{"id":5204,"date":"2017-12-29T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T12:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/29\/machine-gun-terminology-lmg-mmg-saw-lsw-hmg-gpmg\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:12:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:12:45","slug":"machine-gun-terminology-lmg-mmg-saw-lsw-hmg-gpmg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/29\/machine-gun-terminology-lmg-mmg-saw-lsw-hmg-gpmg\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Gun Terminology &#8211; LMG, MMG, SAW, LSW, HMG, GPMG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z8aAXsJRzTM?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we will look at the various different categories of machine guns &#8211; what makes them, why they exist, and what their place in military history is. Specifically&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Automatic Rifle: Shoulder or hip fired, limited magazine capacity, minimal sustained fire capacity. Examples: M1918 BAR, Chauchat.<\/p>\n<p>LMG: Magazine fed, rifle caliber, bipod fired. Examples: Bren, Madsen, Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>HMG: Belt fed, usually water cooled, minimal portability, fired from tripod only. Examples: Maxim, Vickers, Hotchkiss 1914. Evolved into guns of caliber 12.7mm &#8211; 20mm, like the M2 and DShK.<\/p>\n<p>MMG: Air cooled, tripod fired only, belt fed. Examples: Browning 1919A4, SG-43.<\/p>\n<p>GPMG: Bipod or tripod fired, belt fed, rifle caliber, quick-change barrel. Examples: MG42, PKM, M240.<\/p>\n<p>SAW\/LSW: Intermediate caliber, magazine fed, bipod fired. Examples: L86A1, FN Minimi, RPK.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons Today we will look at the various different categories of machine guns &#8211; what makes them, why they exist, and what their place in military history is. Specifically&#8230; Automatic Rifle: Shoulder or hip fired, limited magazine capacity, minimal sustained fire capacity. Examples: M1918 BAR, Chauchat. LMG: Magazine fed, rifle&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/29\/machine-gun-terminology-lmg-mmg-saw-lsw-hmg-gpmg\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Machine Gun Terminology &#8211; LMG, MMG, SAW, LSW, HMG, GPMG<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5205,"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-5204","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\/5204","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=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14521,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions\/14521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}