Re: BREN/BAR THOUGHTS

When I was a battery commander, artillery units habitually mounted the
M60
on tripods for battery defence. Fact is, we used it on the tripod a lot
more
than we did on the bipod.
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Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: BREN/BAR THOUGHTS

>
> GPMG-a NATO type  designation for a belt fed tipod mounted  GENERAL
> PURPOSE MACHINE GUN (usually a LMG with a folded bipod  using the
> tripod mounting and maybe  special sighting equipment, like an MG-34
or
> MG-42.
>
> supposedly there was a provision to mount an M-60 in this manner too,
> but i never saw it done.
>
> i think the UK were the first ones to actually come up with the
> classification GPMG for a tripod mounted LMG.
>
> DAWGIE
>