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    Looks like a Mk3 with the bipod disassembled leaving only the head fitted.

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    Link to pic is down for me can you re up please ?

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    Here you are Kev, photo belongs to getty images, if there is any copyright probs, mods please remove.


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    Interesting spent brass catcher bag !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    We had the early M-60's in Australiaicon in the 60's and they were dire compared to the then new GPMG's. The latest M-60 is a vast improvement and we have a couple of them at Warminster. But, alas, still not a patch in the GPMG........
    And the proof of how bad the M60's are Peter, is in the fact that the US now also use the GPMG. In the guise of the M240! Better also, I would say, in N.A.T.O spares interchangability. Yes, some componants are different because of FN M.A.G variation. BUT, the important 'Bit's that matter are the same! 'Imitation, is the Sincerest for of Flattery'........

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    Can any of you RAF types identify the helicopter that it's mounted in? We had those Belvedere thinggies in Malaya and although I never knowingly flew in one, they just looked about as aerodynamic as a piano to me. They flew everywhere with 6 or 8 of those huge 44 gallon containers full of petrol lashed into the front of the working bay, presumably so that they could decant it if they ran out of petrol. I know that when they landed close to civilization, they had to have a proper fire-engine present unlike everything else where you just had a wheely-bin like fire thing. I remember being told that a fierce tracker dog got loose in one once, got a bit frightened (they went everywhere in the helicopters.....) and went ape-sh-t. Snapping and snarling and biting all and sundry until one bloody and even angrier Maori jumped on it - in mid air no less - and throttled it to death.

    Yes......... what helicopter is it?

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    Looking at the space available, it could even be a airplane rather than a chopper.

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    Is the rank badge on his wrist any clue?

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    The badge looks like a Air Load Master wing on a Warrant Officer badge or Flt Sgt as I'd expect ALMs with the rank of Sgt to have woven cotton badges. With me being a current RAF NCO I dont recognise these older badges.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    Yes......... what helicopter is it?
    It's Westland Belvedere People say, that Hispano gun also was mounted in Belvedere

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