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Any air-cooled machine gun with a caliber no greater than .30 inch (7.6 mm).
‘At first, they will carry only assault rifles and some light machine guns in a country where rocket-propelled grenade launchers are sometimes displayed at funerals.’
‘It can be mounted on almost any weapon, but is most commonly found on rifles and light machine guns.’
‘One of them cleaned and checked a captured light machine gun while the others ate the remnants of a thin chicken stew cooked several hours earlier.’
‘‘Their weapons were more powerful than our Kalashnikovs,’ said the officer yesterday, adding that the ‘unknown men fired mortars, explosives and light machine guns from four directions’.’
‘This brings up the possibility of burst fire sniping with machine guns, a now dead technique once employed quite effectively by the Japanese in World War II with scope sighted light machine guns.’
‘In 1916, the Marines adopted the King armored car, armed with a light machine gun.’
‘Each soldier is in charge of a particular weapon: light machine guns, mortars, anti-aircraft guns.’
‘Weapon variants include a carbine, a special compact version to increase portability, a designated marksman version to engage distant targets, and a light machine gun to engage area targets.’
‘She will fly with three door-gunners in the back manning M - 60 light machine guns and carrying flares to deflect missiles.’
‘The question now was where to employ the heavy machine guns to best support and reinforce the light machine guns and strengthen King Company's defense.’
‘On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.’
‘The range of weaponry is quite wide, from a knife through pistols, light machine guns and assault rifles to automatic shotguns, sniper rifles, grenade launchers and hand grenades.’
‘He was dressed in urban combat fatigues and armed with a light machine gun.’
‘British infantry - believed to include Royal Marines - are to be equipped with a weapon described by Defence Procurement Minister Lord Bach as ‘one of the most effective light machine guns in the world.’’
‘The British assault class also wields a curious looking primary armament, the Bren light machine gun, which can deliver an entire clip with considerable accuracy and very little reticule drift, even during a prolonged burst of fire.’
‘The camp, between August 1 and 13, also saw young recruits introduced to weapon handling, while elder cadets got to fire a light machine gun.’
‘Some of the light machine guns also found their way into the hands of collectors mostly as ‘DEWATs’ (deactivated war trophies).’
‘‘They were made to stand in a long line and five or six of our fighters used light machine guns to kill them,’ the commander told a French news agency.’
‘These included a shortened carbine, a sniper rifle, a belt-fed light machine gun, and a heavy-barreled squad automatic weapon.’
‘In one corner, there's a pile of AK - 47s and light machine guns.’