In 2023, a .50 calibre heavy machine gun went missing from an Army base in Wiltshire. At least 40 weapons have been either lost or stolen from military HQs since 2018, along with thousands of ...

When the IRA unit returned to a carpark at St Patrick’s Church to dismantle the weapon, they were ambushed by 12 SAS members armed with a general purpose machine gun and G3 assault rifles.

The future King then lay down in the grass and joined a group causing a deafening racket by blasting 7.62m General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMGs). The prince said: "That sounds awesome." ...

Prince William on Salisbury Plain, during his visit to the Welsh Guards on Nov. 26, 2024. Stuart C. Wilson/Getty The regiment has also been carrying out overseas operations in the Falkland Islands ...

“He fired a few rounds and hit. I heard the ping,” he said. The prince was later invited to join a group firing 7.62m General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMGs), and said: “That sounds awesome”.

William also joined a group firing 7.62m General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMGs). This time the prince - who was also sporting ear defenders - lay down to grab hold of the gun and rattled off a ...

The LWMMG, also known as the RM338, is a medium machine gun chambered for the .338 NM cartridge. The weapon employs a novel system of operation known as short recoil, impulse averaging (SRIA).

Although M240 entered the US Army in 1977 as a co-axial tank gun, it slowly found more applications in the 1980s and 1990s as it has also been adopted by the US Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.

Type: General purpose machine gun Year introduced: 1957 Manufacturer: Saco Defense Firing action: Gas-operated open bolt Caliber and feed: 7.62x51mm NATO; Disintegrating link belt of various counts ...

Before WWI, the primary form of transport in war was the horse. They continued to be used through WWII, as even the mighty German Army continued to field regiments of soldiers, each on one of its ...