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.

A major question for the Army is whether its new machine gun should chamber the 7.62mm round or another caliber, a retired ...

HMS Dauntless, one of the Royal Navy’s six Type 45 destroyers, has successfully carried out live-fire exercises during ...

Because of its higher firing rate, the MG42 also overheats sooner than its successor, the MG3, which came out in 1959. The MG42 still fulfills a need in the general-purpose machine gun class.

Later, we examine the history of the classic Cold War-era Russian general-purpose machine gun, the PKM. Based off the long-stroke Kalashnikov gas-operated action of the AK family of rifles, the ...

Mastiff has a maximum speed of 90kph [56mph], is armed with the latest weapon systems, including a 7.62mm general purpose machine gun, 12.7mm heavy machine gun or 40mm automatic grenade launcher." ...

The Sig MG 338 general-purpose machine gun weighs just over 21 pounds and fires at a rate of 600 rounds per minute, delivering potent .338 Norma Magnum rounds out to ranges of 1,500 meters.

Whereas most nations had developed machine guns that could be moved forward in an attack — such as the British Bren Gun or Germany’s general-purpose MG34, the Breda 37 was utilized with a ...

The tank was quite lightly armored, though it could resist fire from most general-purpose machine guns and other small arms. For the rigors of warfare, especially in the latter half of the Second ...