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.

2003年1月26日 · .50 cal. Browning M2 has been in production since WWI (yes WW one) largely unchanged making it one of the oldest firearm designs still in production. The M60 is chambered for the NATO 7.62x51mm round, the military equivalent of the civilian .308 round, so it is a .30 cal.

2022年8月16日 · The M-60 is an air-cooled, disintegrating belt-fed, gas-operated general purpose machine gun. It fires the 7.62 mm round with a cyclic rate of about 550 rounds a minute — a rate of fire that requires the crew to change the M-60’s barrel about every minute.

Firing the M-60 and the Browning 50 Caliber

The M60 machine gun was what the military called a “crew-served weapon,” requiring a team of three soldiers to transport, load, and fire it. It was capable of several types of fire: grazing, plunging, flanking, oblique, and enfilading.

2020年6月21日 · In place of the normal M60 trigger we added an M2 .50-caliber-style twin grip trigger assembly with a thumb activated ‘butterfly’ firing button.

2024年1月19日 · Initially entering service in 1957, the M60 machine gun was quickly dubbed the “Pig” for its hefty size and significant weight of 10.5 kg. Designed as a general purpose machine gun (GPMG), its primary function was to offer a balance between the portability of a light machine gun and the firepower of a heavy machine gun.

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.

2013年5月29日 · Selected by the military in 1957, the M60 was used as the broom to sweep the older M1919 machine guns, M2 and M3 carbines, and even the few remaining Thompson subguns out the door. While some of...

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...