Variants of the M240 general-purpose light machine gun may have earned a reputation for ruggedness and reliability on the battleï¬elds of Iraq and Afghanistan, but this 7.62x51mm NATO belt-fed beauty has provided U.S. Army and Marine Corps infantryman with hard-hitting ï¬repower since the 1990s. And, although the weapon is heavier and more complicated than the Vietnam-era M60-series light machine guns it replaced, those drawbacks are far outweighed by the simple fact that it works much better. The United States military ï¬rst took an interest in the weapon as a coaxial machine gun for tanks in the 1970s. It was very...