FN HERSTAL MAG58 7,62x51
Description
FN Herstal is the original designer and manufacturer of the FN MAG® general purpose machine gun.
With 200,000 units manufactured and adopted by over 90 countries around the globe (all climate types), the FN MAG® machine gun is the unbeatable worldwide reference in its category in terms of accuracy and reliability.
The FN MAG® primarily fires from mountings (on vehicles, aircraft, ships and boats, or on tripods) but is also used by troops on the ground.
The FN MAG® is also known as the MAG®58, GPMG, M240 or L7A2.
- Oustanding Reliability
- Throughout the years, the FN MAG® machine gun has proven its reliability in all combat conditions and all climate types thanks to:
- An adjustable gas regulator
- Can be increased to compensate for adverse conditions
- Allows low rate of fire for maximum accuracy
- A primary extraction
- Reduces wear of extractor
- A two-step feed
- Increases belt pull capability
- Long life of major parts
- High Accuracy
A strong and rigid receiver as well as a barrel tighly locked in the receiver makes the FN MAG® highly accurate.
- Long Range Capability
The FN MAG® machine gun fires 7.62x51mm NATO rounds which are perfectly suited to general purpose machine gun applications and offer an effective range up to 1,800m.
- Sustained Fire Capability
Belt feeding guarantees high volumes of fire.
The FN MAG® features a quick change barrel which makes replacement of a hot barrel possible in less than 6 seconds, also during missions.
In addition, the FN MAG® fires from an open breech, which suppresses any risk of cook-off.
- Different variants for different applications
The infantry model can also be mounted on pintles or on FN Herstal's deFNder® remote weapon stations without any modification.
In addition, the FN MAG® is available in coax-mounted and pintle-mounted varinats to meet a large number of applications (air - land - sea).
Calibre | 7.62x51mm NATO |
Operating principle | Gas operated, open breech |
Overall length | 1260mm (49.6") |
Weapon width | 118.7mm (4.67") |
Weapon width with bipod extended | 408mm (16.1") |
Weapon width with bipod folded | 160mm (6.3") |
Weapon height | 263mm (10.35") |
Weapon height with bipod extended | 318mm (12.5") |
Weapon height with bipod folded | 225mm (8.86") |
Weapon weight | 11,8 kg (26.01 lb) |
Barrel type | Long |
Barrel weight | 3.05 kg (6.75 lb) |
Barrel length | 630mm (24.80") |
Buttstock type | Fixed |
Cyclic rate of fire | 650 to 1,000 RPM |
Feed | Belt |
Firing mode | Full auto |
Handguard type | N/A |
Role | General Purpose Machine Gun |
Product submitted to french regulation on firearms.