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Here's some info:
"Rather than being gas operated, an electric motor operates a chain link which in turn operates the firing mechanism. This way, if a round fails to fire, it is still extracted, ejected, and replaced with a fresh round."
Courtesy BurningSaviour. And it only took me, what, 5 seconds?
Depending on the gun, no limit. A belt fed machine gun can have a belt added to a belt added to a belt.
Depends on the gun. Some have no limit, since they are fed by a belt.
A belt fed machine gun- no limit. The American 180 was a .22 LR machine gun with a 177 round magazine.
The MG-81 was a 7.92 mm belt fed machine gun (German) used by the Luftwaffe to replace the MG-34 which was a drum fed machine gun.
The stick magazine fed hand cranked gatling gun was probably the first machine gun produced.These were in use around 1875-1880.
Vickers- belt fed water cooled medium machinegun. Vickers a light, air cooled, magazine fed.
The M1895 Colt-Browning, also known as the "potato digger", was the first belt fed machine gun to enter production.
Lewis gun
M-60 is a belt fed, air cooled, general purpose machine gun.
The Kalishnikov PKM is a gas operated, belt fed, air cooled, automatic only, machine gun.
The M240 is the US name for the MAG machinegun. Built in Belgium by FN Herstal, it is a an air cooled, belt fed medium machine gun in caliber 7.62 NATO.
The M240B is an American variant of the Belgian FN-MAG machine gun. It is a belt-fed, gas operated, air cooled machine gun which fires the 7.62x51 NATO cartridge.