A scar.

Carry handle

A handle.

A handle to carry it.

Carry handle.

Its a handle...

Well now i just feel silly...
Carrying handle general?

Carrying handle, it's literally just a handle that gives you options for picking up/carrying the gun.

>>11481589
lol retard
but you are an anonymous retard so nobody knows who you are
the best way to get information.

>>11481589
So what's up with the verticle foregrip on the left side of the barrel?

It's the throttle of course.

>>11481589
I'm surprised nobody has noticed the side mounted vert grip (I guess that makes it a horizontal grip?).

>>11481621
clearly it's a horizontal foregrip

>>11481621

I'm guessing it has something to do with taking the gun apart.

>>11481621

for easier handling when the marines need go out on foot to mow down some tangos

like in halo

>>11481626

The youtuber FUNKER uses an M240 and a vert grip attached to the side..

Well I don't know if it's ACTUALLY him, but I'm pretty sure it is.

>Badass as fuck.

>>11481646
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xdj0lBklvM

Here you go sir

>>11481646
Isn't funker just a guy who collects liveleak vids and outs them on you tube for a callofduty audience?

>>11481646

Video related.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRPCNUzkqXk&feature=relmfu

>That field of marijuana being murdered by bullets

OHHHH THE HUMANNNNITYYYY

>>11481665
Pretty much but his early videos were actually his own.

>>11481651

You beat me to it ya sum' bitch.

It's okay though, I still love you.

that handle is used to carry the weapon and remove barrels. if you press a button on the side of the MG and rotate that handle up, the barrel then can slide forward for changing. otherwise, you pull the trigger on the handle which allows it to rotate up for easier carrying. the horizontally mounted grip is for dismounted operations and firing. the 240 is an awkward weapon to fire standing or kneeling. There is no real way to fire it at the shoulder, so under arm firing is really the only utile way to use it. because of the bottom ejecting mechanism, you cant place your hand where it naturally wants to go so you can either grab the bi pod or mount that grip there which is a bit better.

>>11481665
yes. Funker just farms helmet cam footage that's SFW, adds in a "metal" intro and outro and markets it like fuck to Cawadooty kiddies.
Funnily enough, OP does have a point. I don't often see pics and video of the carry handles on MAGs and FALs being used - see pic.

>>11481683
I've seen FPSrussia fire one from the shoulder while walking.

>>11481670
That's why I HATED it when I had to operate the MG3 back in my Bundeswehr days. I takes virtually 2 seconds to empty a 100rd belt and 10 minutes to reload.

it's handel

>>11481691
Dude be high as fuck, thinks he's animal mother 'n shit...

A handle. To make carrying it a bit easier, aswell as making you able to hip fire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGSs17fk20U

>>11481731
don't chat. He's hefting the jimpy, and thus knows that he is a walking funnel of death to any tally cunt he comes across. I mean, look at that face, motherfucker. Try and deny that that man is a god among men - oh wait, you can't. He's ally as fuck and he knows it.

>>11481763
Are you drunk VE?

>>11481814
no lol, why'd you think that? Dumping more machine-gunnery.

It's a shoulder thing that goes up.

How does a soldier become a machine gunner? Do they just randomly assign a few guys MGs or what?

Excuse my fag question, I know nothing about military.

your all retarded, its for changing the barrel
>>not that any Americans would know they never use it for a sustained fire role

>>11481958

they choose the guy they hate the most.

that's the only reason why so many /k/ommandos are specialists.

>>11481651
Anyone else think the METAL \m/ intro is fucking disgraceful?

I'm not American (nor European for you trolls), but still, have some fucking respect

>>11481651

it's just like one of my James Cameron movies!

>>11481958

dunno about soldiers, but over on the marine side you choose what infantry job you want when you go to infantry school, then you have that MOS.

most become standard riflemen, probably 20% become mortar / mg / assault / tow guys.

>>11481991
the yoof of today would think it was boring if it wasn't HAHAHA OORAH METAL YEEAH

Jesus fucking Christ. It's not a carry handle. It's used to easily change barrels when it's being employed in a sustained fire role. That's why you never see anyone carrying it by that handle.

