After repair on FN MAXIMI, i got to test fire it a lot, lets take a second look at this weapon. Please consider to support our effort: PayPal: valgear72@gmail.com Thank you for watching!
Ex- Dutch army armorer here. In the early 2000, the MoD thought it was a good idea to place the 5,56mm Minimi in the role the MAG used to fill in. They even experimented with Minimi's mounted on Leopard 2 MBT turrets. That didn't work out well ofcourse. In the mid 2000's, the Dutch army went to Afghanistan and within weeks, the MAG was back on group level again (like it was since 1961...). Recently, the tested the Minimi in 7,62mm, HK MG5 and the IWI Negev in 7,62mm to replace the MAG. Guess what happened: a new updated version of FN MAG was procured and issued... Just like 1961 again. There is simply no substitute for the FN MAG
Doesn't the german Puma also have a 5.56 machinegun as a coax? It just doesn't seem to make sense for a heavy vehicle with good sights, stable platform and ability to carry a lot of ammo.
It’s super interesting that some people (like Americans) insist on 7.62 MGs being crew served weapons at platoon level at the lowest, while others (many Europeans) have been using 1 or 2 7.62 MGs in their infantry squads for the last 80 years. I don’t see how something like a Minime could replace the range and suppression of a MAG or MG3, and 5.56 LSWs seem even more futile.
@@randomnobodovsky3692problem with those is that the PKM gets it's legendary reliability from it's unique pull out claw style feed system that's only possible with rimmed cartridges. When you fudge a rimless cartridge into the gun you take away what makes the PKM so reliable.
@@fridrekr7510 Its because in american doctrine, the Minimi isn't really a suppression or area of fire weapon. Its use more like a regular rifleman that only has an automatic setting on his weapon.
That's the same version we use in the Mexican Army and Army SF since 2013 It's been quite reliable and dependable over the years The only downside we've seen is that it's quite finicky on ammo choices We only have have 2 types of 7.62 nato on our stockpiles Locally SEDENA produced and Belgian ammo On Belgian runs great, no hiccups at all But it can be a pain on the nuts to run it with indigenous ammo, sometimes we have to stick to SEDENA ammo since most of the belgian stock goes to SF n' Navy SF, but conventional troops can acquire some on the batallion level from time to time depending on where we are operating That's about it, other than that I'd say it's a damn good system
Would love to hear about your experiences - something not really done in Anglo media often, I think, and I understanding the sensitivities about identities.
I wish, it is getting frustrating, no monetisation or even Patreon service, since we are in Ukraine.. viewers donations for group equipment are the reason why I still keep makeing videos. Thank you for watching
@@valgear5525 You’re a straight up gangster, UA-cam are a bunch of beta b1tches and you deserve all the $ but they hate content like yours. Thanks for everything you do, your a brave man and your country should be glad to have men like yourself fighting! The mix of weapons your unit uses is quite eclectic, but also impressive. Best of luck out there!
Back in 06, my unit got all new, still in the plastic wrap, railed M249's(MINIMI). We had the same issue with the feed paws during break in. Mine was (luckily) one of the few that didn't go down for this issue, but we had over 70% go down in one day for that issue. Once the guns got broken in though, almost everyone who had gotten issued one, swore by it and wouldn't trade it for anything else. Most contributing their M249(MINIMI) as to why they survived our deployment. I got transferred to Anti-Armor only a couple months after receiving my M249(MINIMI. When I went to Anti-Armor, our smallest MG was a M240(MAG58). So, I never shot a M249(MINIMI) after my short stint in a Line Company. I did, however, get a SHIT LOAD of experience on the M2HB(.50BMG) and the M240(MAG58). Once you get the MAXIMI broken in, it should run pretty well. It has a lot of issues in the Break-in period. Beat the piss out of it, replace what's broken, and then continue to beat the piss out of it until it stops breaking.
Thanks for yet another awesome overview and demonstration Valgear! You definitely used plenty of 7.62 to make the demonstration extra awesome 🔥👍 (I also noticed the charging handle randomly moving around while you were firing bursts... Another small thing that doesn't inspire confidence in your main suppressive fire/support weapon that already has other known issues, even with the "improved version"... WTF FN?! 🙄) Thanks again 🇺🇦💪
@@valgear5525 Brother i love your videos. And honestly you are doing best out there. I wanted to ask some questions that may also help others out here. Where can i contact you? Plea
As always great breakdown and insight on the tips & tricks, the Maximi is one of my all time favorites. Stay dangerous my friend, with all my respect and support from the US. Slava Ukraine !
