M60 machine gun vs Pindad G2: Specs Compared

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ASmall arms

M60 machine gun

General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun

Pindad G2 — licensed reference photograph

BSmall arms

Pindad G2

Handgun

Credit

Komite Kebijakan Industri Pertahanan (KKIP) · Public domain · Resized · Public domain · Source ↗ · Modified

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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Pindad G2G2 Premium

0.222 m

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Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

M60 machine gunlarger figure on 1 of 2

Range+2100%

Measured figures

Head to head

15 of 76 rows sourced on both sides

1.11m

222mmG2 Premium

Length

All recorded figures & sources

1.105 m

Length

Single source

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

0.2 m

G2 Combat

Single source

Configuration

Details

M60 machine gun and Pindad G2 configuration
Specification	M60 machine gun	Pindad G2
Type	General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun^[source]	Handgun^[source]
Place of origin	United States^[source]	Indonesia^[source]
In service	1960–present^[source]	2011–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]	—

Designed	1952–1957^[source]	—

Manufacturer	Saco Defense U.S. Ordnance^[source]	Pindad^[source]

Unit cost	US$6,000 (M60E3)^[source]	—

Produced	1957–present^[source]	—

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

Cartridge	7.62×51mm NATO^[source]	9×19mm Parabellum^[source]

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

Feed system	Disintegrating belt with M13 Links^[source]	15-round magazine^[source]

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

Designer	—	Pindad^[source]

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