Clearly it's a shoulder thing that goes up

>>11481958
>>11481958
>>11481958
>>11481958

the guys built a bit bigger than everyone else. You aren't going to have the scrawny groundpounders carrying a 22 pound rifle. I was headed towards being one of those, but hooray for sociopathic tendencies :D

what's this one for then

>>11482042

Is a FAL a fucking 240B? No a FAL is an infantry rifle. Your argument is invalid.

>>11482042

it is also a carrying handle you autist. Never held an FAL have you kiddo? For a rifle, its on the heavier side.

when i was in the military they trained us to use the handle to swing the rifle right into tangos faces

>>11482047

the handle, stupid, the handle!

why this one too? it's not attached to the barrel.

>>11481589

That's the handle you use to take the barrel off with. If you have fired the weapon continuously, and you need to change it you don't really want to be grabbing the barrel itself.

>>11481611
>>11481639
>>11481752

Um... No. Your all retarded. If you try to carry a 240 with that fucking thing it will be ass-heavy.

>>11481958

Pretty much, I mean that's how I got to be the M320/M203 gunner. (yes, I have an M320 on my M4 right now)

>>11481958
Be the new guy. Or ask squad leader for it.

Use common sense. herp derp why is the "carry handle" for an M2 Browning on the bottom of the barrel? Because its not a fucking carry handle.

>mfw no face

>>11482015

It's semi-randomly chosen, and generally the newest/lowest ranking soldier gets the biggest/heaviest weapons. Also, if the squad leader feels like one of the guys needs to bulk up, he will assign him a 240B for rifle PT and marches.

I don't think anyone mentioned this, but the handle is also for barrel changes; you can't touch the actual barrel (because herr derr it's hot as FUCK) but you still need some way to manipulate it. There is a little button/lever thing that you pull when you rotate the handle and it disengages the barrel from the receiver.

Lastly, when you reattach the barrel using the handle, it makes a clicking noise as it ratchets in. The number of clicks is a reflection of how well the barrel is headspacing if you don't hear enough of them, that barrel needs to go back to the armorer.

>>11482063

>Post rifles when clearly talking about the handles on Medium/Heavy Machineguns.

Stop being fucking retarded.

>>11482060

it's not THAT heavy you wuss. not heavier than my dad's G-3 when they still had them in service.

>>11482086

>implying the FAL wasn't designed as a squad automatic weapon from the scratch

>>11482108

So was the M16, that doesn't mean it was good at it...

>>11482086

>M240
>Medium/Heavy Machinegun

Hate to break it to you, but it's a LIGHT machine gun.

>>11482088
>>11482088

>for a rifle it's on the heavier side
I'm saying its heavier than other rifles. Compared to say,the weight of a Kalashnikov or AR variant. It's average for a battle rifle.

>>11481958
1) Weapons squad leader loses gunner.
2) assistant gunner becomes gunner.
3) ammo bitch becomes assistant gunner.
4) New dipshit becomes ammo bitch.

That's how it's been in my company anyway.

>>11482122

I think it's technically a MMG or GPMG, but I'm not super sure. Those kinds of designation are vague and ill-defined

>>11482122
Shit's def. a medium bro.

>>11482115

the point stands. if you can't change the barrel with the thing then why have it?

i seriously, SERIOUSLY doubt carrying it by that tiny thing is more comfortable than using the thicker furniture. i get the feeling it would just dangle awkwardly like a suitcase. it's not even like the closed AR-type handle that you can hang it from because it can fall off.

>>11482127

same to you. why do you think carrying it by that is better than grabbing the rifle itself if it's heavy on the arms?

-a SAW is intermediate caliber. support on a SQUADRON LEVEL.
-an LMG is a full caliber, but mobile. support on a PLATOON level.
-an MMG is full caliber, fixed or mounted.
-an HMG is xbox caliber, almost a cannon(in ther words, a fiddy cal), fixed, mounted or wherever the fuck it is.

that's how they taught me.

It's the shoulder thing that goes up OP. You take it off of the barrel and move it back to enable the baby seeking bullet tracking mode.

>>11481621
Superior

>>11482222

superior

Looks like a small section of iraqi kids...

>>11482122

Oh THATS why they're mounted....

"The M240B is the standard infantry medium machine gun of the U.S. Army "

M240B is a Medium Machingun.

