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Joe Mantegna takes a look at FN's famous belt-fed machine gun used globally and the specific model adopted by the U.S. military.
Joe Mantegna takes a look at FN's famous belt-fed machine gun used globally and the specific model adopted by the U.S. military.
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S14, EP5 "Evolution of Battlefield Weapons"Host Joe Mantegna joins SIG Sauer to discover the replacement for the workhorse M4 carbine; SIG Sauer's M7's aim is to overcome the limitations of the 5.56 and 7.62 NATO rounds.
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