It is a wonderful video about the most swiftly firepowers light machine guns infamous( M249 ) with excellent accuracy ... thanks ( war stories) channel for sharing...
The only thing i can say they left out was the fact that the M249 can also use AR-15 stile mags similar to the H&K if need be. I was trained on most squad weapons in the US army & can say that the SAW is 1 of my favorite firearms
A Browning Automatic Rifle is a real crowd pleaser. The M-14 as the US Military called it was a Favorite and still is a Favorite for Special Operations Teams Snipers. You don't get up from a round from this gun.
The chauchat was good in the fact it made it in great numbers to the field for half the war. Lewis and BAR were better but they didn't have the numbers and time. Having a Chauchat beats having nothing.
nice to see the Madsen in another gun documentery, just one observation the "D" in madsen is not pronounced in danish so it should be pronounced "massen"
Imagine there is a machine gun in belted 5.56mm that is 5 lbs lighter than a M249 and much less recoil impulse oh wait there is and its 20 years before the M249 aka the Stoner 63. The first beltfed 5.56mm SAW not even addressed.
@@Mongo63a interesting, yeah. Who knows, then? It's not my video, so I couldn't tell ya. Looks like Mexico, Brazil and Portugal adopted it, as well as like 15 other armies adopting variants. Perhaps not "world superpower" armies, but it definitely outsold and outlasted the stoner, I think we could both agree. I'm not trying to say the stoner wasn't revolutionary in the applied concept of being a mobile weapon platform, I'm just guessing why it might not be on the list. "Greatest" is a pretty vague metric, I guess the title of the video leaves a lot open for interpretation/discussion
FN MAG Has been around for almost three quarters of a century and is used in the majority of NATO member countries, but It's not mentioned.It is almost as well known as the Browning M2 50 cal.
I carried the M60 in 1984 as a newbie Combat Engineer. for six months . I did not like it because it was unreliable and it was easy to put together wrong. To change the hot barrel you had to replace it with your hands using gloves. Better to have adopted the MG42.
Before disposing of them in the 60s, the British ran 5 million rounds through a Vickers Maxim. Continuously, the gunners worked in shifts over days. Apart from replacing the barrel many times, it was still perfectly in-spec at the end of the test.
Mostly US hype/drama with some opinions, exploding targets for the toddlers, great propaganda , and marketing vehicle. I thought these died after the cold war ?
No machine gun list is complete without the PKM
Ww2 in a nutshell: German, Italian and Japanese walk into a BAR.
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Understand comment fr 😂😂😂
Made me chuckle 😂😂
🤣🤣man is speaking truth and spittin BARS😂
Thats setting the BAR high
Has Wil Willis found the secret to eternal youth?
This was 2013!
The man doesn't age!
It is a wonderful video about the most swiftly firepowers light machine guns infamous( M249 ) with excellent accuracy ... thanks ( war stories) channel for sharing...
The only thing i can say they left out was the fact that the M249 can also use AR-15 stile mags similar to the H&K if need be. I was trained on most squad weapons in the US army & can say that the SAW is 1 of my favorite firearms
A Browning Automatic Rifle is a real crowd pleaser. The M-14 as the US Military called it was a Favorite and still is a Favorite for Special Operations Teams Snipers. You don't get up from a round from this gun.
BAR and M14 are different weapons.
I like how they made it look like the host was explaining to the rso why each guy was less accurate with the saw lol
No mention of the FN MAG (known in the UK as the GPMG or "jimpy")? Very poor.
FN MAG is the base design for the M240 right?
@@dennisseah9403 The M240 is an FN MAG. It is one of the versions of it.
The General! I loved it.
The title says LIGHT Machine Gun.
The US designation for the same GPMG is the M240. As this video focused on light machine guns, it was not mentioned.
I’ve had pizza with less cheesiness than this.
How did it taste?
@@Yakomoecheesy
The chauchat was good in the fact it made it in great numbers to the field for half the war. Lewis and BAR were better but they didn't have the numbers and time. Having a Chauchat beats having nothing.
The Madsen LMG was not sold in limited numbers due to complexity but due to Danish export policies as a neutral country, by the time.
You forgot the MG34, which was havier and way more expensive to produce than the MG42.
Not way more expensive. I think it was only like $30 more to produce.