Is there a chance you could have a look at HK MG5 machine gun? If you could make same video as this but on MG4 or MG5 it would be golden, there's so little info about these guns and how they really handle in reality
Cool one, thanks Val. Talking about support weapons, whats your opinion about the RPK and the concept behind it, since they seem still to be used in a very large scale?
Hello Martin, I have a weak spot for RPK, of course the concept is dead by now, but where it still work well is when you have a squad, and there is no better support weapon then rpk avaliable, the gunner still can learn and perform his role well (covering, careing heavy load- 8x 45rds mags +, useing bipod etc) the guns themselves are more accurate then ak74s, stronger reciver, heavier and I believe more quality barrel- rpks were made in Molot factory, very good one. I've even seen DMR rifles made out of them, which actually kind of works as well. So yes it's obsolete gun, but you can still make it work and be effective with it
@@valgear5525 Thanks for the answer, very interesting. I was wondering, why the USMC went that way with the M27, for some reason it seems to be a step in the past, while the concept also never really worked out with the AUG regarding the LMG, H-Bar and LSW Versions. Thanks again, have a good one, and stay safe
@@muellermartin9661 The M27 is justified by being variants of the same rifle being in the hands of every man in the squad except some specialists. The RPK vs. AK was forward thinking for the time but is still two different rifles with minimal parts interchangeability. The M27 is genuinely fully parts and ammo interchangeable across the squad which is nice. Definitely still some concerns about sustained fire though. I guess the Marines are just moving that to specialists. Marines are always a weird mix of extremely outdated and extremely experimental though, so I don't read much into these changes. The Army adopting a new rifle is way bigger in my books and I still have no idea how to feel about it. By all accounts the rifle itself seems to be quite good but it seems crazy to change over right at a point in history when NATO is the most unified in equipment it's ever been. It took so long for most nations to get up to true 5.56 STANAG interchangeability only for the US to hop to another new fancy round. I guess body armour really has captured the US developmental world's mindset. They seem to consider it top priority for every rifleman to be able to penetrate any standard issue armour currently in service. We'll have to wait and see if there's merit to that, and if the downsides are outweighed by the benefits of the new system. Suppressors should be standard across NATO though. That's gotta be the biggest boon to service member health and safety in 50+ years. And reduces the need for these fancier and fancier hearingpro sets that never seem to actually make it to the GI
Hot take - I've never fired the Minimi but I have fired the SAW which is based on it, whilst in the U.S. Army, didn't like it. Although it's obviously designed primarily for suppression rather than engaging point targets but it was inaccurate as hell. Made the 240 look like a laser gun.
You should try to get a hold of Ian at Forgotten Weapons. I’m sure he would love to interview you, and a video on his channel would give you a lot of exposure if that’s what you want.
Aww youtube deleted my comment. Terrible! You should check out the "Ironman" ammo carrying system. A flexible chute for the belt was attached to the machine gun, which then attaches to an ammo can mounted to a load carrying pack frame. There have been many different similar setups over the years, going back to the Vietnam war.
2:05, looks like the supressor almost jiggled loose?! If its not locked in place will it rotate off and then baffle strike and get thrown down range? LOL
Great video as always. Pan Val, what do you think should be main rifle and cartridge for UAF? And in terms of mobilisation, what physical fitness level is required to join Kraken? Thank you for your service. Stay Safe.
As always interesting stuff, but you should have linked to the M3 video at the end. My country just ordered these guns, so I will share your views around. We have history buying bad machine guns (MG3 from Turkey that didn't work) so this might be a repeat.
As a rule buying weapons from Turkey never ends well. If its surplus being sold off its generally seen 10 years of semi-sustained combat in the mountains with minimal maintenance. If it's domestically produced it's usually either overdesigned or made to lower tolerances than necessary. Which is ironic because Turkey's civilian arms production industry is actually consistently very high quality for a very reasonable price.
They have been seen in the hands of both sides. Russian proxies seem to use 7.62x39mm more often from what I've seen in pictures. Obviously field insight may be quite different.
