light machine gun in English

noun
1
any air-cooled machine gun with a caliber no greater than .30 inch (7.6 mm).
The question now was where to employ the heavy machine guns to best support and reinforce the light machine guns and strengthen King Company's defense.

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1. The Bren Light Machine Gun was the standard light machine gun of the British Army and Commonwealth forces throughout World War 2 and beyond

2. Bren machine gun, British adaptation of a Czech light machine gun

3. The Bren machine gun was probably the most commonly used light machine gun in World War II

4. The M60 was typically referred to either as a light machine gun or a general-purpose machine gun.

5. Machine guns such as the Degtyarev light machine gun were widely used, along with the DShK and the SG-43 Gorunov.

6. The MG 42 weighed 11.57 kg in the light machine gun role with the bipod, lighter than the MG 34 and easily portable.

7. The Dutch infantry squads were equipped with an organic light machine gun, the M.20 Lewis machine gun, of which about eight thousand were available.

8. The Universal Carrier, also known as the Bren Gun Carrier and sometimes simply the Bren Carrier from the light machine gun armament, is a common name describing a family of light armoured tracked vehicles built by Vickers-Armstrongs and other companies.

9. Knowledgeable sources in Bangladesh told Human Rights Watch that they heard the distinctive sounds of heavy and light machine gun fire and mortar shelling in villages just across the border in Burma, and spotted smoke arising from these villages shortly afterward.