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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.
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 M1895 Colt-Browning, also known as the "potato digger", was the first belt fed machine gun to enter production.
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.