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Machine Guns

LMG, MMG, SAW, HMG, GPMG…Oh My: Forgotten Weapons Explains Machine Gun Terminology

The guys at Forgotten Weapons have done a great video which explains Machine Gun Terminology. Not only are there way too many different categories of machine guns, some of these terms have changed over time. Forgotten Weapons tells us who makes them, why they exist and their place in military history. Automatic Rifle: Shoulder or hip […]

Ranger Loadout: MK48 Machine Gunner

Ranger Loadout: MK48 machine gunner

After successfully completing RIP (Ranger Indoctrination Program later renamed RASP) I was assigned to 2nd Ranger Battalion (Cco-MadSlashers). When I arrived at Ft. Lewis it was basically empty. I was sent on a reach-back bird (planes that carry people into, and out of combat for various reasons) to meet my already deployed platoon. After a […]

The Peshmerga and the AK-47, the World’s Most Enduring Rifle

The Peshmerga and the AK-47, the World’s Most Enduring Rifle

Like most armies in this part of the world, the Peshmerga’s go-to weapon is the AK-47/AKM. Sure, they have the G36 and a few M16/M4s floating around (usually with officers), but the Kalashnikov is the name of the game. What makes it fascinating is the number of variants and origins that you can find in the […]

Marines review Ammo Incorporated ammunition: full auto, suppressors, tracers and more

Marines review Ammo Incorporated ammunition: full auto, suppressors, tracers and more

Sometimes the stars align and a good thing gets even better. It started with getting my shipment of Ammo Incorporated rounds delivered, including their Streak visual ammunition (tracer rounds), Stelth subsonic ammunition, and OPS high-accuracy hollow point ammunition. Then I get a text message from my Marine buddy that he has a friend who wants […]

Watch: UH-1Y Door Gunners conduct aerial gunnery

Watch: UH-1Y Door Gunners conduct aerial gunnery

U.S. Marines participating in Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) Course 1-16, conduct an aerial gunnery with GAU-17 Minigun and GAU-18 M2 machine gun on UH-1Y Venom helicopter near Yuma, Arizona.   *Photo courtesy of AirSource Military Youtube channel

Arms of the Soviet Union: DP-28 Light Machine Gun

Take a close-up look and learn some history of the Dp-28 Light Machine Gun. This pan-fed machine gun was instrumental in the Soviet’s defeat of the Nazis.

GAU-19/A Naval Mount

GAU-19 Gatling .50 Cal

The GAU-19 Gatling .50 Cal is one serious piece of hardware which I thought I’d mention today in light of it’s renewed interest for Naval deployment.  Many have never even heard of it or seen it deployed, which is a shame because this monster can lay down the hate.  Whenever someone is talking about the […]

Nazi Wunderwaffe: the MG42 and the Sturmgeweher

At the start of the World War II, the German Army (Wehrmacht) equipped their infantry with a mix of bolt action rifles and machine guns. They would find that mass production required a different weapon and a new machinegun, the MG42 was developed. Between the wars, they had developed the revolutionary Maschinengewehr 34, or MG […]

Weird Gun Wednesday: The Stoner 63 Machine Gun

Weird Gun Wednesday: The Stoner 63 Machine Gun

Talking with Vietnam vets is always a learning experience. They are a truly remarkable bunch of guys who accomplished a lot with very little.  I am fortunate to know a SEAL who did some time during the heyday of Vietnam. Reading stories about the Brown Water Navy and SEAL/UDT Platoons in books were great but […]

Richard Gatling Applies for a Patent on His Gatling Gun, December, 1862

Richard Gatling Applies for a Patent on His Gatling Gun, December, 1862

The Gatling gun is one of the most iconic early rapid-firing guns, a forerunner to the machine gun that revolutionized warfare. Gatling’s spring loaded, hand-cranked weapon was first used by Union forces during the American Civil War in the early 1860s, but it didn’t see widespread use by US forces until after the war. Dr. […]

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