The M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, or SAW, is an individually portable, gas operated, magazine or disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, light machine gun with fixed headspace and quick change ...

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Light machine guns such as the US M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) made by FN Manufacturing ... A heavy machine gun that fires more than 100 rounds a minute, by contrast, makes two soldiers ...

"We haven't fielded a gun in this magnitude to the close combat ... Army is expected to continue its use of the 5.56mm M4 and M249 SAW for the foreseeable future, officials have said.