After unsuccessful attempts to develop universal models of the German machine guns by firing bullets of large caliber, American designers attempted to issue their own offspring. Thus, in the 50-ies of the last century there was a brand new model – the M60 machine gun, a photo of which will be discussed in this material.
During the Second world war by the army of the United States was enough heavy machine guns М1919 and М1918. Despite the high level of reliability, machine guns had lower maneuverability on the battlefield. In addition, hand gun М1918 had a relatively small magazine capacity (20 rounds), making it impossible maintaining a long and heavy fire suppression.
Development of an improved sample began in the United States immediately after the end of world conflict. New M60 machine gun was designed for cartridges caliber 7.62 x 51 mm. during the tests the model has been proven as accurate, quite a powerful weapon. However, the whimsical nature of the American soldiers immediately dubbed sample not only as “pig”. However, during the battles in Vietnam was the M60 machine gun TTX was used as the main rapid-fire, heavy weapons fire in the dense thickets of the local jungle.
In the 70-ies of the army high command took the decision to replace the model on a sample of Belgian FN MAG. The reason was a significant number of misfires, which gave the M60 machine gun during continuous firing. Despite this, the development still remains in service support of the Americans.
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M60-machine gun of American manufacture. The advantage of this sample is the possibility of installation in military vehicles, particularly tanks, armored personnel carriers and support vehicles. During the Vietnam war M60 machine gun was used as on-Board weapons on the helicopters.
A weapon Designed primarily to suppress infantry and defeat dense, the advancing enemy forces. At the time, the machine gun played an indispensable tool, if necessary, provide fire support to land forces.
What parameters you'll be the M60 machine gun? The weight of the weapon in the basic Assembly is about 10 kg. is equal to the Length of 1.11 m. Rate of fire-600 rounds per minute. Starting speed rounds of 7.62 mm does not exceed 853 m/s.
The M60 machine Gun based off the design of automation with a gas drive. Locking barrel under the influence of rotation of the shutter. The model is equipped with quick-change barrel, which is caused by the tendency to overheating during continuous fire. Nutrition ammunition-belt. As for sights, the latter practically does not differ from the sample mounted on the M16 automatic rifle.
The machine Gun can be mounted on a tripod or on a bipod. Maximum range of fire is about 1800 m. At this distance remains the lethal effect of weapons. For damping impact load the butt is equipped with rubber coating.
Despite the presence of a number of modifications, the series of M60 machine guns still has a number of disadvantages. The main disadvantage is the use of rather unreliable venting systems. The energy of the powder gases is often not enough to suppress the resistance of the stock. The result was misfires and fitful:shooting.
Another disadvantage common to the most improved models, acts unregulated fastening fly. This feature prevents zeroing of the gun after being forced to change barrel because of overheating.
In General, the M60 machine gun is not too high demand. Currently, the sample consists on arms of army of South Korea, Australia, Egypt, Taiwan and El Salvador. In the US the model is replaced by a modified gun based on the Belgian MAG machinegun.
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