Editing FN MAG (section)

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{{Infobox weapon
| name               = FN MAG
| image              = File:FN MAG Machine Gun Left.jpg
| caption            = An FN MAG with modern polymer furniture
| type               = [[General-purpose machine gun]]
<!-- Type selection -->| service            = 1958–present
| wars               = *[[Congo Crisis]]
*[[Indonesia–Malaysia Confrontation]]
*[[Rhodesian Bush War]]
*[[South African Border War]]
*[[Six-Day War]]
*[[Nigerian Civil War]]<ref name="auto">{{cite book|last=Jowett|first=Philip|title=Modern African Wars (5): The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-70|year=2016|publisher=[[Osprey Publishing]] Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-1472816092|page=20}}</ref>
*[[Vietnam War]]
*[[War of Attrition]]
*[[Yom Kippur War]]
*[[The Troubles]]
*[[Falklands War]]
*[[Lebanese Civil War]]
*[[Salvadoran Civil War]]
*[[Sri Lankan civil war|Sri Lankan Civil War]]
*[[Liberian Civil War (disambiguation)|Liberian Civil Wars]]
*[[Gulf War]]
*[[Sierra Leone Civil War]]
*[[Burundian Civil War]]<ref name="SAS 2007 6">{{cite book|url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2007.html|chapter-url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2007/en/full/Small-Arms-Survey-2007-Chapter-06-EN.pdf|chapter=Armed Violence in Burundi: Conflict and Post-Conflict Bujumbura|title=The Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=2007|author=Small Arms Survey|page=204|isbn=978-0-521-88039-8|access-date=2018-08-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827001033/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2007.html|archive-date=2018-08-27|url-status=live|author-link=Small Arms Survey}}</ref>
*[[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)]]
*[[Iraq War]]
*[[Cambodian–Thai border dispute]]
*[[Kivu conflict]]
*[[Libyan civil war (2011)|Libyan Civil War]]
*[[Syrian civil war]]<ref name="youtube.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKbDEkNuA5Y| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211107/WKbDEkNuA5Y| archive-date=2021-11-07 | url-status=live|title=فرقة الحمزة بعد صد عدة محاولات لمليشا النظام على قرية التفريعة|last=الفيلق الثاني الفرقة الثانية|date=12 June 2017|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
**[[Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon|Spillover in Lebanon]]<ref>{{cite news |title="فجر الجرود": "حزب الله" يسعف جنود الجيش اللبناني |url=https://www.alaraby.co.uk/"فجر-الجرود"-"حزب-الله"-يسعف-جنود-الجيش-اللبناني |access-date=25 May 2024 |work=www.alaraby.co.uk/ |language=ar}}</ref>
*[[Russo-Ukrainian War]]<!-- Production history -->
| designer           = [[Dieudonné Saive]], Ernest Vervier
| number             = 200,000+<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fnherstal.com/primary-menu/products-capabilities/machine-guns/general/product/306/233/306/2/_/fn-magR-standard.html |title=FN MAG® Standard - FN Herstal |access-date=2014-01-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024104646/http://www.fnherstal.com/primary-menu/products-capabilities/machine-guns/general/product/306/233/306/2/_/fn-magR-standard.html |archive-date=2013-10-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| length             = {{convert|1263|mm|in|abbr=on}}
| width              = {{convert|118.7|mm|abbr=on|1}}
| height             = {{convert|263|mm|abbr=on|1}}
<!-- Ranged weapon specifications -->| action             = [[Gas-operated reloading|Gas-operated]] [[Gas-operated reloading#Long-stroke|long-stroke piston]], [[open bolt]]
| image_size         = 300
| origin             = Belgium
| is_ranged          = yes
<!-- Service history -->| used_by            = See ''[[#Users|Users]]''
| design_date        = 1950
| manufacturer       = {{Plainlist|
* [[FN Herstal]]
* [[Colt Canada]]
* [[Fabricaciones Militares]]
* [[Heckler & Koch]]
* [[U.S. Ordnance]]
* [[Ordnance Factory Board]]
* [[Royal Small Arms Factory]]
* [[Barrett Firearms Manufacturing]]
}}
| production_date    = 1958–present
| variants           = See ''[[#Variants|Variants]]''
<!-- General specifications -->| weight             = {{convert|11.8|kg|lb|2|abbr=on}}
| part_length        = {{convert|630|mm|abbr=on|1}}
| cartridge          = [[7.62×51mm NATO]]
| rate               = 650–1,000&nbsp;rounds/min
| velocity           = {{convert|840|m/s|0|abbr=on}}
| range              = {{convert|800|m|yd|0||abbr=on}} ([[bipod]])<br />{{cvt|1,800|m|yd|0}} ([[tripod]])
| max_range          = {{convert|3500|m|yd|0|abbr=on}}<ref name="Austria" />
| feed               = Non-disintegrating DM1 or disintegrating [[M13 link]]ed belt
| sights             = Folding leaf sight with aperture and notch, front blade
}}

The '''FN MAG''' ({{langx|fr|Mitrailleuse d'Appui Général}}, {{langx|en|General Purpose Machine Gun}}, {{Literal translation|Machine gun for general support}}) is a Belgian [[7.62 mm calibre|7.62&nbsp;mm]] [[general-purpose machine gun]], designed in the early 1950s at [[Fabrique Nationale de Herstal|Fabrique Nationale (FN)]] by Ernest Vervier. It has been used by more than 80 countries and it has been made under licence in several countries, including Argentina, Canada (as the '''C6 GPMG'''), Egypt, India, and the United Kingdom.<ref name="hogg2002">Hogg, Ian (2002). ''Jane's Guns Recognition Guide''. Jane's Information Group. {{ISBN|0-00-712760-X}}.</ref>

The MAG is available in three primary versions: the standard, infantry '''Model 60-20''' machine gun, the '''Model 60-40''' coaxial machine gun for [[armoured fighting vehicle]]s, and the '''Model 60-30''' aircraft variant.