M60 machine gun vs Walther P38: Specs Compared | ForceTally

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ASmall arms

M60 machine gun

General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun

Walther P38 — licensed reference photograph

BSmall arms

Walther P38

Semi-automatic pistol

Credit

Askild Antonsen · 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 ↗

Walther P38Length

0.216 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

M60 machine gunlarger figure on 3 of 3

Length+412%

Measured figures

Head to head

23 of 84 rows sourced on both sides

1.11m

216mm

Length+412%

All recorded figures & sources

1.105 m

Length

Single source

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

0.216 m

Length

Single source

Configuration

Details

M60 machine gun and Walther P38 configuration
Specification	M60 machine gun	Walther P38
Type	General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun^[source]	Semi-automatic pistol^[source]
Place of origin	United States^[source]	Nazi Germany^[source]
In service	1960–present^[source]	1939–1945 (Nazi Germany) 1949–present (other countries)^[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]	World War II First Indochina War Algerian War Portuguese Colonial War Rhodesian Bush War Vietnam War (limited) The Troubles 1958 Lebanon crisis Lebanese Civil War War in Afghanistan Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017) (P1)^[source]

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