purchased. : Used by Portuguese Army on Pandur II IFV and Leopard 2A6 tank and by the Portuguese Navy on the Karel Doorman-class frigates. : Sierra Leone Army used ex-British L7A2 GPMG. Some were captured by rebels. : In use by Singapore Armed Forces and Police Coast Guard. Licensed production carried out by Ordnance Development and Engineering Company of Singapore, now integrated to ST Engineering. Two versions produced, one infantry assault variant fitted with a bi-pod, the other co-axial model for armored vehicle or vehicle mountings. One MAG is issued to each rifle platoon. It is always referred to as GPMG or simply MG. ST Engineering manufacture it as the 7.62 General Purpose Machine Gun. : Used by the Spanish Army Airmobile Force and the Spanish Marine Infantry. : Used by the Swedish Armed Forces, license made in Sweden and designated as the Ksp 58 (short for "Kulspruta", Swedish for "Machine gun" of model 1958). : produced locally as T74 GPMG. : Used by the Royal Thai Army, designated as the Type 38 General-purpose machine gun (ปก.38) in 1995. : unspecified number received during the Russian invasion in 2022. : Used by the U.S. Military, designated as the M240. See also FN Minimi—FN MAG scaled down to 5.56 NATO Mk 48 machine gun—FN Minimi in 7.62×51mm NATO for United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) FN EVOLYS—Lightweight weapon IWI Negev and Negev-NG7—Israel weapon Type 67 machine gun, QJY-88, QJS-161 and QJY-201—Chinese weapon Sumitomo NTK-62—an outwardly similar Japanese weapon Heckler & Koch MG5—A German derivative designed for French and German armed forces new general purpose machine gun trials PKM and PKP Pecheneg machine gun—Russian squad automatic weapons Vektor SS-77—A South African weapon designed as replacement for the FN-MAG References Citations Bibliography External links FN Herstal official site Modern Firearms Video of the Canadian C6 GPMG C6 tracer fire Canadians exercise with the C6 Video of the L7A2 GPMG in British service 7.62×51mm NATO machine guns Infantry weapons of the Cold War MAG General-purpose machine guns Machine guns of Belgium Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1958