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Old 10-28-2010, 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by perardua View Post
It's better than a .50 purely because I can carry and fire it without assistance! Apparently Heckler & Koch is doing an update of the GPMG for the British forces, made from significantly lighter materials and with a picatinny rail on the top cover, or at least so I read in the various trade magazines we have in the crew room.
FN USA has built a version of the M240, which I believe is in limited issue now, which has a good portion of the steel parts replaced by lighter titanium. It's on my pages, and it's a lot lighter than a standard M240.
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