LW50MG

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The lightweight .50 Caliber (12.7mm) machine gun (LW50MG) weapon system is a heavy machine gun being designed by General Dynamics (GD) to replace the M2 Browning machine gun. The LW50MG will be lighter than the M2, and have a greater rate of fire than the failed previous attempt to replace the M2, the XM312. GD received a $9 million contract to develop the weapon. If the development is successful, it will then be deployed starting in 2012. ^[1] The LW50MG could possibly be the same thing of, or a spawning from, the previous GDATP XM-312 LHMG prototype.

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• Ma Deuce Goes Back To The Drawing Board from Strategy Page, May 19, 2008