GPMG: The world's deadliest machine gun
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- čas přidán 4. 03. 2023
- For nearly 60 years, the General Purpose Machine Gun has been the go-to weapon of choice for the British military and it is still in service to this today.
The General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) was brought in after World War Two to replace the Vickers Heavy Machine Gun and the Bren Light Machine Gun.
It is currently being used by more than 80 different countries worldwide, making it one of the most popular machine guns in the world.
Loved for its accuracy and reliability on the battlefield, the GPMG is used by all three British armed services, in the air, on land and at sea.
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That dude is a battle winning asset.
Was thinking that He knows all the nooks and crannies of that weapon
Just goes to show the quality soldiers britain is known for
Like BAKHMUT
"Ba'iw win'in ass'eh innit?? Oi thanks guv'na 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@dylang3998: Why Aye man.
My mate was so proud he was the GPMG carrier, we all were happy for him, since it meant we did not have to carry it. He has never been able to stand up straight since. It was bad enough carrying the LMG.
Lol worked with a guy that done his service in the army....
And his biggest complaint about the gun was carrying it as well lol 😂
😭🤣
They made us take the sling off for CFT's .... which we used to do every 3 months 😭. Guy with the GPMG was always the first to get shot at 🫣
🤣 They should put some wheels on those big guns. Then we could dolly them around. Big, detachable wheels! 🙏
@@PhilHaddon You'd want to be the first to get shot at, just so you can drop that boat anchor... 😁
This dude's unreserved confidence is battle winning! I remember the days of being an 18yo trooper, invincible I was!
Ditto brother, ditto... 👍🏴
The boss did well picking him for the video and not anyone else who’d say it as it is… “it’s dogshite carrying a GPMG, join the RAF instead”
@@notmenotme614 🤣🤣🤣
Dogshite yes, but the pebble monkeys certainly aren't the answer!
i was a gpmg gunner in baor in 1965 and it's still kicking ass nearly 60 years later 😊😊😊
Such a cool platform glad it's still here
Back in the sixties finished with the Bren then used the GPMG,it was heavy but devastating
i know the bren and lots of rifles are heavy . i dont know how you can move fast with them . Thanks for you`re service in Army
I think the drawback of the Bren was that it was too accurate?
@@greyvoice7949 never fired any gun , but would like a go with the bren
@@greyvoice7949 my late father carried one all the way up through Italy, he could still rattle off its serial number when he was in his eighties, he absolutely loved it, you could see his eyes light up when he talked about the Bren ….. if you hit them, you hit them with three or four rounds, unless you were firing from the hip!!!
that’s about all he ever said about the end result….
@@simonnoble7589it's a real.treat.m8.try GPMG TO AWSOME ❤❤❤ I LOVED THE.OLD 303 LEE ENFIELD keep a tight grip it bites 😂😂😂😂
I've knocked holes in walls with the fckr, superb weapons.
It's a 1919 John Browning designed BAR automatic rifle receiver turned upside down and made into the GPMG or FN MAG. He was a genius, his pistol's, 50 cal machine guns and the GPMG are still being used over 100 hundred years after he designed them!
You sure about that?
@@mattbennetts5720 which part?
Its got to be in the 100,000s of rounds ive put through these things over my 18 yrs....either in training or on ops. You know things are going your way when you hear one of these things covering you.
I tried firing it one and I couldn't hit a barn door..
Please explain to me what they are used for?
If I had the option in a1 v 1 fight from. 300m..rifle vs GPMG.. I would pick a rifle (and would feel pretty confident at taking out the GPMG gunner)..
If I had to tske out a rifleman in prone from 300m with a GPMG I feel like I would waste a lot of rounds snd the Rifleman would snipe me first
@@rammingspeed5217 The GPMG is basically a force multiplier for an infantry platoon, providing covering/suppressing fire. Its also used on may types of vehicles, trucks, tanks, MRAPs etc. The yanks call it the M240, and having worked with some of them, they love it aswell.
