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noun
- 1. any air-cooled machine gun with a caliber no greater than .30 inch (7.6 mm).
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Machine gun designed to be employed by an individual soldier
A light machine gun (LMG) is a light-weight machine gun designed to be operated by a single infantryman, with or without an assistant, as an infantry support weapon. LMGs firing cartridges of the same caliber as the other riflemen of the same combat unit are often referred to as squad automatic weapons. Wikipedia