Support weapons:

Support weapons are made for supporting land forces. Machine guns, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, all of them belong to this class of weapons.

Most popular support weapons:

PKM

• Caliber: 7,62 x 54 mm
• Magazine capacity: 50 rounds
• Rate of fire: 650 rounds/min
• Weapon length: 1192 mm
• Barrel length: 605 mm
• Mass: 7,5 kg
• Max effective range: 1000 m
• Year produced: 1969.
• Place of origin: USSR

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FN MAG 58

• Caliber: 7,62 x 51 mm
• Magazine capacity: 50 rounds
• Rate of fire: 900 rounds/min
• Weapon length: 1263 mm
• Barrel length: 630 mm
• Mass: 11,79 kg
• Max effective range: 1800 m
• Year produced: 2006.
• Place of origin: Belgium

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M79 Grenade launcher

• Caliber: 40 x 46 mm
• Magazine capacity: 1 grenade
• Rate of fire: depends on the operator
• Weapon length: 731 mm
• Barrel length: 368 mm
• Mass: 2,7 kg
• Max effective range: 350 m
• Year produced: 1961.
• Place of origin: USA

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RPG-7

• Caliber: 40 mm
• Magazine capacity: 1 grenade
• Rate of fire: depends on the operator
• Weapon length: 950 mm
• Barrel length: /
• Mass: 6,3 kg
• Max effective range: 330 m
• Year produced: 1958.
• Place of origin: USSR