>take an FG42
>add a belt feed
>somehow make it over twice as heavy (4kg -> 10kg)
>make it flimsy as shit, receiver fucking cracks
How did americans manage to ruin such a great gun to such extent?
>take an FG42. >add a belt feed. >somehow make it over twice as heavy (4kg -> 10kg)
The FG42 was an ultra-fragile automatic rifle. The M60's real competition was the MG3 which it managed to be a kilo lighter than.
The late model FG42 has basically no almost no fragile parts while still only weighing under 5kg and being made in 1945 germany with all of it's material constraints. And how did they achieve that? They quite simply just didn't fuck up with the mechanical design.
right...
Its based on the mg-42, not fg.
>Its based on the fg-42, not mg.
ftfy anon. no need to thank me.
The M60 was not a bad gun.
Yes it fucking was.
wrong
>make it flimsy as shit, receiver fucking cracks
You mean
>Shoot them until the receivers are battered up from firing something in excessive of 80,000 to 100,000 rounds
>Hand them to the nasty girls because reserve material
>They cry because they jam and crack from being held together by the armorer's thoughts and prayers plus fuck tape
The FG42 specifically had a buffer to stop the bolt hammering into the receiver every fucking shot. Americans didn't think that necessary, just make the receiver heavy as fuck from thick milled steel and let the bolt hammer into it all day it'll hold fine...
FG42s didn't take tens of thousands of rounds from Vietnam to Gulf War.
>no buffer
Lying little nogunz gay, back to where you came from.
This is one of 6 ways we know you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Adding plastic shit instead of wood and metal was mistake.
Shutup grandpa no one cares about muh SOVL, it’s about saving weight and being more weather resistant.
The early models has the trigger group and receiver held together by a single leaf spring. It fell off fairly easily.
How that managed to get past testing is beyond me.
Step 1.
Don't know how any of it works.
Step 2.
Forbid all competition from foreign design.
Step 3.
Ignore reliability and durability for a unrealistic weight limit, don't test said design.
Step 4
Sunk cost and national embarrassment.
The M60 and M16 would have gotten thousands of Americans killed in WW3.
>M60
maybe, PKM chads stay winning
>M16
no
>M16
>rifle that jammed a fuck load in limited a insurgency conflict
>required special powder made in only one plant
>no NATO resupply
There's a reason why the M16 wasn't allowed in Europe.
M60's served for about 50 years in US service. The Germans got like 3 years of FG-42 service and that's being generous. We also had ammo for our guys.