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Old April 23rd, 2008, 04:09 AM
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Default Re: 30 cal machine gun

Robert,

That weapon in the top photo is was we called a stinger, they were made up from aircraft guns with a BAR bipod (plenty of those laying around) and an M1 stock.

They had a hell of a rate of fire, two or three times faster that our ground mount light .30's.
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