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Before the M60 became America’s standard machine gun, there was the T44 — an experimental hybrid built from captured German concepts. Engineers combined the action of the FG42 with the belt-feed of ...
The T44 prototype was the earliest attempt to create what would eventually become the M60 machine gun. Borrowing heavily from German WWII designs like the FG42 and MG42, the T44 represents a ...