Blow me.

>>11482195
SAW is more of a role rather than a weapon classification. The M249 is both an LMG and a SAW. Also, an LMG is an intermediate caliber as in 5.56 A MMH or more commonly called a GPMG is a full caliber machine gun, it doesn't matter if it's mounted or not.

>>11482269

what's GP for?

>>11482255
Eh, you can mount a SAW as well.

The defining characteristics of what classifies a light/medium/heavy machine gun have changed over time somewhat but these days SAW = LMG, M240B = MMG, M2 = HMG.

>>11482308

general purpose

>>11482315

gotcha. that's awfully vague, don't you think?

>>11482312

>mounting a SAW

>anno Domini two thousand ten and two

That was a NJP offense to go outside the wire with less than a 240B when I was deployed

>>11482329

Seconded.

>>11482325

like I said in >>11482132 the designations are vague and ill-defined. It's analogous to fighter aircraft "generations"

>>11481905

>Drum magazine
>Eotech close combat optic
>Barrel shroud

It's every American liberal's worst nightmare.

It's used for changing the barrel.
It's also a handle.

>>11482346

i'm an american liberal and i think it's pretty sexy

>>11482346

you forget

>nazi gun

>>11482329

here we go

>late 2000s, afghaniland
>running saws on nearly every vehicle, including our lead 7ton
>such is life in marine corps.

>>11481905
What is that thing on the end of the barrel?

Captcha: ofteech bawcock

>>11482404

flash dispersor/hider

and sound amplificator for psychological warfare.

>>11481589
that is my pic, lol...
i took it in kurdistan, it was my 240.
here is another from that day, lol...

>>11482436

lol... lol... lol... lol...
lol...

lol...

>>11482444

it's like reading drugs...

>>11482436
>school's out
>time for the 240B after-school program

>>11482329
Yeah, it's a shitty situation but it happens from time to time.

>>11482165
Carrying it like a suitcase is actually the fastest way to move with it sometimes. If you've got to pick it up and move quickly it works like a charm. It's also a lot sturdier than you're making it out to be. Every part of the M240B is pretty beefy. . . only part I've ever had break was the buttstock.

Most comfortable way to move around with it is over-the-shoulder but I've gotten bitched out 100% of the times I've tried that outside of mountain warfare school.

>>11482329
Cool story

>>11482454
they wanted candy and soccer balls, that shit got out of hand pretty fast most of the time...

>>11482436

our situation was much more urbanized

>>11482460

never said it would break, but i figure the last thing i want is this thing hanging from a small balance point.

>>11482463

>dat turret

'06?

>>11482500
when we were working in mosul it was like that as well, so most of the time it was urban, but we were allowed to do missions all over our brigades AO...

>>11482469

Civil Affairs here, we most of our ANA/P officers had rubber hose for keeping HA distributions orderly.

>My face when unruly kids are getting nailed by the metal nozzle on a garden hose

>>11482469

A gunner in my unit tossed the kids some dip one time.

They thought it was candy (it was flavored) and started eating it.

>godammitcomrade.jpg

Pic mostly unrelated

>>11482510
dunno

Did anyone else have ELCAN sights for their 240s?

>>11482555

Had an Afghan kid steal my bottle of dip spit when I turned my back to it. Fucker runs like hell and starts drinking it.

Needless to say, howling with laughter.

>>11482592
we did, but i hated them and kept mine in the platoon box, like the majority of our guys in my unit...

>>11482605

we left ours in the armory

>dat pintle

standard issue, sir... *cough*

>>11482620
back in mosul our armorer was a douche, if it was issued to the platoon it stayed there as our responsibility, he argued that we may need it sometime and in all honesty we were usually away from HHC...

>>11482555

>Giving Afghani-kids anything
>youjustwentfullretard.jpg

Jokes aside, while I sometimes felt like it might be nice to give kids small stuff, we learned pretty early on that if you give a kid something once, every kid with 500 m is going to sense this, and come running to get a piece of the action, and you´ll soon find yourself surrounded and outnumbered by nosy kids all begging for anything, everytime you visit that spot.
When we did hand out clothes or other things, sent by family back home, by soldiers in camp or gifts from CIMIC, we´d usually hand them in crates to the local village/area elders, and then accompany them/him when they hand them out to the locals.
Shoes were particularly popular

Pic related, it´s snooty Afghani-kids

hey LavaMonster, here's a better pic of one of our SAWs

>>11482620
Jesus christ, that barrel droops like a flaccid dick.

