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Hmm. I think you info-bombed some parts of the page there, Ve3. Also you cut out some appropriate reference material.

It's not a revert candidate by any means, but I think there has to be some happy medium to find here. Georgewilliamherbert 07:50, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

New info

Can someone verify the new information added by 71.131.241.44? Ultimaga | Talk 02:44, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just reverted. They conflated the category of Squad Automatic Weapon with Medium Machinegun. Definite mistake. SAWs are in increasingly common usage, but that doesn't change the definition of MMG in any way, despite 71.131.241.44's confusion... Georgewilliamherbert 07:14, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Same as a General Purpose Machine Gun?

Isn't MMG pretty much synonymous with GPMG these days? If so, the pages should be merged. If not, notes should be added about how they're different.

They're definitely not the same as a SAW - that's a synonym for LMG!

My hunch is that GPMG is a British/Commonwealth term, and MMG is a USAian term, although i could be wrong.

-- Tom Anderson 2008-01-28 1819 +000 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.40.81.167 (talk) 18:25, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The term is largely historical at this point - GPMG is the current one (air cooled, multipurpose design - though a specific unit may be fixed mount, tripod, bipod, etc). MMG and LMG were the old terms, with water cooling as one differentiator between them. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 21:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When I was in the Australian Army Cadets 1967-68, we had two types of machine gun, the Vickers-Maxim which was always known as the Medium Machine Gun or MMG and the Bren which was known as the LMG for Light Machine Gun. Andrewa (talk) 14:14, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My impression is that the term "medium machine gun" was introduced once heavy machine gun changed its meaning (from denoting rifle-caliber guns to denoting heavier, anti-materiel guns) This probably happened around when M2 .50 cal Browning was introduced. I'll try to find some sourcing. Someone not using his real name (talk) 22:04, 18 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

M 16

Please explain why it is not necessary? Please explain User:GraemeLeggett's revert? --Tomb of the Unknown Warrior tomb 11:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The description is of a rifle caliber bullet of around 7.62 mm, the M16 is neither a Medium machine gun, nor of that calibre. If it was the intention to mention smaller calibres such as the 5.56 then that is all that is needed; a wikilink to the M16 serves no purpose but to confuse.GraemeLeggett (talk) 12:08, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]