This isnt a pin point weapon, it works using whats called a "beaten zone" idea. While firing, the gpmg moves around a small amount, creating a variation of trajectory for each round. When you take this into account, you get an oval shape of impacts around the area targeted. This oval is called a beaten zone. Using a tripod mount its effective out to about 1700m (the beaten zone will be very large at that range) But tracer burn out is just over 1000m if i remember right, its been along time.
@@rammingspeed5217 Most uneducated, moronic thing I've seen in a while 🤦♂️
There's no way someone could take a shot with a rifle while this thing has them pinned down...
You need to stop watching movies and playing video games 🤡🤡🤡
@@rammingspeed5217 To extend on Catlee, the machine gun really isn't a mass casualty weapon where you use it to kill the enemy. If the enemy is stupid then sure it can turn into one (such as its role in an ambush), but the primary role is to keep the enemy fixed into position where riflemen or any other fast moving element (usually air support) would close the distance and then actually make the killing shots. Machine guns are also good for attacking vehicles, since they fire at enough volume to quickly penetrate light armor or just thick vehicle construction such as when facing a vehicle from the front. An example of this in action are machine guns used in military checkpoints or how Russian SOF take down Ukrainian supply trucks.
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj why dont thry mske one that jist kills every enemy?
This shows that even old engineering is very efficient
Or that machine guns have not evolved in a dramatic way? But then why change something that works and works well? Possibly they could try to lighten it , but you could create unforeseen problems (as with many things , two schools of thought 'if it works why change it?' , 'Change it to make it better'. Of course they do conflict sometimes. UK military used to use 7.62mm for most peoples personal weapons , but now they use a smaller calibre which means you can carry more ammo , but it would not be compatible with the GPMG (but trying to make the belts from the riflemen's ammo would take time and you would not want to do so under fire , not to mention your ammo would go down really fast).
the Bren gun was used for HOW MANY years ?!!!!
@@dovidell Maxim guns are still being rocked around the world, and the Bren is still in use in some countries.
Typical saying us Aussies have, if it ain't broke, don't try fixing it.
Puts down accurate fire at a respectable rate. That's all you need.
50 cal mg..
What a BEAST! I've never seen it fail, I think that is testimony to those who prided themselves with the GPMG. I once asked a guy if he would be interested in selection get to recon/snipers. He replied he was a hammer, not a scalpel.
That was EXACTLY what I said during my time in the Canadian army! I was an instructor on the GPMG
💯 change barrel before it melts 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Remember the distinctive sound of these filling the air at Otterburn.
💯 m8 and Canada along side a chieftain tank one of our guys shot out a periscope no joke he stood tall.before the man for that 😂😂😂😂
Spent hours linking the ammo at night but never got to fire it the next day. Ended up on one of the targets at 100 yds with a GPMG, LMGs and numerous SLRs firing over the top of me.
@@scotto7924 linking ammo forgot about that
Guy sounds like he loves his job
Also known as the GMGP. I'm General using this Machine Gun with effin' Purpose
I always remember doing a shoot with a GPMG on the flight deck of an RN ship I was on when going down to the Falklands. We were transitting past the Equator, and it was my first shoot with this particular weapon. I will always remember one of the ejected casings hitting me in the throat and sliding down the inside of my No 8 shirt. There was me leaping round the fight deck trying to get this hot casing away from my body.
My oh my, fond (and some not so fond... 🤣) memories of schlepping this about during my service... As the baby of the section, I got to bear it's weight... Great bit of kit, and happy to see its still in use... 👍🏴
@@sshep86 British Army, Scottish regiment buddy. There's no separate 'Scottish' army, just the the British Army, but there's Scottish, Irish and Welsh regiments within it. 👍
Got dumped on me to 1st day to armoury guy said its yours SNOT GOBBLER 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
One gun I really do miss not being in the army anymore. It was GREAT to use. 😊👍
🤔Surely, it is still in regular service, so I don`t understand what you are saying, sorry.
@@davericketts9101 I am NOT in the army anymore to use it !
@@RJM1011 You can take the boy out of the army, but you cannot take the army out of the boy...
@@kiwigrunt330 Nearly 50 now no boy anymore ! 😂😂 Thank you.
