Denmark has selected the US Ordnance M60E6 as the Royal Danish Army's new light machine gun. Source: Royal Danish Army
10 March 2014 Remigiusz Wilk, Warsaw - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
The Danish Defence Forces (Forsvaret) have selected the US Ordnance M60E6 machine gun (MG) to replace its ageing LMG m/62 (Rheinmetall MG3) 7.62 mm squad support weapons, it was announced on 7 March.
The M60E6 is the latest generation of the M60, first adopted by the US Army in 1957. The US weapon was selected over the Heckler & Koch HK121 I ('Infanterie'), a squad support variant of the German HK121 general purpose machine gun, following a trial programme.
The delivery of the first M60E6 MGs, to be called LMG m/14 in Danish service, is expected by the end of 2014.
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