M60 machine gun - Wikipedia
网页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.
The M60 Machine Gun in the Vietnam War - Warfare History …
网页The M60 was 42 inches long and weighed a little over 23 pounds. It was gas operated, with a 50-round link belt of 7.62mm ammunition and a muzzle velocity of 2,800 feet per second. Its maximum effective range was 1,200 yards with the bipod and an additional 329 feet when the tripod was added.
M60 tank - Wikipedia
网页The M60 is an American second-generation main battle tank (MBT). It was officially standardized as the Tank, Combat, Full Tracked: 105-mm Gun, M60 in March 1959. [1] Although developed from the M48 Patton, the M60 tank series was never officially christened as a Patton tank.
M60 7.62mm Machine Gun - Federation of American Scientists
网页The M60E3 7.62mm machine gun is a lightweight, air-cooled, disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, portable or tripod mounted machine gun designed for ground operations like its predecessor, the M60. It is gas operated with fixed headspace and timing which permits rapid changing of barrels.
When Pigs Fly: The Heliborne M60 Machine Gun in Vietnam
网页2020年6月21日 · Also, the M60’s 7.62 mm ammunition was powerful enough to penetrate the branches and brush of the Vietnamese jungle. Its cyclic rate, usually about 600 rounds per minute, was controllable and ...
M60 machine gun | Vietnam War | Fandom
网页The M60 (formally named United States 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 live ammunition approved for use in the M60, including ball, tracer, and armor-piercing rounds.
M60 Machine Gun: 3 Interesting Facts to Know! - RECOIL
网页2016年6月16日 · The ammunition was eventually adopted as NATO's 7.62x51mm round. M60 ammunition most often arrived in 100-round belts packaged in chipboard boxes in cloth bags; it also came in longer belts stowed in metal ammo cans for shooting from a bipod or tripod. 3. M60 Shooting & Use. The M60 was formally adopted in 1957.
US 7.62mm M60 Machine Gun and the MG42 - Firearms News
网页2021年12月2日 · The M60’s 550 to 650 rpm cyclic rate provided a high hit probability without a copious expenditure of ammunition, as was the case with the German MG42. It combined controllability for accurate bursts, or extended strings for suppressive fire.
M60 7.62mm General Purpose Machine Gun - inetres.com
网页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 …
The M60 Machine gun :: Guns.com
网页2013年5月29日 · The original M60 machine gun. It had a cyclic rate of 550 rounds per minute, similar to the M1919 it was replacing. Using disintegrating link ammunition, the typical gunner would fire six to nine...
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