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Didn't really care for the closeups or the explosive targets but other than that great video. 🙂
nice to see the Madsen in another gun documentery, just one observation the "D" in madsen is not pronounced in danish so it should be pronounced "massen"
It's a shame that we can't get the Negev to our guys. Light weight, single & full auto and extremely reliable. Oh yeah, Tannerite is so over played!
There's also the ultimate from singapore
Gotta love these semiautomatic mgs 🙄 (maxim, madsen, m27 were never fired on auto in the vid)
Imagine there is a machine gun in belted 5.56mm that is 5 lbs lighter than a M249 and much less recoil impulse oh wait there is and its 20 years before the M249 aka the Stoner 63. The first beltfed 5.56mm SAW not even addressed.
Guess they're focusing on weapons that were used in large numbers/stood the test of time 🤷♂️
@@PurceyMiles The HK21E was never adopted by any major military yet they addressed it.
@@Mongo63a interesting, yeah. Who knows, then? It's not my video, so I couldn't tell ya.
Looks like Mexico, Brazil and Portugal adopted it, as well as like 15 other armies adopting variants. Perhaps not "world superpower" armies, but it definitely outsold and outlasted the stoner, I think we could both agree.
I'm not trying to say the stoner wasn't revolutionary in the applied concept of being a mobile weapon platform, I'm just guessing why it might not be on the list.
"Greatest" is a pretty vague metric, I guess the title of the video leaves a lot open for interpretation/discussion
How come they didn't show the Russian DP machine gun.
The M249 action is a direct descendant of the Lewis.
M60 ?
i dont get it..... the m27 is the same as the m16/m4 no?
French teacher here.👨🏻🏫 "Chaudchat" is pronounced as "SHOW-SHAAH," not "SHOWSHOW." It means "HotCat."
It is French ChauChat pronunciation is "show- shah"
Please add the Israeli made Negev 5.56 light machine gun.
Canadians used the Lewis gun too
Missed the m60
the "saw" is just a combination of the FG.42 and the MG.34
Who th try to skip the 200rd LMG for a 30rd😂
You already have M4 for that role
FN MAG Has been around for almost three quarters of a century and is used in the majority of NATO member countries, but It's not mentioned.It is almost as well known as the Browning M2 50 cal.
So what they already covered the m249
I carried the M60 in 1984 as a newbie Combat Engineer. for six months . I did not like it because it was unreliable and it was easy to put together wrong. To change the hot barrel you had to replace it with your hands using gloves. Better to have adopted the MG42.
Wheres the Stoner?
Covering fire ......Chaingun cha cha
I’m responsible for the changes to the saw. Soft bag and the two rail (mp5) stock is missing.
Maxims are still used in Ukraine right now. Talk about immortal weapons...
Yes alongside Mosin nagant and Ptrs 41 anti tank rifle
Before disposing of them in the 60s, the British ran 5 million rounds through a Vickers Maxim.
Continuously, the gunners worked in shifts over days.
Apart from replacing the barrel many times, it was still perfectly in-spec at the end of the test.
So wåm with the us m240
a portuguese soldier in ww1 stoped an entire regiment using the lewis,
Hopefully the armorer from “RUST” was not in charge.
Except Rambo machine gun
What about the soviet RPD LMG
A maxum is not light.
Neither is a Maxim 😅
@@PurceyMiles yep it didn't quite look right. Oh well
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No disrespect but the vicars and maxim are medium or heavy machine guns. Area denial weapons.
They are hmg.
Ok
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Missed the PKM
That's unfair, a SAW against Jesse James.
You do it all wrong One shooter with a H&K G3 and me with the MG 42me and my brother clean a town DANISH STYLE
Semi auto replicas ruin the history. Most of those are not genuine guns
They all copied the Germans MG42 and their tactics even to this very day.
Americans: gun crazy
Mostly US hype/drama with some opinions, exploding targets for the toddlers, great propaganda , and marketing vehicle. I thought these died after the cold war ?
Pkm
GTFGU! 2-1 IN A Co, 3rd Plt, Weapons squad.
PLEASE, WHEN is this series going to end? These shows are NOT worth re-showing!
These are great speak for yourself.
Then don’t watch it or is that to complex of a concept
Somebody needs to say the truth about slanted drama , an bs marketing to the sheeple. Most viewers are US , so .....yeah.
@@deeejaaay8518 I do! 🤣
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Perfect example of how to make a terrible documentary show.
If these are the greatest machine guns, what is the point in testing them?
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