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* U.S. military personnel in ''[[War of The Worlds|War of the Worlds]]''
* U.S. military personnel in ''[[War of The Worlds|War of the Worlds]]''


* Seen in Zeke's chop shop in ''[[xXx: State of the Union]]''
* Seen in Zeke's chop shop in ''[[XXX 2: State of the Union]]''
 


=== Video Games ===
=== Video Games ===

Revision as of 23:02, 16 December 2008

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FN MAG 58 mocked up to resemble an M240, with synthetic buttstock and heatshield added - 7.62x51mm NATO
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British L7A2 General Purpose Machine Gun - 7.62x51mm NATO
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Tripod mounted FN MAG-58 machine gun (Independence Day exhibition at Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Latrun, Israel) - 7.62x51mm NATO

The FN MAG is a general purpose Machine gun developed in Belgium during the 1950s and adopted by many countries around the world, including the U.S. The United States Military made some design changes and adopted it currently as the M240, however it is not identical to the FN MAG used in Europe, South America and the Middle East prior to the 1990s. The MAG-58 was the mainstay of foreign armies until the U.S. finally got rid of the M-60 in the early 1990s and adopted their own version of the FN MAG. There are three major incarnations of the FN MAG, in movies.

1) The original MAG-58 (which is the incarnation seen before the early 1990s).

2) The L7 Machine Gun, adopted by Great Britain and used by some former Commonwealth countries

3) U.S. incarnation known as the M240. All major variants of the FN MAG are very similar, except the earlier variants had no heat shields around the barrels and the buttstocks were wood. The newest incarnation, the U.S. M240 added heat shields and synthetic stock, plus a modified flash hider.


The FN MAG machine gun (the most recent version being designated M240 in U.S. military service) has appeared in the following films and video games being used by the following actors:


FN MAG 58

Film

L7 Machine Gun

Film

  • One of the Anarchy 99 henchmen in xXx

Television


M240 Machine Gun

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M240B 7.62x51mm NATO
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M240G 7.62x51mm NATO

Film

Video Games