light machine gun
A type of machine gun designed to be operated by a single personnel, with or without an assistant. Early LMG designs are typically magazine-fed and fires full-powered rifle cartridge, such as the .303 British Bren.
Modern post-World War II designs fire intermediate round, and they can be either belt-fed or magazine-fed (e.g. the 5.56×45mm NATO M249). Some LMGs are based on the existing service rifle, such as the RPK.
List of light machine guns
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- Bren
- CETME Ameli
- Chauchat
- Daewoo K3
- DP-27
- FM 24/29
- FN Minimi / M249
- Galil ARM
- H&K HK23
- H&K MG36
- H&K MG4
- IWI Negev
- KK 62
- Knight's Armament Company LAMG
- Lahti-Saloranta M/26
- Lewis gun
- M1918 BAR
- M1941 Johnson LMG
- Madsen machine gun
- Type 88 LMG
- RPD
- RPK
- RPK-74
- RPK-16
- Stoner 63
- Type 11 light machine gun
- Type 96 light machine gun
- Type 99 light machine gun
- Valmet M78/83
- ZB-26
See also
This tag implicates gun (learn more).
The following tags implicate this tag: bren_lmg, imi_negev, m249, rpd, rpk, rpk-16, and rpk-74 (learn more).