SAW or LSW

The Squad automatic weapons or Light Support Weapons are squad's weapons used to perform

suppressive or covering fire. Generally they are light, use the same kind of ammo's of the standard rifles,

have a bipod, a quick change barrel system, they are capable of sustained fully-automatic fire and they tipically fire from an open bolt.

Often they use same part of the standard rifles, and sometimes they are just standard rifle whith a heavier barrell,

one of the first examples of this kind of weapon was the Stoner 63, which can be transformed with the appropriate kits into a carbine, an automatic rifle or a SAW.

 

One the first examples of LSW was the Danish Madsen, in a certain way the Chauchat was a LSW weapon too, as was the BAR M1918A2.

 

Of course this is just a little table, and a lot of other weapon are missing, in this category there are a lot of

excellent weapons like: IWI Negev NG 5, Howa type 20, CETME Ameli, H&K MG4E and so long...

 

I flagged as American the FN 249 that's the American version of the original Belgian FN Minimi.

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