@@RJM1011 I'm 57. Still a boy. Still don't know what I want to do when I grow up...
Used one of these when I was in the TA. Got better scores as I got further away probably because I'm long sighted. Excellent weapon.
This is the Belgian FN (Faabrique Nationale) MAG. Designed in the early 1950's and entered service in 1958, so sometimes called the FN 58. The WWII German MG 42 was the inspiration for the FN MAG. The Mag has been used by many nations and certainly is an excellent general purpose machine gun (GPMG), but I don't think that it is necessarily the best. The MG 42 spawned a lot of copies including the German MG 3 (recently replaced by the MG 5) and American M60. I would say that the MG 42 is perhaps the greatest because if its impact on so many later designs.
Browning is best girl
@@RCXDerp yep, let's remember browning was a war winner👍
You are correct and the basis for L7 GPMG British Army designation for the American M240 was the BAR which was made in Belgium as the FN Model D that was turned upside down. Same thing as why the AK assault rifle internals are the same as the WW II M1 Garand
@@RCXDerp M2 is not a GPMG which in the subject of this video. M2 is a heavy machine gun that fulfills a different role.
@@RCXDerp Great comparison
Accurate, durable and reliable. Never encountered a more capable and versatile weapons system.
I loved the GPMG. I carried the beast all through Northern Ireland. (When feesible) Didn't mind the weight even though I was the smallest guy in the platoon.
Midget
@@ryane7906 Yet stronger than all the lanky lads!
@@Sidney1WG thought you would of been
If you talk to an American they see your L7 as M240
Smallest guy with most powerful weapon.I always felt invincible carrying the gimpy
Ah. some good old fashion confidence! Bravo LADS
I've never had to carry one of these things around, just an LMG. I imagine it's a real pain in the ass, but it's very welcome in a firefight.
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Had the rare optunity to use it while deployed in Iraq during op telic 8. Lit up the night sky and made the enemy think twice.
I too love this weapon. Firing it at 1000rpm and hearing it is so satisfying.
That beret is a battle winning asset 😎
The RSM may not have been too happy with that way of wearing it. Takes ages to get one to the preferred shape.
Good lad.
Loved it… Did my SF cadre too…could still strip and assemble in my sleep…all these years later..
MAG58 is a great piece of kit.
Good design, General Purpose, sir! 😃
The guy used Venom from the Apprentice all over his face
When your wife or girlfriend says
“I wish you would open up more”
*MG3 Joins the chat*
and sits silently in the corner. This IS the best GPMG in the world.
The MG3 is easier to carry, lighter and has a faster ROF (although I think the faster ROF can be a bit wasteful).
The deadly part depends on the shooter, not really the weapon...
M2 Browning entered the chat
@@SuperGeronimo999 Puckle gun enters the chat.
Well... Any fire waepon is a battle winning asset as long as the bullet hit the target and destroys it.
Your probably right.....but whats a "fire waepon"
Ha! ime in my 70s and well familiar with this weapon ..says it all really.
Greased 3 insurgents using the M240G. They set off the IED prematurely and then try to run away. I aimed in front of them and walked it back using a 50 rnd link.
Hattrick
It was the will of Allah.
@@biddyboy1570 oof
Solid weapon system, but by Christ it’s a B@stard to clean.
I was going to say the same thing.
2 hours sometimes.
Rubbish..
@@peterstubbs5934 Cheers for the Input Ant Middleton.
Good sturdy, reliable weapon the gimpy
Nick named the "Orc Cutter"
Had 2 of these to clean and fettle as the gunner on a Cheiftain tank
at first glance looks like a hybrid design MG-42 and the Czech Bren gun
Gota love the gimpy
Get Some !
Is CZcams stalking me??? I literally JUST got assigned one! Yesterday in fact!
Does it only fire blanks ?
The gimpy! SF mod is its forte.
I loved this weapon....trained at RHYL by the LI and the Greenjackets......those guys swore by this baby.
