Home›Machine Guns And Automatic Weapons›Service Status›In ServiceBrowse ByIn ServiceThis dimension marks whether a weapon system is still in active service, retired or still in development. Wikipedia notes that something repurposed or enhanced for war "is termed weaponized," a status that, like active service itself, can change over the life of a weapon system. Browsing by service status separates weapon systems still in use from those retired.FactsIn ServiceSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1884 1In ServiceFilter Results36 entriesWeapon Type or ClassAllGeneral-purpose machine gun (7)Heavy machine gun (5)Light machine gun (11)light machine gun (gas operated, air cooled) (1)Lightweight machine gun (1)Machine gun (7)Recoil-operated machine gun (1)Rotary machine gun (1)Rotary medium machine gun (1)Squad automatic weapon (1)squad automatic weapon, light machine gun (1)CaliberAll.30-06 Springfield (1).303 British (2).50 caliber (1)12.7x108mm (6)14.5x114mm (1)5.45x39mm (2)5.56x45mm NATO (6)6.5x55mm (4)6.5×53mmR (1)6.8x51mm (1)7.5x54mm (1)7.5×54mm French (2)7.5×55mm Swiss (2)7.62x39mm (3)7.62x51mm NATO (10)7.62x54mmR (5)7.65x53mm Argentine (1)7.92x57mm Mauser (3)7x57mm Mauser (2)8x57 mm Patrone 88 (1)8×50mmR Mannlicher (1)8×56mmR (1)8×58mmR (1)Introduced EraAll1884 (1)1889 (1)1902 (1)1933 (1)1934 (1)1938 (1)1939 (1)1942 (1)1948 (1)1949 (1)1952 (1)1957 (1)1958 (2)1959 (1)1960 (1)1961 (1)1963 (1)1968 (2)1969 (1)1971 (1)1973 (1)1974 (1)1975 (1)1977 (2)1982 (1)1984 (1)1987 (1)1988 (1)1989 (1)1994 (1)1997 (1)1998 (1)2002 (1)2008 (1)2010 (1)2019 (1)2025 (1)OperatorAllBritish Army (2)Bundeswehr (2)Imperial Russian Army (2)Israeli Defense Forces (3)Red Army (1)Royal Air Force (1)Royal Navy (2)Soviet Armed Forces (1)United States Air Force (2)United States Armed Forces (1)United States Army (1)United States Navy (1)Waffen-SS (1)Wehrmacht (1)Wars Used InAllAngolan Civil War (2)Bosnian War (3)Burundian Civil War (2)Cambodian Civil War (4)Chinese Civil War (1)Falklands War (3)First Chechen War (2)First Congo War (1)First Indochina War (2)First Matabele War (1)First Sudanese Civil War (1)Gulf War (11)Iran-Iraq War (4)Iraq War (12)Kargil War (1)Korean War (3)Kosovo War (3)Laotian Civil War (4)Mexican Revolution (1)Nigerian Civil War (1)Russian Civil War (2)Russo-Georgian War (5)Russo-Japanese War (2)Russo-Ukrainian War (12)Rwandan Civil War (2)Second Chechen War (3)Second Sudanese Civil War (1)Six-Day War (2)South African Border War (3)Soviet-Afghan War (5)Spanish Civil War (1)Sri Lankan Civil War (2)Syrian Civil War (15)Vietnam War (6)War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) (8)Winter War (1)World War I (2)World War II (4)Yom Kippur War (2)Yugoslav Wars (3)ManufacturerAllACDelco (1)Alkett (1)Barrett Firearms Manufacturing (1)Beretta (1)Carl Gustafs stads gevärsfaktori (2)China North Industries Group Corporation Limited (1)Colt's Manufacturing Company (2)Degtyarev plant (3)Dillon Aero (1)DISA A/S (1)FN Herstal (6)Frigidaire (1)General Dynamics Corporation (2)General Electric (1)General Motors (1)High Standard Manufacturing Company (1)Israel Weapon Industries (1)Kalashnikov Concern (1)Kovrov Machine-Gun Factory (2)Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne (1)Mauser (1)Nexteer Automotive (1)Rheinmetall (1)Rock Island Arsenal (1)Sabre Defence (1)Savage Arms (1)SIG Sauer (1)SNT Motiv (1)Springfield Armory (1)Steyr-Daimler-Puch (1)TRW Inc. (1)Tula Arms Plant (1)U.S. Ordnance (1)Vickers-Armstrongs (1)Vyatskiye Polyany Machine-Building Plant (2)Wilhelm-Gustloff-Stiftung (1)Zastava Arms (3)BrowseCompareSelect all 36AA-52 machine gunIn ServiceAEK-999In ServiceColt Automatic RifleIn ServiceColt IAR6940In ServiceDaewoo Precision Industries K3In ServiceDShKIn ServiceFN MAGIn ServiceFN MinimiIn ServiceGShG-7.62 machine gunIn ServiceIWI NegevIn ServiceKord machine gunIn ServiceKPV heavy machine gunIn ServiceKsp 58In ServiceKulspruta m/39In ServiceM134 MinigunIn ServiceM2 Browning Machine GunIn ServiceM240 Machine GunIn ServiceM249 SAWIn ServiceM250 Light Machine GunIn ServiceM60 Machine GunIn ServiceMadsen machine gunIn ServiceMaxim GunIn ServiceMG 42In ServiceMG3 Machine GunIn ServiceMk 48 machine gunIn ServiceNSV machine gunIn ServicePKMIn ServiceRPD Machine GunIn ServiceRPKIn ServiceRPK-74In ServiceRPL-20In ServiceType 77 heavy machine gunIn ServiceVickers K machine gunIn ServiceZastava M02 CoyoteIn ServiceZastava M72In ServiceZastava M87In ServiceSources1. Wikipedia: Machine guntier 2WikipediaMachine gun, History, Maxim and World War I sectionQuote, Machine gun, History, Maxim and World War I sectionThe first practical self-powered machine gun was invented in 1884 by Sir Hiram Maxim.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.