Talk:Prisma Gorgon/@comment-174.20.229.168-20150119142421/@comment-49.149.89.37-20150121145058

Actually, most (well, most western) machineguns dont even run mags anymore. Most western machine guns run off belt feeds (the M249 I used back in the Marines typically had 200 round nondisintegrating belt links, same with the M240 and M60, but those guys got to carry heavier ammo. Those could just be extended too, but 200rd belts are pretty heavy as is), while the Russians typically used 45rd Box Mags in their RPKs. That new Asian LMG (Ultimax? Something like that) uses 100rd Drum Mags. That said, most of our LMGs could work off the usual STANAGs for assault rifles if the need arose, but we usually had waay more than 30rds. This was just the LMGs and infantry carried GPMGs. The Coax MG on an M1 has over 1000 rounds, and a few hundred on a box for the gunner/commander's cupola MGs. A machine gunner's job (at least, in a marine squad) involved shooting a whole lot (though not as much as Rambo), and was generally easier with a whole lot of ammo. So yeah, a machine gun is exactly what this is.