I feel for the logistics guys having to manage the ammo situation over there. Bad enough supplying an army at war in normal conditions, now you've got scenarios where one squad needs 3 different types of 7.62 and they can't share a single round with each other because one guy has an AKM, the other has a PKM, and one dude is running a M240. Also the spare parts situation must be even worse, tank units operating Challenger 2s, Leopard 2s, and Abrams all together, similar issue for the infantry with every squad making Call of Duty look restrained with all the different types of weapons being used. Needless to say, if the logistics guys ain't getting laid every night and free beers wherever they go once all's said and done, then Ukraine will have failed it's troops worser than Italy did in WW2.
"Ukrainian logistical personnel have become top class professionals on the topic of maintaining small numbers of a stupidly large spectrum of completely incompatible military systems, and making them work in real combat"
Squad level? Sweden is and has been using the FN MAG 58' like that with 2 MAGs (ksp 58) and 2 Carl Gustaf recoilles's grg m/48) per squad since the FN MAG was adopted in 1958. Originally in 6.5×55mm mauser.
Mk.46 is IIRC Tactical Minimi/M249 from US Marines or Army and They Like its Compactness but want it Upscaled into 7.62, for replacing the Heavy M240/MAG it was Compact for GPMG, and Relatively Lighter than M240
No I don't, first of all IAM not expert in that, I can just do the basic crew stuff and setting up, and second of all, it would be very booting and long video
MG 42 and any H&K MG From 7.62 up to Granate MG is unbeatable. . . ............ Great stuff if .338 Lapua Mag is out of amno. Great Backup weapon!!!!!!
Apparently you don't know that the FN MAG is the most reliable, most successful and largest duration history (1958 to today) machine gun in the world. Still being used in most armies around the world to this day, including the US
I trust in Heckler for example since 1999 from G3 over P8 MP5 / 7 UMP also all MPs and MGs over 5.56. FN is not cheap dirt. But I like the German Engineering due to Springfield Hellfire Tavor , FN Mk 17. But i Trust in HK SiG and Glock Beretta and Steyer First. Never evet i would trust in any d.. mned AR or M16 or 4 platform. Never!!!! And Sure the FN makes a great job with the right ammo. The FN 90 is a great weapon. But there is a reason for HK SiG Glock Steyer Beretta and Tavor....as well as Famas and Hikkate. FN is great but however you must able to handle it by the way. Shalom
i've never heard anybody say anything even remotely close to nice about that stock, until you did. maybe this stock is good for mg's, ill give it a try for you man
Is it only me or is Multicam the best camo for ukraine right now? It always looks like dry area and busted forest also looks comparable to multicam too.
@user-tl9kn4xx6f Nah, the PKM is one of the best GPMGs ever manufactured, without contest. The FN MAG, M240 and MG3 being the next most common GPMGs, also great in their roles, but perform differently in reality and in their respective doctrine.
Is there much/any use of tripod systems for the 7.62mm machine guns? I can't remember having seen any on the videos I have seen, but I imagine they would be especially useful when paired with MG3s for long distance and perhaps indirect fire.
On Swedish FN MAGs gas regulator settings are numbered 1-8, with a clean gun: 1=slowest ~60shots/minute, 8=fastest ~1300shots/minute, 3=default setting ~500shots/minute
That half-balaclav is no good. You should stick with the one you use in the live firing segments and NLAW revisited video. Reminds me of Smoke from Mortal Kombat.
Ex- Dutch army armorer here. In the early 2000, the MoD thought it was a good idea to place the 5,56mm Minimi in the role the MAG used to fill in. They even experimented with Minimi's mounted on Leopard 2 MBT turrets.
That didn't work out well ofcourse. In the mid 2000's, the Dutch army went to Afghanistan and within weeks, the MAG was back on group level again (like it was since 1961...).
Recently, the tested the Minimi in 7,62mm, HK MG5 and the IWI Negev in 7,62mm to replace the MAG. Guess what happened: a new updated version of FN MAG was procured and issued... Just like 1961 again. There is simply no substitute for the FN MAG
Doesn't the german Puma also have a 5.56 machinegun as a coax? It just doesn't seem to make sense for a heavy vehicle with good sights, stable platform and ability to carry a lot of ammo.
"no substitute for the FN MAG" - have you heard of much lighter PK machine guns built in 7.62x51NATO?
It’s super interesting that some people (like Americans) insist on 7.62 MGs being crew served weapons at platoon level at the lowest, while others (many Europeans) have been using 1 or 2 7.62 MGs in their infantry squads for the last 80 years. I don’t see how something like a Minime could replace the range and suppression of a MAG or MG3, and 5.56 LSWs seem even more futile.
