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Parent topics
- Firearm [r]: Device, often designed to be used as a weapon, which projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosion. [e]
Subtopics
- Gatling gun (machine gun, 19th century) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M-2 (machine gun) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- FN MAG 58 (machine gun) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M60 (machine gun) [r]: A widely used, U.S. designed medium machine gun firing 7.62mm NATO-standard rifle ammunition, but not itself being a NATO standard weapon [e]
- M61 Vulcan (machine gun) [r]: The first widely deployed electrically-powered, 20mm, rotating-barrel autocannon, used on aircraft and some ground vehicles in the Vietnam War [e]
- M240 (machine gun) [r]: U.S. medium machine gun, firing NATO 7.62mm ammunition, but not itself a NATO standard weapon [e]
- M249 (machine gun) [r]: U.S. standard light machine gun, also called the squad automatic weapon, firing 5.56mm ammunition, and is a derivative of the Belgian FN MINIMI (machine gun) [e]
- M-134 (machine gun) [r]: A U.S. medium machine gun, firing 7.62mm ammunition but rotating-barrel and belt-fed as opposed to the more common, but slower firing single barrel machine guns. [e]
- MG-34 (machine gun) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Maxim gun (machine gun) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Minigun (machine gun) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Minimi (machine gun) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RPK (machine gun) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RPK-74 (machine gun) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Aircraft weapons [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Assault rifle [r]: An individual weapon intended for infantry combat, which fires an intermediate-power cartridge, has a large magazine, and can fire fixed bursts (usually 3 shots) or in full-automatic mode [e]
- Autocannon [r]: A magazine-fed cannon that will load and fire continuously until its magazine is empty. [e]
- Automatic rifle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Full-automatic [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Infantry weapons [r]: Add brief definition or description
- NATO [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Recoil [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Semi-automatic [r]: A firearm that loads and fires once for each pull of the trigger [e]
- Submachine gun [r]: A firearm that can shoot a pistol cartridge (i.e., less powerful than a rifle cartridge) in full-automatic mode [e]
