M60 machine gun vs MAT-49: Specs Compared

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ASmall arms

M60 machine gun

General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun

BSmall arms

MAT-49

Submachine gun

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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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MAT-49Length · source measurement 2

0.72 m

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Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

M60 machine gunlarger figure on 2 of 3

Range

Measured figures

Head to head

27 of 102 rows sourced on both sides

1.11m

720mmLength · source measurement 2

Length

All recorded figures & sources

1.105 m

Length

Single source

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

0.46 m

Length · source measurement 1

Single source

Configuration

Details

M60 machine gun and MAT-49 configuration
Specification	M60 machine gun	MAT-49
Type	General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun^[source]	Submachine gun^[source]
Place of origin	United States^[source]	France^[source]
In service	1960–present^[source]	1949–Present^[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 Korean War Suez Crisis 1958 Lebanon Crisis Algerian War Vietnam War Laotian Civil War Cambodian Civil War Sino-Vietnamese War Portuguese Colonial War Basque conflict Rhodesian Bush War Western Sahara War Shaba II Chadian–Libyan conflict Lebanese Civil War Algerian Civil War Libyan Civil War Syrian Civil War Mali War Central African Republic Civil War (2012–present)^[source]

Designed	1952–1957^[source]	1947-1949^[source]

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

Unit cost	US$6,000 (M60E3)^[source]	—

Produced	1957–present^[source]	1949–1973^[source]

Variants	See Variants^[source]	See Variants^[source]

Cartridge	7.62×51mm NATO^[source]	9×19mm Parabellum 7.62×25mm Tokarev (PAVN converted)^[source]

Action	Gas-operated , short-stroke gas piston, opened rotating bolt^[source]	Blowback , open bolt^[source]

Feed system	Disintegrating belt with M13 Links^[source]	20 or 32 rounds 35 rounds (PAVN converted)^[source]

Sights	Iron sights^[source]	Iron sights^[source]

Designer	—	Pierre Monteil^[source]

No. built	—	~ 100,000^[source]

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