@@randomnobodovsky3692problem with those is that the PKM gets it's legendary reliability from it's unique pull out claw style feed system that's only possible with rimmed cartridges. When you fudge a rimless cartridge into the gun you take away what makes the PKM so reliable.
@@fridrekr7510 Its because in american doctrine, the Minimi isn't really a suppression or area of fire weapon. Its use more like a regular rifleman that only has an automatic setting on his weapon.
That's the same version we use in the Mexican Army and Army SF since 2013
It's been quite reliable and dependable over the years
The only downside we've seen is that it's quite finicky on ammo choices
We only have have 2 types of 7.62 nato on our stockpiles
Locally SEDENA produced and Belgian ammo
On Belgian runs great, no hiccups at all
But it can be a pain on the nuts to run it with indigenous ammo, sometimes we have to stick to SEDENA ammo since most of the belgian stock goes to SF n' Navy SF, but conventional troops can acquire some on the batallion level from time to time depending on where we are operating
That's about it, other than that I'd say it's a damn good system
Would love to hear about your experiences - something not really done in Anglo media often, I think, and I understanding the sensitivities about identities.
When I went down to Mexico I saw soldiers using primarily HK21s. Are they finally being replaced with these?
@@frankdamsy9715 Hmmmm, I wonder how much bribe money it would take to get one of those H&K21s, I mean, if they're getting replaced it's a win win.
Very useful manual of arms break downs and the feedback on issues is always helpful. Stay safe out there.
These videos are so badass. Never realized how useful the para stock is and how much more compact the maxime is vs the mag. Thanks for making these.
You deserve more subscribers! You get ahold of some cool stuff!
I wish, it is getting frustrating, no monetisation or even Patreon service, since we are in Ukraine.. viewers donations for group equipment are the reason why I still keep makeing videos. Thank you for watching
@@valgear5525
You’re a straight up gangster, UA-cam are a bunch of beta b1tches and you deserve all the $ but they hate content like yours.
Thanks for everything you do, your a brave man and your country should be glad to have men like yourself fighting!
The mix of weapons your unit uses is quite eclectic, but also impressive.
Best of luck out there!
Middle Earth does what middle Earth does in hard times
@@valgear5525 Patreon not operating in Ukraine is so wack. Are there any alternatives like SubscribeStar or others?
Back in 06, my unit got all new, still in the plastic wrap, railed M249's(MINIMI). We had the same issue with the feed paws during break in. Mine was (luckily) one of the few that didn't go down for this issue, but we had over 70% go down in one day for that issue. Once the guns got broken in though, almost everyone who had gotten issued one, swore by it and wouldn't trade it for anything else. Most contributing their M249(MINIMI) as to why they survived our deployment. I got transferred to Anti-Armor only a couple months after receiving my M249(MINIMI. When I went to Anti-Armor, our smallest MG was a M240(MAG58). So, I never shot a M249(MINIMI) after my short stint in a Line Company. I did, however, get a SHIT LOAD of experience on the M2HB(.50BMG) and the M240(MAG58).
Once you get the MAXIMI broken in, it should run pretty well. It has a lot of issues in the Break-in period. Beat the piss out of it, replace what's broken, and then continue to beat the piss out of it until it stops breaking.
Dude ur awesome. U just earned a subscriber
Edit: also you are extremely underrated, I’m telling all my friends about you
Thank you man! Very kind words
MG3 review teaser in the background 👀
1:14 valgear has an anti tank launcher chair. He has become too powerful
Just doing reviews like a savage during a war. Keep up the amazing work!😊
I am deeply amused by the idea of MAXIMI as a name, I'm shocked FNH didn't do it sooner.
Thanks for yet another awesome overview and demonstration Valgear! You definitely used plenty of 7.62 to make the demonstration extra awesome 🔥👍 (I also noticed the charging handle randomly moving around while you were firing bursts... Another small thing that doesn't inspire confidence in your main suppressive fire/support weapon that already has other known issues, even with the "improved version"... WTF FN?! 🙄) Thanks again 🇺🇦💪
Thank you, I can justify the ammo spend o ly because it was function check after repair. Thanks for watching!
@@valgear5525
Brother i love your videos.
And honestly you are doing best out there.
I wanted to ask some questions that may also help others out here.
Where can i contact you?
