Find out more about the LMG series from Heckler & Koch in this blog entry at Strike-Hold!... "We’ve been looking at HK’s 5.56mm rifles and submachine guns lately, but let’s now turn our attention to the heavy-hitters of the family, the 10- and 20-series light machine guns.

A popular concept in military firearms design, development and adoption from the 1950s up to the early 1980s was the idea of modularity and interchangeability of platforms at the squad level. The thinking was that a set of firearms with similar / identical controls, manual of arms, and interchangeable parts would make training and deployment easier and quicker – as well as simplify logistics and repairs at unit level. It certainly sounds good in theory, and looks great on paper, but as the ambitious Stoner 63 system showed, it is very difficult to make a firearm platform that works equally well as a carbine and belt-fed machine gun."

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