M60 machine gun vs Steyr HS .50: Specs Compared

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ASmall arms

M60 machine gun

General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun

Steyr HS .50 — licensed reference photograph

BSmall arms

Steyr HS .50

Anti-materiel rifle

Credit

Steyr Mannlicher · CC BY 2.0 · Resized · CC BY 2.0 · 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 ↗

Steyr HS .50Length

1.37 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

M60 machine gunlarger figure on 0 of 3

None

Steyr HS .50larger figure on 3 of 3

Length+24%
Mass+18%
Barrel length+49%

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

Measured figures

Head to head

17 of 90 rows sourced on both sides

1.11m

1.37m

Length+24%

All recorded figures & sources

1.105 m

Length

Single source

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

1.37 m

Length

Single source

Configuration

Details

M60 machine gun and Steyr HS .50 configuration
Specification	M60 machine gun	Steyr HS .50
Type	General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun^[source]	Anti-materiel rifle^[source]
Place of origin	United States^[source]	Austria^[source]
In service	1960–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

Designed	1952–1957^[source]	—

Manufacturer	Saco Defense U.S. Ordnance^[source]	Steyr Mannlicher Defense Industries Organization (Iranian copy) Golan Rifle Plant (Syrian copy)^[source]

Unit cost	US$6,000 (M60E3)^[source]	—

Produced	1957–present^[source]	2004^[source]

Variants	See Variants^[source]	HS .460 HS .50 M1^[source]

Cartridge	7.62×51mm NATO^[source]	.50 BMG .460 Steyr^[source]

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

Feed system	Disintegrating belt with M13 Links^[source]	Single shot (HS .50, HS .460) 5 round detachable box magazine (HS .50 M1)^[source]

Sights	Iron sights^[source]	—

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