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FN MAG

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The FN MAG is a Belgian general purpose machine gun designed in the early 1950s by Ernest Vervier and Dieudonne Saive at Fabrique Nationale. It entered production in 1958 and remains in service today across more than eighty countries. The weapon fires the 7.62 by 51 millimeter NATO cartridge from a belt feed and combines a locking mechanism modeled on the Browning M1918 automatic rifle with a feed system derived from the German MG 42. It is gas operated, features a quick change barrel for sustained fire, and has an adjustable cyclic rate between 650 and 1,000 rounds per minute. More than 200,000 units have been produced, including licensed production in Canada, Britain, Argentina and India, and it is used both as an infantry weapon and mounted on armored vehicles. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Caliber
7.62x51mm NATO 1
Service Status
In Service 2
Weapon Class
General-purpose machine gun 3
Introduced Year
1958 1
Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category)
Machine Gun 3
Connections

Operated By

British Army, Armed Forces and Units
Source Wikipedia: FN MAG
Israeli Defense Forces, Armed Forces and Units
Source Wikipedia: FN MAG

Used In

Burundian Civil War, Wars
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Falklands War, Wars
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Gulf War, Wars
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Iraq War, Wars
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Nigerian Civil War, Wars
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Russo-Ukrainian War, Wars
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Six-Day War, Wars
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South African Border War, Wars
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Sri Lankan Civil War, Wars
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Syrian Civil War, Wars
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Vietnam War, Wars
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War in Afghanistan (2001-2021), Wars
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Yom Kippur War, Wars
Source Wikipedia: FN MAG
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Business Atlas: FN Herstal, manufactured by there.
Sources
1. Wikidata: FN MAG
Wikidata Q842066, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
2. Wikipedia: FN MAG
  • caliber
    cartridge = 7.62×51mm NATO
  • Service-status attribute (fn-mag)
    It entered production in 1958 and remains in service today across more than eighty countries.
  • Used In: South African Border War, infobox wars field: 'South African Border War'
  • Used In: Six-Day War, infobox wars field: 'Six-Day War'
  • Used In: Nigerian Civil War, infobox wars field: 'Nigerian Civil War'
  • Used In: Vietnam War, infobox wars field: 'Vietnam War'
  • Used In: Yom Kippur War, infobox wars field: 'Yom Kippur War'
  • Used In: Falklands War, infobox wars field: 'Falklands War'
  • Used In: Sri Lankan Civil War, infobox wars field: 'Sri Lankan Civil War'
  • Used In: Gulf War, infobox wars field: 'Gulf War'
  • Used In: Burundian Civil War, infobox wars field: 'Burundian Civil War'
  • Used In: War in Afghanistan (2001-2021), infobox wars field: 'War in Afghanistan (2001?2021)'
  • Used In: Iraq War, infobox wars field: 'Iraq War'
  • Used In: Syrian Civil War, infobox wars field: 'Syrian civil war'
  • Used In: Russo-Ukrainian War, infobox wars field: 'Russo-Ukrainian War'
  • Operated By: British Army, Wikipedia article text
    The L7A2, general-purpose machine gun, replaced the L7A1 in service with the British Army.
  • Operated By: Israeli Defense Forces, Wikipedia article text
    (top) and two FN MAG (bottom) *: Used by the Israel Defense Forces alongside IMI Negev and Negev NG7.
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3. Wikipedia: FN MAG
  • Lead, first sentence
    Belgian 7.62 mm general-purpose machine gun
  • Lead, production
    It first entered production in 1958
View the Source
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