M60 machine gun vs MAS-49 rifle: Specs Compared

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ASmall arms

M60 machine gun

General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun

MAS-49 rifle — licensed reference photograph

BSmall arms

MAS-49 rifle

Semi-automatic rifle

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First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

M60 machine gunLength

1.105 m

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MAS-49 rifleMAS-49

1.1 m

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Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

M60 machine gunlarger figure on 3 of 3

Range+175%

Measured figures

Head to head

24 of 94 rows sourced on both sides

1.11m

1.1mMAS-49

Length

All recorded figures & sources

1.105 m

Length

Single source

1,105 mm (43.5 in)^[source]

1.1 m

MAS-49

Single source

Configuration

Details

M60 machine gun and MAS-49 rifle configuration
Specification	M60 machine gun	MAS-49 rifle
Type	General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun^[source]	Semi-automatic rifle^[source]
Place of origin	United States^[source]	France^[source]
In service	1960–present^[source]	1951–1979 (as standard French service rifle)^[source]
Used by	See Users^[source]	See Users

Wars	Vietnam War Laotian Civil War Dominican Civil War Cambodian Civil War Moro conflict The Troubles Lebanese Civil War Cambodian–Vietnamese War Sino-Vietnamese War Salvadoran Civil War Operation Urgent Fury Operation Just Cause Persian Gulf War Operation Gothic Serpent War in Afghanistan Iraq War Cambodian–Thai border stand-off Colombian armed conflict Insurgency in the Philippines Bougainville conflict Myanmar conflict various others^[source]	First Indochina War Algerian War Suez Crisis Cyprus Emergency 1958 Lebanon Crisis Vietnam War Laotian Civil War Cambodian Civil War Rhodesian Bush War Eritrean War of Independence Chadian Civil War Shaba II Lebanese Civil War Syrian Civil War^[source]

Designed	1952–1957^[source]	—

Manufacturer	Saco Defense U.S. Ordnance^[source]	Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne^[source]

Unit cost	US$6,000 (M60E3)^[source]	—

Produced	1957–present^[source]	1949–1965^[source]

Variants	See Variants^[source]	MAS-49 MAS-49/56 MAS-49 Syrian contract^[source]

Cartridge	7.62×51mm NATO^[source]	7.5×54mm French .308 ( Century Arms mass conversions)^[source]

Action	Gas-operated , short-stroke gas piston, opened rotating bolt^[source]	Direct impingement gas operation , tilting bolt^[source]

Feed system	Disintegrating belt with M13 Links^[source]	10-round detachable box magazine^[source]

Sights	Iron sights^[source]	Iron sights adjustable from 200 to 1,200 m (660 to 3,940 ft) Removable APX(SOM) telescopic sights^[source]

No. built	—	~80,000 (MAS-49) 275,240 (MAS-49/56)^[source]

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