{"id":26700,"date":"2025-03-31T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/negev-7-israeli-scales-up-to-a-7-62-nato-machine-gun\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T08:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:00:59","slug":"negev-7-israeli-scales-up-to-a-7-62-nato-machine-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/negev-7-israeli-scales-up-to-a-7-62-nato-machine-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Negev 7: Israeli Scales up to a 7.62 NATO Machine Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k72qs0kRCcA?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Full video including range footage is available on the History of Weapons &#038; War streaming app:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/forgottenweapons.vhx.tv\/videos\/negev-7-4k\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/forgottenweapons.vhx.tv\/videos\/negev-7-4k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Israeli Negev machine gun had a rather long development cycle, beginning in 1985 but not seeing final completion and issue until 1997. Once on the market, it proved to be a pretty successful weapon, used by the Israeli military and also a number of export client around the world. In 2012, IMI released an improved newer version, the Negev 7. This was made exclusively as a 7.62mm NATO caliber gun, as opposed to the original Negev which was only made in 5.56mm NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Sellier &#038; Bellot for giving me access to this modern machine gun to film for you!<\/p>\n<p>Full video on the original Negev in 5.56mm:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cxrPiSvkEVI\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/cxrPiSvkEVI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full video including range footage is available on the History of Weapons &#038; War streaming app:https:\/\/forgottenweapons.vhx.tv\/videos\/negev-7-4k The Israeli Negev machine gun had a rather long development cycle, beginning in 1985 but not seeing final completion and issue until 1997. Once on the market, it proved to be a pretty successful weapon, used by the Israeli&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/negev-7-israeli-scales-up-to-a-7-62-nato-machine-gun\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Negev 7: Israeli Scales up to a 7.62 NATO Machine Gun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}