The M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, or SAW, is an individually portable, gas operated, magazine or disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, light machine gun with fixed headspace and quick change...

The M249 SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon), [4] [5] [6] 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 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) provides squad-level fire support. It lays down a base of sustained fire and is used routinely in both mounted and dismounted configurations. The M249...

Introduced in 1984, this is the weapon that provides infantry squads with the high rate of fire of a machine gun while simultaneously proving accuracy and portability nearing that of a rifle. The M249 is gas operated and air-cooled.

2015年5月7日 · The M249 is a gas-operated, belt/magazine-fed, air-cooled, automatic, shoulder-fired weapon. Like the M240B machinegun, the M249 fires from the open-bolt position.

The M249 light machine gun is organic to the Infantry platoon and squads. It provides rifle squads with a light automatic weapon for employment during assault. (See figure F-1, page F-4.) The M249 also can be used in the medium machine gun role in …

2018年9月24日 · In the early 1990s, the U.S. Army and Marine Corps introduced a new weapon designed to radically boost the firepower of infantry squads. The M249 squad automatic weapon, or SAW, fired the same...

The U.S. Ordnance M249 machine gun provides infantry squads with the heavy volume of fire of a machine gun combined with accuracy and portability approaching that of a rifle. It can be fed from both linked ammunition and STANAG magazines, like those used in the M16 and M4.

The M249 SAWS is a lightweight, gas-operated, magazine or disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, individually portable machine gun capable of delivering a large volume of effective fire. The M249 AR provides accurate fire approaching that of the rifle yet gives the heavy volume of fire common to a machine gun.

2011年7月7日 · The M249 is an individually portable machine gun capable of delivering a large volume of effective fire to support infantry squad operations. The weapon has a gas regulator for selecting...