A squad automatic weapon (SAW), also known as a section automatic weapon or light support weapon (LSW), is a man-portable automatic firearm attached to...
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M249 light machine gun (redirect from M249 Squad Automatic Weapon)
The M249 SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon), formally the Light Machine Gun, 5.56 mm, M249, is the United States Armed Forces adaptation of the Belgian FN Minimi...
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vertical grip, carrying handle and integrated bipod. It is one of many squad automatic weapon-type firearms that have been developed from the Armalite AR-15 that...
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multipurpose weapon. Suggestions included use as an automatic rifle and as a designated marksman rifle, a role where it replaced the Squad Advanced Marksman...
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the BAR in the 1950s, when it was intended to be replaced by a squad automatic weapon (SAW) variant of the M14, and as a result the US Army was without...
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– squad automatic weapon – 7.62×39mm: Based on the Soviet RPK squad automatic weapon) M72B1 (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – 1972 – squad automatic...
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support weapon. LMGs firing cartridges of the same caliber as the other riflemen of the same combat unit are often referred to as squad automatic weapons. While...
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The Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) program is a United States military program created in 2017 by the U.S. Army to replace the 5.56mm M4 carbine,...
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ZK-383 (category Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1938)
it until the 1970s. The ZK-383 was originally designed to be a squad automatic weapon much like the British Bren and Soviet DP27, despite it shooting...
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boats and fortifications, usually as an infantry support weapon or squad automatic weapon. The general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) originated with the...
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