50 Caliber Machine Gun ... fed from either the left or right side. A disintegrating metallic link-belt is used to feed the ammunition into the weapon. This gun is has a back plate with spade ...

or an external load of 13,000 pounds (5,900 kg) on the single-point sling hook. The CH-53A is equipped with a pair of 7.62 mm M60 machine guns that point out to each side of the fuselage.

wrote in his research paper that it also eliminates the possibility of a decrease in the strength and accuracy of the barrel due to repeated barrel loading. The current conventional machine guns ...