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The FN MINIMI, one of the most popular modern 5.56 mm light machine guns among NATO countries.
The FN MINIMI, one of the most popular modern 5.56 mm light machine guns among NATO countries. The Minimi (short for French: Mini Mitrailleuse; “mini machine gun” is a Belgian 5 556x45mm NATO, standardized under STANAG 4172 is a Rifle cartridge. The North Atlantic Treaty
MG4 of the German Army.
MG4 of the German Army. The MG4 is a belt-fed 556 mm Light machine gun designed and developed by the German company Heckler & Koch. The German Army (Deutsches Heer heɐ) is the land component of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The .303 Bren gun. British and Commonwealth LMG; in service with the former from 1938 to 1991.
The . 303 Bren gun. The Bren (from '''Br'''no, the Czechoslovak city of design and '''En'''field, the location of the British Royal Small Arms Factory British and Commonwealth LMG; in service with the former from 1938 to 1991.

Light machine gun (commonly abbreviated LMG) is a category comprising machine guns that are generally lighter than other machine guns of the same period, and usually designed to be carried by an individual soldier, but sometimes with an assistant. For other uses of the phrase see Machine Gun (disambiguation. Modern light machine guns are often chambered for smaller calibers than medium machine guns, and are mostly considerably lighter and more compact. The term caliber or calibre designates the interior Diameter of a tube or the exterior diameter of a wire or rod A medium machine gun or MMG, in modern terms usually refers to a belt-fed Automatic firearm firing a full-power Rifle cartridge and

Usually, a light machine gun is intended to act as a support weapon, in that it can generate a greater volume of continuous automatic fire than the usual firearms carried by infantry soldiers, at the cost of greater weight and higher ammunition consumption. An automatic firearm is a Firearm that automatically extracts and ejects the fired cartridge case and loads a new case usually through the energy of the fired Ammunition, often referred to as ammo, is a generic term derived from the French language la munition which

It is possible to fire a light machine gun from the hip or on the move, but usually they are fired from a prone position, especially when using a bipod. A bipod is a support device that is similar to a Tripod or Monopod, but with two legs Early light machine guns (especially those derived from automatic rifles, such as the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle) were sometimes magazine-fed. The BAR (short for Browning Automatic Rifle is a family of American 7 A magazine is an Ammunition storage and feeding device within or attached to a repeating Firearm. Some LMG's, such as the Russian RPK, are modifications of existing assault rifle designs. The RPK ( Ruchnoy Pulemyot Kalashnikova, Russian: Ручной пулемёт Калашникова or "Kalashnikov hand-held machine gun" An assault rifle is a Selective fire Rifle or Carbine (not to be confused with a semi-automatic only replica firing Ammunition with muzzle Adaptations generally include a larger magazine, heavier barrel to resist overheating, more robust action to support sustained fire, and often a bipod. Modern light machine guns are designed to fire more rounds of a smaller caliber ammunition and as such tend to use a belt of ammunition; this allows them to fire for longer periods of time without the need to reload. A belt is a device that holds cartridges adjacent to each other in a single row for feeding into a Firearm, typically a Machine gun. Other modern light machine guns, such as the FN MINIMI, are capable of firing from both an ammunition belt or a detachable box-type magazine.

Light machine guns are often used as squad automatic weapons. For the weapon known in British Forces service as the LSW see SA80 For the weapon known in American service as the SAW see M249 A squad automatic

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Selected examples

A Romanian soldier aids a United States Marine in clearing an RPK during the weapons familiarization phase of Exercise Rescue Eagle 2000 at Babadag Range, Romania, on July 15, 2000.
A Romanian soldier aids a United States Marine in clearing an RPK during the weapons familiarization phase of Exercise Rescue Eagle 2000 at Babadag Range, Romania, on July 15, 2000. Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania

These were either exclusively light machine guns, had a light machine gun variant or were employed in the light machine gun role with certain adaptations:

1900s–1920s

1950s–1970s

1970s-present

See also

A general purpose machine gun ( GPMG) in concept is a multi-purpose weapon a Machine gun intended to fill the role of either a Light machine gun or A medium machine gun or MMG, in modern terms usually refers to a belt-fed Automatic firearm firing a full-power Rifle cartridge and A heavy machine gun refers to either a larger-caliber high-power Machine gun or one of the smaller medium-caliber (rifle caliber machine guns meant for prolonged firing from
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