Plea
As always great breakdown and insight on the tips & tricks, the Maximi is one of my all time favorites. Stay dangerous my friend, with all my respect and support from the US. Slava Ukraine !
Beautiful
What a beautiful machine gun!
The goat is whatever you can get ammo and parts for
2:08 ... and a little-known secret is the suppressor gets hot enough to cook bacon!
Bacon in short supply , when foraging
Is there a chance you could have a look at HK MG5 machine gun? If you could make same video as this but on MG4 or MG5 it would be golden, there's so little info about these guns and how they really handle in reality
it got a shoulder thing that goes up, great success
Waiting for that MG42/59 video ;)
Cool one, thanks Val. Talking about support weapons, whats your opinion about the RPK and the concept behind it, since they seem still to be used in a very large scale?
Hello Martin, I have a weak spot for RPK, of course the concept is dead by now, but where it still work well is when you have a squad, and there is no better support weapon then rpk avaliable, the gunner still can learn and perform his role well (covering, careing heavy load- 8x 45rds mags +, useing bipod etc) the guns themselves are more accurate then ak74s, stronger reciver, heavier and I believe more quality barrel- rpks were made in Molot factory, very good one. I've even seen DMR rifles made out of them, which actually kind of works as well. So yes it's obsolete gun, but you can still make it work and be effective with it
@@valgear5525 Thanks for the answer, very interesting. I was wondering, why the USMC went that way with the M27, for some reason it seems to be a step in the past, while the concept also never really worked out with the AUG regarding the LMG, H-Bar and LSW Versions.
Thanks again, have a good one, and stay safe
@@muellermartin9661theyre using the m27 so they can actually just adopt the 416 in higher numbers what ive heard from people
@@muellermartin9661 The M27 is justified by being variants of the same rifle being in the hands of every man in the squad except some specialists. The RPK vs. AK was forward thinking for the time but is still two different rifles with minimal parts interchangeability. The M27 is genuinely fully parts and ammo interchangeable across the squad which is nice. Definitely still some concerns about sustained fire though. I guess the Marines are just moving that to specialists.
Marines are always a weird mix of extremely outdated and extremely experimental though, so I don't read much into these changes. The Army adopting a new rifle is way bigger in my books and I still have no idea how to feel about it. By all accounts the rifle itself seems to be quite good but it seems crazy to change over right at a point in history when NATO is the most unified in equipment it's ever been. It took so long for most nations to get up to true 5.56 STANAG interchangeability only for the US to hop to another new fancy round. I guess body armour really has captured the US developmental world's mindset. They seem to consider it top priority for every rifleman to be able to penetrate any standard issue armour currently in service. We'll have to wait and see if there's merit to that, and if the downsides are outweighed by the benefits of the new system.
Suppressors should be standard across NATO though. That's gotta be the biggest boon to service member health and safety in 50+ years. And reduces the need for these fancier and fancier hearingpro sets that never seem to actually make it to the GI
Hot take - I've never fired the Minimi but I have fired the SAW which is based on it, whilst in the U.S. Army, didn't like it.
Although it's obviously designed primarily for suppression rather than engaging point targets but it was inaccurate as hell.
Made the 240 look like a laser gun.
You should try to get a hold of Ian at Forgotten Weapons. I’m sure he would love to interview you, and a video on his channel would give you a lot of exposure if that’s what you want.
Aww youtube deleted my comment. Terrible! You should check out the "Ironman" ammo carrying system. A flexible chute for the belt was attached to the machine gun, which then attaches to an ammo can mounted to a load carrying pack frame. There have been many different similar setups over the years, going back to the Vietnam war.
my favourite moment of video its when the gun is doing TRATATATATA TRAAATATATATATTATAAAATTATATA
Valgear the Goat
Awesome! This one and the AK12 better take it home and keep it!!
Hey buddy! I'm always glad when a new Video comes out and I see you are alright. Stay safe and healthy!
Nice video! Love your channel. I heard that recently FAMAS have made their way to Ukraine. Do you know if you can find one of those and review it?
That would be very interesting to watch, there’s not much content about the FAMAS available
I’m sure it’s heavy, but God I want one.
Take care and get some rest, if possible.
Thank you.
Want and NEED!
Love Belgian guns.
The Belgians do be on that wave tho.
@@Oblivisci........have been for a few hundred years. Belgium has been a center of firearms development and production since guns were invented.
