Description
Firearms history
Action: Side Action
Schützenschnur
as a remote or flexible aircraft gun
unlike any we have had before
Original U.S. Vietnam War M60 Rubber Duck Trainer Machine Gun - 3rd Army Training Aids Center Ft. Benning, Ga. U.S. Documents & Books Firearms historyOriginal Item: Only One Available. The M60 machine gun began development in the late 1940s as a program for a new, lighter 7. 62 mm machine gun. It was derived from German machine guns of World War II (most notably the FG 42 and to a lesser extent the MG 42), but it contained American innovations as well. Early prototypes, notably the T52 and T161 bore a close resemblance to both the M1941 Johnson machine gun and the FG 42. It was intended to replace