egress with the M2, but what would be the point?

It's not designed to be fired from the hip or shoulder, and you're never going to find it with a trigger system that would allow it (except in a custom mount that would be one of the most useless wastes of ammunition ever). You also wouldn't have a tripod to mount it on when you left."

"When the US military adopted the M60 back in the 1950s one of the guns that competed against it in the trials was the FN MAG 58 which did better then it but still the M60 was adopted,

Finaly many years later the M60 was replaced by the M240 a much better gun and which is a variation of........the FN MAG 58 !

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