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The Forgotten M60E1: An Early Attempt to Improve the M60 Machine Gun

Talyn

Talyn

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The M60 which entered service in 1957, saw heavy use in Vietnam, and remained in U.S. military arsenals until its gradual retirement in the 1990s. In reality and in combat, however, it's promise was quickly undercut by a series of flaws that frustrated troops and plagued the weapon throughout its service life.

To correct many of the shortcomings of the original M60, engineers developed the M60E1 prototype. Though it never entered mass production, the E1 played an important role in shaping the weapon’s future and laid the groundwork for later, more successful designs such as the M60E3, M60E4, and M60E6.

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The Forgotten M60E1: An Early Attempt to Improve the M60 Machine Gun

I previously covered the M60 to the M60E6, but now we turn to a lesser-known stepping stone: the M60E1.Developed as a prototype, the M60E1 represented an early attempt to correct many of the shortcomings of the original M60, which entered service in 1957, saw heavy use in Vietnam, and remained...
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Talyn said:
The M60 which entered service in 1957, saw heavy use in Vietnam, and remained in U.S. military arsenals until its gradual retirement in the 1990s. In reality and in combat, however, it's promise was quickly undercut by a series of flaws that frustrated troops and plagued the weapon throughout its service life.

To correct many of the shortcomings of the original M60, engineers developed the M60E1 prototype. Though it never entered mass production, the E1 played an important role in shaping the weapon’s future and laid the groundwork for later, more successful designs such as the M60E3, M60E4, and M60E6.

www.thefirearmblog.com

The Forgotten M60E1: An Early Attempt to Improve the M60 Machine Gun

I previously covered the M60 to the M60E6, but now we turn to a lesser-known stepping stone: the M60E1.Developed as a prototype, the M60E1 represented an early attempt to correct many of the shortcomings of the original M60, which entered service in 1957, saw heavy use in Vietnam, and remained...
www.thefirearmblog.com www.thefirearmblog.com

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Was door gunner in 1967 don't know what the M-60 model number was. We didn't have case catchers or chutes used a large c-ration can to aid feeding. I used a large ammo can that held 2000rds can't remember name of the can. One of the guys came up with the idea of cutting a few coils off the springs inside the two piece buffer assembly jumped up the rate of fire to around 1000 rpm. After firing X number of rds a crack showed in the rear of the ejection port. Needless to say this pissed off the folks at ordnance HQ. Didn't take long before we got one piece buffers and all gun receivers had to have the ejection ports lengthened. The larger port was an attempt to have ejected cases come straight back to aid in protecting the tail rotor. Problem was you had to apply heavy tape to protect your hand when the cases came straight back. In a very short time we got case catchers.
 
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