>>11482676

>>11482669

Who else lol'd at Afghan boys/men wearing girly ass shit like that pink backpack? I don't know if Iraqis were as effeminate.

>>11482691

I think it has more to do with being poor. The two Iraqis boys that lived next to our JSS were bro-tier. They bought us all kinds of shit at the bazaar, ie whiskey, beer, etc.

I still never told them my real name

>>11482679
>>11482676

haters gonna hate


out navy eod buddies had m60s on their trucks. not high speed m60e4s, but vietnam looking rust machines. this was only 5 years ago.

>>11482346
>that picture
but theyre so close

>>11481646
He is a canadian soldier. The first few videos are his, but the newer ones are sourced.

>>11482714

>dat rust

SAW's seemed to rust faster than any other weapon we used. Did you ever notice that?

Jesus christ you retards, it's for changing the barrel.

>>11482691
that was true in iraq as well.
>>11482710
you are correct, it has to do with being poor...

>>11482727
Lefty looks like he's ready to mongle some cock

>>11482729

we've already established all its uses

This is now a picture thread.

>>11482737

He was about 2 firefights short of a 1k yd stare, to be honest

Anyone here still in the service about to deploy? I have a SAW ammo pouch just like in >>11482714 that I'd mail to you free of charge. I have no use for it.

>>11482738

>this is now a tripfag jerkoff thread

I wish I had some better pics of a charlie from the BFV.

>>11481929
this may sound dumb, but all the clips on the belt of ammo- how do they end up the same side of the gun as the spent casing?

>>11482755

egads! People posting on topic pictures on /k/ ?

>IMPOSSIBRU!!

>>11482714
Yes, that was Navy EOD with PFC Hacket written on the side of the stock.
Get the fuck out of here, kid.

>mfw Navy PFC

>>11482766

>clips

clipsclipsclipsclipsclipsclipsclipsclipsclipsclipscli--

sorry, my reaction

They are called links, and they eject separately from the brass. Links eject to the shooter's right, brass ejects downward.

>>11482766
feeder paws kick them out that way...

>>11482782
>>11482781

thank-ye both

>>11482777

That's not an M60, that's my issued saw. I posted it as a response to paths super high speed,low drag army saw.

These are the navy guys i mentioned. With one of their m60s mounted on the truck.

Not me in pic, but friend of mine

>>11482777

>Implying an m249 is an M60

Get the fuck out.

I'm not sure who's M60 this was. If I had to guess, I'd say Navy

>>11482777

Not knowing the difference between a SAW and an M60.

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>11482810
>>11482820

You have no reading comprehension.
I said nothing about what type of weapon it was.
I was stating the he said it was an EOD Navy carried weapon with PFC written on the side.

Jesus christ /k/ is stupid.

How come the US went for M60 first, then only later switched to M240? I mean, they were designed at around the same time, and entered production at roughly the same time (M60, '57 and MAG '58, if wikipedia is to be believed)

>>11482866

he was not referring to the weapon in the post's picture.

Go to sleep soon, school is early tomorrow. Pay attention in English class.

>>11482868

I would guess lobbying, the M60 was a US design

>>11482866

>MFW you tell me about reading comprehension
>MFW he never said his pic was an EOD weapon

You blew, just say, "Misread, I'm ignorant, my bad," and be done with it.

July 14th bridge

>>11482874
>>11482882


PFC HACKET MAD UP IN THIS BITCH.

>>11482910

i aint even mad yo

>>11482910

both posts are within the same minute. That would literally be impossible. Keep digging...

Alright, it's time for my afternoon 2 mile, I'll be back on later /k/omrades

>>11482910

Not mad, just astonished a CoD kid doesn't know the difference between a 60 and a 240. They don't look similar in any way. Then there's the whole failure to reading comprehension, being corrected, and then insisting on still being right despite everything to the contrary.

Anyway, back to discussing the topic of this thread with people who have real world experience with the weapons mentioned.