Hotspot Engine Plan The machine gun is the core of the infantry squad tactics and is the most important infantry, as long as the main infantry is still the gun, then the status of the machine gun will always be maintained.
Machine guns have a history of nearly 200 years from the mid-19th century to the present. Over the past 200 years, machine guns have been developed several times, and now there are many types, but they are mainly divided into two types: light machine guns and heavy machine guns.
However, many people do not understand how light machine guns and heavy machine guns are divided, and why are they divided into two different types of machine guns? Let's take a look.
The biggest difference between a light machine gun and a heavy machine gun is the difference in weight and bullets used. Light machine guns are lighter in weight and can be carried by individual soldiers, and most light machine guns, like the standard rifles used by the army, use the same bullets.
It differs from a rifle in that it has a longer barrel and a larger magazine. The heavy machine gun refers to the machine gun weighing more than 25 kg, and the bullet it uses is different from the bullet used in the standard rifle, it has a larger caliber, and it is generally used 127mm bullets, some even larger. As for those with a caliber of more than 20 mm, they can generally already be classified as guns.
In addition, the two types of machine guns can also be distinguished by gun carriages, and light machine guns are generally bipodized in consideration of portability. Heavy machine guns, on the other hand, are generally tripods weighing tens of kilograms. Because heavy machine guns have a large caliber, a heavy gun carriage is required to keep them stable.
As for why it is divided into two types, it is because the occasions for use are different.
Nowadays, light machine guns generally belong to the class equipment, and each infantry squad will be equipped with at least one light machine gun.
It is mainly equipped to compensate for the lack of rifle firepower. But because the bullet used is the same as a rifle, its lethality is limited.
The heavy machine gun is a battalion **, which is usually not seen, and it will only be used when encountering a light machine gun uncertain target. Because heavy machine guns have a larger caliber, a longer range and greater power.
The heavy machine gun can also penetrate steel plates more than a dozen millimeters thick at a distance of 800 meters, and it is aimed at light armored vehicles, ** and improvised fortifications.
However, because heavy machine guns have less ammunition and weigh more, they are generally not used in low-intensity combat. Therefore, most of what we usually see are light machine guns.
In addition to light and heavy machine guns, there is also a machine gun called a general-purpose machine gun.
This machine gun has the advantages of heavy machine gun power and long range, and also has the advantages of light machine gun easy to carry and better fire continuity, it can switch back and forth between the two machine guns.
But compared to the serious heavy machine gun, there is still a big gap.
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