Talk:Squad automatic weapon

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1. M249 is downsized M240 General Purpose Machine gun, not heavy barrelled Assault rifle.

2. Both M249 and RPK uses same ammo as Assault rifles (RPK-74->AK-74, RPK->AK-47 resp. M249->M16)

3. Noticed FN FAL assault rifle is no related with M249, but with M240, what is a FN MAG machine gun licensed and manufactured in USA.

I just saw this

"Therefore, in many modern armies, military doctrine requires the ordinary soldier to avoid using his weapon's fully automatic mode "

Red Army doctrine until the 1980s was for fully automatic fire. Do they not count as modern?