NullJeager wrote:
Take it back to the workshop and slow down the cyclic rate, it's gotta be cheaper than some of the alternatives. I know they are looking for a Squad Automatic weapon, but there is a Spanish MG42/MG3 derivative that fires 5.56 called the Ameli, manufactured by CETME (I think). The M60 was a rip off of the MG42 and it had a roughly similar cyclic rate as what they are asking for, retooling sh*t shouldn't be much bother.
No offence Null but there is a lot of myth involved in that post. The only thing the M60 had in common with the MG42 (apart from that it fired bullets down a barrel) was the belt feed, which wasn't an exact copy but a modified version of it....which was also common to many designs of the time,