Operating the M249 light machine gun Spc. Dawson Caruso, assigned to the 550th MCAS, 261st Med. BN, 44th Med. BDE, takes a defense security position at a situational training exercise lane at Fort ...

The M249 light machine gun also took on a longer name. It is now called the Cased Telescoped Light Machine Gun, or CT LMG. Phillips, who spoke during media day here, May 4, ...

The M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, or SAW, is an individually portable, gas operated, magazine or disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, light machine gun with fixed headspace and quick change ...

November 28, 2012: The U.S. Army finally got its lightweight 5.56mm machine-gun. The new LSAT (Lightweight Small Arms Technology) machine-gun weighs 4.27 kg (9.4 pounds) compared to 8 kg for the ...

The intermediate round strikes a balance between the 5.56 mm round, which is too light; and the 7.62 mm round, which is too heavy, said retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Scales.

A third featured what appears to be a variant of the M249 SAW light machine gun and a shoulder-fired rocket launcher.. Stewart was not surprised to see so much high-end military equipment being ...

Currently, the M249 is the preferred light machine gun of the U.S. Army. It has been in service since 1984 as a lightweight alternative to the heavier M60 machine gun.

By the 1980s, U.S. ground forces started shopping around for a new light machine gun (LMG) to replace the M60 at the lowest unit levels. This was not the first time the services had shopped around ...

US Army Contracting Command has ordered an undisclosed quantity of M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) light machine guns from FN America, in a five-year contract worth $78.71 million. ‘Work locations ...

The US Armed Forces widely uses the M249 SAW light machine gun, as it's tried and tested on the battlefield, but all weapons have limitations, as a new video from West Coast Armory shows. To test ...