I’ve got that same supressor and mount!!! Even the same 3 prong.
NICE!!!
youd love the Negev
He used to be a Negev-toting machine gunner back in 2014-2015.
If you check out "Horse Outside"...by the Rubber Bandits. That dude has a mask that never slips.❤❤❤❤Ireland loves Ukraine 🇺🇦 🤣 😂 😊❤❤🎉
I would appreciate hearing your opinion on the m14 system. Excellent content.
💙💛 Slava Ukraina! Heroyam Slava! ❤️🖤
So jealous we only get the neutered versions in the states
2:05, looks like the supressor almost jiggled loose?! If its not locked in place will it rotate off and then baffle strike and get thrown down range? LOL
Another good video
Hello Canada 😊
When is a maxim m1910 review coming out?
Gotta say as mg gunner from one europian army with these never had a problem with anything
As time goes my suspicion is that we have all the problems because of the increased back pressure...
Gun manufacturers having anxiety attack when you make a "review". 😂
762x51 machine guns are crazy. I have a 308 rifle and a single shot is extremely loud!
Imagine an FN MAG fired from an unfurnished and uninsulated concrete room with boarded up window openings then... 😈
Can you show us the HK MG5?
I love how each video has better and better quality and effort. Stay safe mate
Mg3 review please.
Me want !
Good to see ur alive
rockin them UFpro in MC i see. Nice piece of kit
They holding amazingly, of course lot holes patched, but the material and stitching is supreme
Good vid. Thank you
Btw mate, would be cool if you reviewed M70 from Zastava,
i know Croatia donated some rifles from the stocks to Ukraine.
Great video as always. Pan Val, what do you think should be main rifle and cartridge for UAF? And in terms of mobilisation, what physical fitness level is required to join Kraken? Thank you for your service. Stay Safe.
At 5.56 it is generally a great machine but a bit fragile. At 7.62 I can imagine that it is even more fragile. Yes, probably need work!
As always interesting stuff, but you should have linked to the M3 video at the end. My country just ordered these guns, so I will share your views around. We have history buying bad machine guns (MG3 from Turkey that didn't work) so this might be a repeat.
As a rule buying weapons from Turkey never ends well. If its surplus being sold off its generally seen 10 years of semi-sustained combat in the mountains with minimal maintenance. If it's domestically produced it's usually either overdesigned or made to lower tolerances than necessary.
Which is ironic because Turkey's civilian arms production industry is actually consistently very high quality for a very reasonable price.
@@thepinkplushie We had to buy HK barrels from Germany for all. Expensive cheap guns.
Savage!
Dope vid! Question. Is the RPD used at all by either side. Seems like it would be a handy LMG to have?
They have been seen in the hands of both sides. Russian proxies seem to use 7.62x39mm more often from what I've seen in pictures. Obviously field insight may be quite different.
Very nice brother!!!!!
Can you get MG3 to show us? 😀
I feel for the logistics guys having to manage the ammo situation over there. Bad enough supplying an army at war in normal conditions, now you've got scenarios where one squad needs 3 different types of 7.62 and they can't share a single round with each other because one guy has an AKM, the other has a PKM, and one dude is running a M240. Also the spare parts situation must be even worse, tank units operating Challenger 2s, Leopard 2s, and Abrams all together, similar issue for the infantry with every squad making Call of Duty look restrained with all the different types of weapons being used.
Needless to say, if the logistics guys ain't getting laid every night and free beers wherever they go once all's said and done, then Ukraine will have failed it's troops worser than Italy did in WW2.
"Ukrainian logistical personnel have become top class professionals on the topic of maintaining small numbers of a stupidly large spectrum of completely incompatible military systems, and making them work in real combat"
At least 2/3 of those calibers can be recovered from fallen invaders.
My man what is this chestrig?
V nice.
Good for hunting gopher I'm sure. 👍
No one else around the world is useing these guns at the level you are FN SHOULD LISTEN. I bet they are 😊
Squad level? Sweden is and has been using the FN MAG 58' like that with 2 MAGs (ksp 58) and 2 Carl Gustaf recoilles's grg m/48) per squad since the FN MAG was adopted in 1958. Originally in 6.5×55mm mauser.
Mk.46 is IIRC Tactical Minimi/M249 from US Marines or Army
and They Like its Compactness but want it Upscaled into 7.62, for replacing the Heavy M240/MAG
it was Compact for GPMG, and Relatively Lighter than M240
Does their problems mean they are relegated to other duties or are the front line soldiers having to use them?
