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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Browning Automatic RifleProof that even John Moses Browning's failures could still be incredibly successful, the BAR was originally designed as a "walking fire" gun, a WW 1 concept for an automatic weapon that could be fired from the hip by a soldier crossing no man's land to support his comrades. In the event, the BAR was vastly too heavy for such an application (due to it using the full-power .30-06 cartridge; it would be decades later before "intermediate" cartridges appeared and made this concept workable in the form of the assault rifle), being twice the weight of an M1 Garand; it was instead employed as a light machine gun, used to give the infantry squad additional firepower and range. Despite being widely adopted, it had a number of flaws as a support weapon; in particular, it lacked any facility for changing barrels quickly or accepting a belt feed, instead only able to use 20-round magazines. On top of that it it was too light a weapon to use in this role - controlling it while firing fully automatic was relatively difficult. This effectively made it a very heavy battle rifle rather than a true light machine gun. In spite of these shortcomings, it continued in service with the US military right into the Vietnam war, eventually being replaced by the M60; the US National Guard continued to use it into the 70s, and some countries continued to use the BAR all the way into the 1990s. The modern FN MAG/M240 is also based in part on the BAR's action, except flipped upside down and adapted to belt-feed. |