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Originally Posted by jwt5
All the companies in my battalion, with the exception of us (thanks Top!) traded their M2s for M240s back in 2004. They said is was due to ease of use. Of course come convoy time who were they calling?  |
I liked having the M2 in the front Hummv and the M240 in the rear Hummv mainly the M2 up front covered forward so it could blast other cars if needed and the M240 in the rear could cover roof tops at close range much easyer then the 50.cal could, But the main reason of having a M240 along instead of a 2ed M2 or a MK19 is you can dismount with it. we also took the rear turtle shell off our uparmor's and put a rear facing M249 with a dude in a armored seat in the back of each hummv.
A M240 with a zero'd PEQ-2 laser on it is way better for night ops in my opinion.
I was also looking into having a mount made that would hold a M240 and have a off set barret M107 so I could switch between the Two weapon systems. then I wouldent need to mess with having the
M2 at all.
We also rolled with M79 grenade launchers up in the turret.
My .02 cents