High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A light machine gun or LMG is a machine gun designed to be employed by an individual soldier, with or without an assistant, and as a front-line infantry support. LMGs are often used as squad automatic weapons. A light machine gun may be identified either by the weapon or by its tactical role. It is used to fire in short 8 -10 round bursts, usually from a bipod; a sustained-fire mount such as a tripod is a characteristic of a medium machine gun. Some machine guns - notably General purpose machine guns - may be deployed as either a light machine gun or a medium machine gun. As a general rule, if a machine gun is deployed with a bipod it is a light machine gun; if deployed on a tripod it is a medium machine gun - unless it has a caliber of about 10mm or larger, making it a heavy machine gun. Modern light machine guns often fire smaller-caliber cartridges than medium machine guns, and are usually lighter and more compact.

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