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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, using the energy of gases generated by a controlled explosion. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Gatling gun (machine gun, 19th century) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• M2 machine gun [r]: A .50 caliber heavy machine gun, designed at the end of the First World War, which remains, after only slight modifications, in U.S. and worldwide service in infantry, vehicle, naval and aircraft applications ^[e]
• 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. and NATO standard medium machine gun, firing NATO 7.62mm ammunition ^[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

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• 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]: Infantry rifle firing a full-power cartridge from a detachable magazine, used from the shoulder or from a bipod support; could substitute for a light machine gun but with much less ammunition; obsolete after WWII ^[e]
• Full-automatic [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Infantry weapons [r]: Add brief definition or description
• NATO [r]: Official abbreviation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. ^[e]
• 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]