M249 light machine gun
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m249-light-machine-gun-175-3980091
title:
M249 light machine gun
text:
The M249 SAW, formally the Light Machine Gun, 5.56 mm, M249, is the United States Armed Forces adaptation of the Belgian FN Minimi, a light machine gun manufactured by FN Herstal (FN.) The M249 SAW is manufactured in the United States by the subsidiary FN Manufacturing LLC, a company in Columbia, South Carolina, and is widely used in the U.S. Armed Forces. The weapon was introduced in 1984 to address a lack of sustained automatic fire capability at the squad level. The M249 SAW combines the rate
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description:
Light machine gun
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M249_light_machine_gun
date created:
2001-10-01T22:12:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T02:28:53Z
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