M60 machine gun vs NSV machine gun: Specs Compared

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ASmall arms

M60 machine gun

General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun

BSmall arms

NSV machine gun

Heavy machine gun

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Vitaly V. Kuzmin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Resized · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source ↗ · Modified

First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

M60 machine gunLength

1.105 m

Length source ↗

NSV machine gunLength

1.56 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

M60 machine gunlarger figure on 1 of 4

Muzzle velocity+1%

NSV machine gunlarger figure on 3 of 4

Length+41%
Calibre+67%
Rate of fire+25%

Counts only measures both sources give with the same scope. A larger figure is not a better system.

Measured figures

Head to head

26 of 107 rows sourced on both sides

1.11m

1.56m

Length+41%

All recorded figures & sources

1.105 m

Length

Single source

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

1.56 m

Length

Single source

Configuration

Details

M60 machine gun and NSV machine gun configuration
Specification	M60 machine gun	NSV machine gun
Type	General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun^[source]	Heavy machine gun^[source]
Place of origin	United States^[source]	Soviet Union^[source]
In service	1960–present^[source]	1971–present^[source]
Used by	See Users^[source]	See Users^[source]

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]	Soviet–Afghan War First Nagorno-Karabakh War Gulf War Afghan Civil War War in Afghanistan Lebanese Civil War Iraq War Russo-Georgian War Syrian Civil War Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017) Russo-Ukrainian War Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) Russo-Ukrainian war^[source]

Designed	1952–1957^[source]	Central Design Bureau of Sports and Hunting Weaponry , Tula , 1969^[source]

Manufacturer	Saco Defense U.S. Ordnance^[source]	West-Kazakhstan machine building company JSC (ZKMK)^[source]

Unit cost	US$6,000 (M60E3)^[source]	—

Produced	1957–present^[source]	1971–present^[source]

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

Cartridge	7.62×51mm NATO^[source]	12.7×108mm 12.7×99mm NATO (For Polish WKM-B)^[source]

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

Feed system	Disintegrating belt with M13 Links^[source]	50-round belt^[source]

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

Designer	—	G.I. Nikitin, Y.М. Sokolov, V.I. Volkov^[source]

Alternative designation	—	NSV^[source]

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