The M60, officially the Machine Gun, Caliber 7.62 mm, M60, is a family of American general-purpose machine guns firing 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges from a disintegrating belt of M13 links. There are several types of ammunition approved for use in the M60, including ball, tracer, and armor-piercing rounds. [5]

The 7.62mm NATO M60E6 General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) represents the latest improvements to the M60 Series of machine guns. It is a gas operated, disintegrating link, belt fed, air-cooled machine gun. It fires from an open bolt and features a quick-change barrel.

2023年8月10日 · The M60 served as the primary American general purpose machine gun for a good part of the 20th Century, being fielded in the squad support and vehicle mounted roles during its tenure. The M60 appeared following the close of the Korean War. It entered service in 1957 and saw extensive use in all United States branches from 1960 on.

2020年9月24日 · Watch this American Rifleman "At The Range" video segment above to learn about the M60 general-purpose machine gun chambered in 7.62 mm NATO.

2021年9月2日 · Here’s What You Need to Know: The M60 has come a long way from its Vietnam-era iteration. The M60 is one of the enduring symbols of the American firearms industry. Born out of a fusion of two...

2004年9月26日 · The M60 is general purpose gas-operated, air-cooled, belt-fed, automatic machine gun that fires from the open-bolt position. The weapon features fixed head space, which permits rapid changing of barrels. It has a maximum rate of fire of 550 rounds per minute.

The M60 is an early Cold War era machine gun of US origin. It was designed after World War 2 to replace the BAR and M1919. The design is based on the Nazi German FG-42 and MG42 machine guns, although it has very different characteristics than both weapons.

W.W. Greener G60 Royal Tang Safety 12ga BLE Description: Very unusual Greener, G60 Royal Grade with scalloped action, restrained wheat and oak-leaf border engraving and a tang safety, almost sacrilege for Greener. Gold washed mechanism, self-acting ejectors.

2017年6月27日 · The M60 machine gun was adopted by the U.S. military in 1957 and has served in five different major variations. Thirty years ago, Warner Brothers released Stanley Kubrick’s motion picture ...

2013年5月29日 · Using a mash up of technology garnered from WWII, the US military selected a compromise general-purpose machine gun in 1957 that remains in limited service to this day. This gun, officially...