[Criminal Number 18F]

Bring back the BAR-1918!!

Actually, we did, just improved (grin). The FN-MAG machine gun was created by Dieudonne Saive by flipping a BAR lock mechanism upside down, so that a belt feed on the top was possible.

The Army rejected the MAG because it was "Not Invented Here," but finally, thanks to the tankers(!), saw the light, and the M240B/M240G is an Americanised FN-MAG.

But you can think of it as a belt fed BAR (grin)

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Cannoneer No. 4]

The tankers were desperate for a coax that would run. The old M-219 was the worst POS since the Chauchat. Field stripping it and getting it back together was an all-day affair. We were getting waxed in NATO tank gunnery competitions, partly because we couldn't service the coax targets. I think it was the Brits who first modified a MAG to serve as a coaxial machine gun, and we stole the idea from them.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

The tankers were desperate for a coax that would run. The old M-219 was the worst POS since the Chauchat. Field stripping it and getting it back together was an all-day affair. We were getting waxed in NATO tank gunnery competitions, partly because we couldn't service the coax targets. I think it was the Brits who first modified a MAG to serve as a coaxial machine gun, and we stole the idea from them.