You don't want to be in the sights of machine gun .. M60 and the German ww2 machine guns all as lethal as our gpmg .. The secret is not to get caught short of ammo.. Even 1 round of 7.62mm from the SLR was overkill .. ✌️💯🇬🇧
Rate of fire: 60 dead Russian manlets a minute
Ahhh, the 'General Purpose GPMG Machine Gun'
A DANGEROUS shooting gun!!
Loved the GPMG, easier to run with than the SLR and a cushty number on SF role - no patrol
WTF are you talking about "easier to run with than the SLR?"
Their American colleagues call L7 GPMG as M240, while neighbouring Canada uses the same weapon as the C6 GPMG. I wonder if you can put parts from the Canadian version C6 & American M240 into the British version L7 GPMG. If yes, then it should have simplified logistics, provided a British army unit was attached to an American or Canadian unit of the same weapon M240🇺🇲 C6🇨🇦 L7🇬🇧
There's been outcry about a standardised intergrated logistics platform since NATO was founded. There's been very little cohesion amongst any of the NATO forces except when it comes to ammunition type for personal firearms - pretty much everyone uses the 5.56mm NATO round, except when you're using 7.62mm NATO like the GPMG. There was once talk of a 'standardised' NATO army, with all the equipment exactly the same back in the 70's, but almost 50 years on, its still not as intergrated as what some people would like to see.
They are all built on the same metric standard so the internal parts and barrels should interchange.
They are the same.
@@SCscoutguy so you are saying that a British L7 GPMG can use bolt from a Canadian C6 and a replacement barrel from M240 while keeping original stock
@@EpicThe112 I am honestly not sure but in theory if they are all built to the same standard then it should be possible. I know the old metric FN FAL's you could swap parts from different weapons made in different countries if they were all metric. The British Commonwealth made theirs in imperial measurements so you could not swap parts from theirs into metric FN FAL's.
Late 60s that was my favourite weapon (RAF Reg) in a team of ten riflemen and a gimpy amazing amount of fire power.
You mean carried it to the mess hall then back to the armoury RAF reg lol
@@playerforty4621 No,he had his valet carry it!
@@playerforty4621 Lol
@@playerforty4621 aaah yes an imbecile that doesn't realize that without the reg, none of the RAF, nor the BAF as a whole, would be able to do their jobs 🤦♂️🤡
Stick to being a dumb grunt stuck in mud, moron 🖕
What's happened to his beret?
DanTDM is that you?
Love it we use to use in in the New Zealand army then they went stupid
Mini me was a lot of fun same with the gpmg (I’m the general using this machine gun with purpose)
It's a nice weapon but it needs some detachable wheels hooked onto it. All of those big guns need that. Save your energy for the rock concert!
Crisp microphone work
MG3: "Hold my beer" 🙃
the MG3 / MG42 used ammo like it was going out of fashion , at least with this ' pedestrian" rate of fire , one doesn't need half the squad as ammo carriers
@@dovidell A good gunner can fire 3-5 round bursts. But yeah, you're right. We have replaced it with M60E6 in our dismounted units. But we still use it as coax guns, on our Leopards and CV90's.. Shooting 1500 RPM.
But.. Still.. In Afghanistan, the Taliban usually pulled back, when they heard a MG3 🙃
I need 10000 of those to buy ok
I absolutely loved this weapon system. Always volunteered to be the gimpy gunner.
Reminds abit of the Bren gun mark 2.
Private Jack Green wears his beret with style and elan..!! 😉
Excellent weapon
Infantry are now just training aids for officers In Canada. RIP my line of work. New guys love the training missions though.
This things years old why are they making videos about it now?
its like the M249s big brother.
Can you make a video on what combat engineers know
Wouldn’t be long enough show. Needs to be longer than 5 seconds.
Then again you can do one on how you eat crayons.
@@Ian20232 you will get wet feet next time you cross a river 😅
@@chrisstrider 😂😂😇😇
A pain in the arse to carry on a cft ….
God put that man on Earth to be a soldier.
GPMG is a general Term - this one is a FN mag
Good machineree
So much lighter than the Vickers Mk1
The Americans have finally switched to this haven't they? Most countries call it the MAG
0:26 the whole receiver is going back and forward????