It stay in frontline use, lot of guys, not many guns
@@valgear5525 We should be supplying you with everything you need. I hate that we are not doing that.
@@ptonpcnot our war
I miss my time as a machine gunner
Are you planning on making a video on how to operate mortars?
No I don't, first of all IAM not expert in that, I can just do the basic crew stuff and setting up, and second of all, it would be very booting and long video
Operating mortars is 90% maths and ballistics tables, especially >81mm mortars.
MG 42 and any H&K MG
From 7.62 up to Granate MG is unbeatable. . . ............
Great stuff if .338 Lapua Mag is out of amno.
Great Backup weapon!!!!!!
Apparently you don't know that the FN MAG is the most reliable, most successful and largest duration history (1958 to today) machine gun in the world. Still being used in most armies around the world to this day, including the US
I trust in Heckler for example since 1999 from G3 over P8 MP5 / 7 UMP also all MPs and MGs over 5.56.
FN is not cheap dirt. But I like the German Engineering due to Springfield Hellfire Tavor , FN Mk 17.
But i Trust in HK SiG and Glock Beretta and Steyer First.
Never evet i would trust in any d.. mned AR or M16 or 4 platform.
Never!!!!
And Sure the FN makes a great job with the right ammo.
The FN 90 is a great weapon.
But there is a reason for HK SiG Glock Steyer Beretta and Tavor....as well as Famas and Hikkate.
FN is great but however you must able to handle it by the way.
Shalom
7.62x51mm ?
Looks way more compact than FN MAG58 or M240 👍
Box magazine looks nice too, large capacity for mobile operation.
Polish grot pls
0:27 is the fouling on the hands due to the suppressor or just a quirk of the minimi/maximi system?
Just a suppressor back pressure
@@valgear5525what kind of lubricants are you using for this gun?
@@valgear5525do y'all use flow through suppressors with those?
Awesome!
i've never heard anybody say anything even remotely close to nice about that stock, until you did. maybe this stock is good for mg's, ill give it a try for you man
Please @valgear try get an mg5 and compare
Is it only me or is Multicam the best camo for ukraine right now? It always looks like dry area and busted forest also looks comparable to multicam too.
Yes it is
PKM is still the goat
THE GOAT
Pkm is dogshit lmao
you goddamn right it is
Gayest of all time?
@user-tl9kn4xx6f Nah, the PKM is one of the best GPMGs ever manufactured, without contest. The FN MAG, M240 and MG3 being the next most common GPMGs, also great in their roles, but perform differently in reality and in their respective doctrine.
Finally the western PKM and so now the Western soldiers can use a single GPMG for the role not FN MAG and MINIMI together
Or we will acquire more of FN MAG L version with titanium parts but its way too expensive
3 prong on belt is so goated
Can you get your hands on a MG3?
Interesting to see an american silencer on a FN europe gun.
Is that suppressor cleanable?
Yes
I never thought about the stock being able to flip to vertical position was looking uncomfortable af 😂
is that a saiga in the background ?
Appreciate hard times pressed , but are bullpup designs like Oz F90 , any good
RAMBOOOO
Looks likes my old battlefield4 set up
Is there much/any use of tripod systems for the 7.62mm machine guns? I can't remember having seen any on the videos I have seen, but I imagine they would be especially useful when paired with MG3s for long distance and perhaps indirect fire.
Yes there definitely is, and the more static the Frontline is, the more mgs on tripods showing up
"Hello, guys"
@valgear when compared with PKP and PKM how does a Maximi fare? Is it better or not worth the money?
The IDF would like a word with you
What light machine you’ve used has the best bipod so far?
Suppressors are good to confuse your enemies, but damn those baffles gonna get dirty on that gun.
Подскажите, на газовом регуляторе 7.62 не подписаны положения. Какое "нормально", а какое "грязно"?
On Swedish FN MAGs gas regulator settings are numbered 1-8, with a clean gun:
1=slowest ~60shots/minute,
8=fastest ~1300shots/minute,
3=default setting ~500shots/minute
Gun from Project IGI ❤
When the war is over, will you tell us about your experiences and missions?
Is it the US made machine gun?
That half-balaclav is no good. You should stick with the one you use in the live firing segments and NLAW revisited video.
Reminds me of Smoke from Mortal Kombat.
I'll take 10!