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<blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 8289008" data-attributes="member: 6920268">Well the M-60 amd the G-3 are firing the same bullet and so should do the same damage. The advantage of an M-60 or other machine gun is that the greater weight and better cooling , as well as a belt feed allow more prolonged automatic fire while in practice almost no one will hit anything with a G-3 on full auto . Hence why most armies moved to smaller calibre ammo with better recoil control for rifles.An M-2 Browning on the other hand fires a .50 cal bullet which is massively larger than the G-3 and will go through a vehicle engine block or light armoured vehicles. A hit from a .50 cal anywhere on the human body is pretty much instant death as it will remove the limb causing massive blood loss. Not familiar with the system but doubling the damage and ignoring body armour looks like a minimum for .50 cal ammo. If there is a Barret .50 sniper rifle that fires the same ammo and may have different damage.Grenade lethality similar to a 9mm is not unreasonable the advantage is it hits everyone in the area often multiple times, however body armour which protects agaisnt pistol fire will usually stop such shrapnel.Also being stabbed in the eye with a pencil is likely to be none lethal unless you really penetrate deep through the bone into the brain, while having a hand chopped off will probably kill you as it severs arteries and without a tourniquet you will dead pretty damned fast.If a randome Venezualen conscript with a G-3 rifle gets a lucky hit , it is just as deadly as being hit by a master sniper heavy bullets kill people, Cinematics not withstanding , I believe the record for a kill with a .50 cal is a well over a mile</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andrew Moreton, post: 8289008, member: 6920268"] Well the M-60 amd the G-3 are firing the same bullet and so should do the same damage. The advantage of an M-60 or other machine gun is that the greater weight and better cooling , as well as a belt feed allow more prolonged automatic fire while in practice almost no one will hit anything with a G-3 on full auto . Hence why most armies moved to smaller calibre ammo with better recoil control for rifles. An M-2 Browning on the other hand fires a .50 cal bullet which is massively larger than the G-3 and will go through a vehicle engine block or light armoured vehicles. A hit from a .50 cal anywhere on the human body is pretty much instant death as it will remove the limb causing massive blood loss. Not familiar with the system but doubling the damage and ignoring body armour looks like a minimum for .50 cal ammo. If there is a Barret .50 sniper rifle that fires the same ammo and may have different damage. Grenade lethality similar to a 9mm is not unreasonable the advantage is it hits everyone in the area often multiple times, however body armour which protects agaisnt pistol fire will usually stop such shrapnel. Also being stabbed in the eye with a pencil is likely to be none lethal unless you really penetrate deep through the bone into the brain, while having a hand chopped off will probably kill you as it severs arteries and without a tourniquet you will dead pretty damned fast. If a randome Venezualen conscript with a G-3 rifle gets a lucky hit , it is just as deadly as being hit by a master sniper heavy bullets kill people, Cinematics not withstanding , I believe the record for a kill with a .50 cal is a well over a mile [/QUOTE]

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