Didn’t know DanTDM was in the military
he ripped his pants 😄
Rifle man!
Great weapon, never found it too heavy to carry when it's mounted in the turret of a Chieftain tank!! Just curious as to when British troops started wearing cloth caps instead of berets?
That was a beret. Took him ages to get it to that look.
@@tonys1636That was a pretty decent looking beret.I got mine to look fairly decent but there were some shocking looking creatures during my time in the SADF.
He looks a right GOON with that beret "Left wheel, mind your fingers....CLANG" in any decent unit.
Try to ... Hmm... Say something more or like how accurate lethal or just ya we use it
If we armed Richard Sharpe with one of these, would the Russians even be able to get a nuke off in time?
Isn't that a M240 Bravo?
Brill.killer did my training on it in.77 excellent in SF ROLE can't be replaced ❤❤❤❤
How did the weight increase to 13.85 kg? They used to be 10.8 kg.
It includes his beret mate.
Smoothest most beautiful weapon I have ever used. Have had these things white hot. on a tripod, doing SF and they don’t miss a beat. And if you aren’t the biggest guy they will push you over if fired from the shoulder 😂
M249 is a better squad automatic rifle in my humble opinion. It lacks the range and punch of the M240, however in a modern day urban warfare, being compact and lighter has a fair number of advantages.
That lack of punch is why the U.S is looking at moving to a larger 6.8 mm caliber while still retaining the 5.56mm.
@@JDSFLA The new Sig machine gun is pretty damn sick
In the United Kingdom M249 is called L110
I loved my Gimpy that much I gave it a Girls name, one of the Ladies of the Night from the Rose Garden, Belize, Central America. Those that know, know.😎👍💪😋
Royal Anglian 🙏🏻🇬🇧
Adjust the gas washers for higher rates of fire 😅 950 rpm 😮
Great Regiment and a great piece of kit. Used a lot of it while in Iraq 2003. Quick question tho what the heck is with these berets nowadays, looks so silly and stupid. Think it needs stomping out as it looks awful or is it just me that thinks this.
Basically looks like the M249 saw chambered in 7.62 instead of 5.56.
🙄 Except this was delivering death on Operations 20yrs before the SAW was even invented!
What about RPK , m249 Saw, MG3, M2 browning,IWI Negev , Some of these are lighter , some have higher firerate , better rounds , what makes this the " The world's deadliest machine gun" ?
The British special forces mowed down hundreds of Al Qaeda in November 2001 with these machine guns
How is it the deadliest ? There are numerous machine guns with the same firepower, rate of fire, reliability and so on.
Do remember that this is a UK centric channel and obviously it will give pro-British sentiments. Probably not *the* deadliest but as the Pvt says, it's a battle winning asset.
M2 and dshk best best mgs if you wanna go light pkm all day this thing doesn't hold a light to he amount of mayhem a pkm has caused and seen
It's used by practically every western country since the 1960s
Gmgp as it is otherwise known as
Looks like a 240-B
It is, both are a variant of the Belgian FN MAG
Sorry if this is a "dumb question" but I'm asking in all sincerity....why does the military need machine guns?
Can't they be just as effective with semi-automatic weapons?
War is not killing every enemy you ecounter, the purpose of machine gun is for demoralize and stop the enemy from advancing .
To cover an area with a beaten zone of fire. Area denial. You step into it, your ribs will leave your body.
FN MAG. GPMG is just the British name.
No, it is not. GPMG is the class. L7A2 is the British 'name'. M240 for the US. C6 for Canada. MAG58 for FN.
@@kiwigrunt330 L7 is designation. It is known as the GMPG so yes it is it's name. Just like M240 is the US designation.
@@CabbageBloke Just because a car may be a Mazda, doesn't mean that 'car' is its name. The L7, C6, MAG58, M60, MG3 and PKM are all GPMGs.
Mean while russian PKM with same amount of fire power but weights almost as half as the m240 laughs in corner
Err no.
The PKM is 9kg versus the GPMGs 12kg but the PKM has only 65% of the rate of fire with less muzzle velocity and less range.
And ... the PKM build quality is shocking!