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[[Image:M249E1.jpg‎|thumb|right|400px|M249-E1 SAW with 200-round ammo drum - First major upgrade of the SAW officially adopted by the U.S. Military (this is a real blank adapted movie gun) - 5.56mm]]
[[Image:M249E1.jpg‎|thumb|right|400px|M249-E1 SAW with 200-round ammo drum - First major upgrade of the SAW officially adopted by the U.S. Military (this is a real blank adapted movie gun) - 5.56mm]]
[[Image:Fn_m249saw_mk2_10-1-.jpg|thumb|right|400px|M249-E2 SAW - upgraded M249 with heat shield and full synthetic Stock - 5.56mm with 200 round ammo drum.]]
[[Image:Fn_m249saw_mk2_10-1-.jpg|thumb|right|400px|M249-E2 SAW - upgraded M249 with heat shield and full synthetic Stock - 5.56mm with 200 round ammo drum.]]
[[Image:Fn_mg_m249para11-1-.jpg|thumb|right|400px|M249 SAW 5.56mm paratrooper version with 200 round ammo drum]]
[[Image:M249ParaWAmmo.jpg|thumb|right|400px|M249 SAW 5.56mm paratrooper version with 200 round ammo drum]]
[[Image:M249ParaModel.jpg|thumb|right|400px|M249 Paratrooper - a real blank adapted movie gun with bipod folded and a  picatinny rail on the top of the receiver - 5.56mm]]
[[Image:M249ParaModel.jpg|thumb|right|400px|M249 Paratrooper - a real blank adapted movie gun with bipod folded and a  picatinny rail on the top of the receiver - 5.56mm]]



Revision as of 08:00, 10 November 2008

The FN Minimi was a combination 'belt fed'/magazine fed' light machine gun, designed to serve in the role of "Squad Automatic Weapon". The SAW was a mobile suppressive fire platform that was light weight and single man transportable - much more so than the venerable M60 (which was always supposed to be a General Purpose Machine Gun, i.e. a crew served weapon). The U.S. Military adopted the first models of the FN Minimi in the 1980s directly as the XM249 or later as the M249 (with some slight design changes in the official U.S. Adopted version. Later versions of the gun, reflected upgrades and design changes that were requested by the U.S. Military.

On a historical note: in the first months of the First Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm 1990), there were not enough M249s to supply the massive troop buildup in the Middle East, so the U.S. Army bought outright a number of unaltered FN Minimis directly from FN, to supplement the weapons. So it is not inaccurate to see first pattern FN Minimis in the hands of U.S. Soldiers who are supposedly issued M249 SAWs since the ARMY mixed the two versions together until the Late 1990s.


The FN Minimi and variants are used by the following actors in the following movies, television series, video games, and anime:


FN Minimi / M249

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FN Minimi 5.56mm with 200-round ammo drum (note 90-degree carry handle and flash hider design).


Film

Games

M249-E1 / M249-E2 / M249 Paratrooper SAW

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M249-E1 SAW with 200-round ammo drum - First major upgrade of the SAW officially adopted by the U.S. Military (this is a real blank adapted movie gun) - 5.56mm
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M249-E2 SAW - upgraded M249 with heat shield and full synthetic Stock - 5.56mm with 200 round ammo drum.
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M249 SAW 5.56mm paratrooper version with 200 round ammo drum
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M249 Paratrooper - a real blank adapted movie gun with bipod folded and a picatinny rail on the top of the receiver - 5.56mm

Film

  • Soldiers in the Secret Lab in Hulk
  • Nick Chinlund as Michael "Slo" Slowenski in Tears of the Sun (paratrooper version with cloth ammo pouch and accessory rail mounted on feed tray cover)

Television

  • A U.S. Marine in CSI: NY (episode: "Heroes")

Video Games

  • Half-Life Only appears in the expansion pack, Opposing Force.

Anime

  • Red Shield personnel in Blood+

Mk 48 Mod 0

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Mk 48 Mod 0 machine gun 7.62x51mm NATO

Film


Video Games