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Zitat:Textron Unveils Ultra-Light 7.62mm Machine Gun Effort
TAMPA, Fla. — Textron Systems showed off its newest effort to develop an ultra-light 7.62mm machine gun at the 2015 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference.
The new MG is being designed to weigh 14.5 pounds – more than eight pounds lighter than the lightest version of the M240.....
.....The result would be a 14.5-pound 7.62mm case-telescoped machine gun, compared to the Army’s M240B machine gun which weighs 27 pounds. The new, lightweight version — the M240L — weighs about 22 pounds.....