MAG = Mitrailleuse d'Appui General (Belgian) = General Purpose Machinegun (GPMG)
MAG, designed in 1950's in Belgium by famous Fabrque Nationale (FN), Herstal, is adopted by more than 20 countries, including USA (under designation M240), UK (L7 GPMG), Israel, India, Sweden.
MAG is gas-driven, belt-fed machinegun. Gas drive has 4 position gas regulator. All MAGs and its derivatives have quick interchangeable barrels that could be swapped in battle environment.
MAGs are truly universal MGs, available as infantry support weapons on light bipod or on heavier tripod, as vehicle weapons, turret or pintle mounted, primary or co-axial or air-defence.
M240
After extensive operational and technical tests, the US Army type classified the Fabrique Nationale MAG as the M240B 7.62mm medium machine gun as a replacement for the M60 series machine guns. Used as a fixed machine gun, the M240 also replaced the M73/M219 7.62mm and the M85 .50 cal. tank machine guns. The M240B is a ground mounted flexible variant of the M240/M240C/M240E1 coaxial/pintle mounted machine gun used on M2/M3 series Bradley Fighting Vehicles, the M1 series Abrams Main Battle Tank, and the U.S. Marine Corps LAV-series of Light Armored Vehicles. While possessing many of the same basic characteristics as the M60 medium machine gun, the durability of the M240 system results in superior reliability and maintainability when compared to the M60. A similar version of the M240, the M240G, is the standard U.S. Marine Corps medium machine gun. The M240 has a firing rate of 700-1000 spm.
even still the yank version is modern day, we are making the 1982 version of the BRITISH L7A2 GPMG
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