[D20 Modern] M134 (heavy machine gun)

[kreynolds]

Moot point...but I have looked in Janes and cannot find a tank with the M134 as part of its weaponry.

I don't think it is. Did someone say it was?

 

[Fellwind]

I don't think anyone did. The M134 was mostly a helicopter weapon. In fact I don't recall reading of any ground based use of it. The Air Force has a different designation for it, but same thing - its only mounted on aircraft.

Not to say that it couldn't be mounted on a Bradley for example, but I think it would be impractical.

 

[Raptor]

Actually you did Sean, in your opening paragraph when you first submitted the M134 here.

"M134
This vicious 7.62mm heavy machine gun is generally seen installed in helicopters and mounted on heavy military vehicles, such as the Hummer and various tanks"

 

[kreynolds]

Actually you did Sean, in your opening paragraph when you first submitted the M134 here.

"M134
This vicious 7.62mm heavy machine gun is generally seen installed in helicopters and mounted on heavy military vehicles, such as the Hummer and various tanks"

Ah. Thanks for pointing that out. That's a typo. It's a holdover from my M2HB description. I changed the description for the M134 in my docs but forgot to update it here. My bad. It should read...

"...installed in helicopters and some urban assault vehilces of the PDI."

Just in case you're wondering what the PDI is, its a fully fleshed out replacement for Department-7 in my campaign setting I'm working on.

However, most importantly, I'm not Sean.

 

[dkilgo]

Interesting!

I think that I will have to think on this some more. But, in the end I still think that I will go with Kreynolds's weapon as posted. Minus, of course, the land vehicle mounted part of the description.