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a number of people corrected me and said that a machine guns main job was suppressive fire, keeping enemy heads down. let's check the US marine corps manual on machine guns to see if that's true. for the squad automatic weapon, which is a light machine gun, they cover how it is expected to use a high volume of fire to suppress and destroy enemy personnel. suppression is involved, but not exclusively. it also covers how multiple saws can be devastating in an ambush kill zone—not a suppression zone. it is even said that saws can provide all the ambush firepower that is needed for a platoon. for the m240 medium machine gun, they say that the impressive firepower of this weapon can create a telling effect against personnel and equipment. open to interpretation, but I see that as a bit more than keeping enemy heads down. they also cover how absolutely ridiculous multiple of these can be with massed fire. for heavy machine guns like the mk19 automatic grenade launcher and m2 .50 bmg, they just have multiple paragraphs on how disgusting those can be against personnel on up to lightly armored vehicles. so perhaps machine guns are meant for more than suppression. that manual is a little old, it doesn't include the marines transition to the m27 as kind of an in between assault rifle light machine gun deal. but you can't blame someone for thinking machine guns are good at eliminating threats.

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