Saco Defense M60

"' If I had to point my nose at when patriotism is not good, I would toward the pig. As dirty and consumming as it is, it would never ceases to be starving for .308 ... and elaborated maintenance. Oh and everybody, even in it's glory days, recognized that it was not the best design. ' - The Range's Dealer"The Saco Defense M60 is an american General Purpose Machine Gun.

In Real Life Developement
After World War 2, everybody was looking at the Nazis's arsenal during World War 2 and the United States of America were no exception. The concept of General Purpose Machine Gun really left the US Army thirsty to replace the Browning M1918 BAR, which was an Automatic Rifle. By commitee, heavy influence from the MG42 and FG42 in particular led to what would be known as the T161, aka M60.

To say that the M60 was the true winner of the competition is false however, as the M60 (much like the M14) got picked up of domestical bias rather than pure efficienty and it definitively shown up during the years that would follow. When they were brand new (Vietnam War in particular), there weren't too much reliability problems and while the M60 was a dream compared to the Browning Automatic Rifle, they were a thing regardless. However, ergonomical problems were apparent from the get-go. The most notorious ergonomic issue was the quick-change barrel's excessive weight due to the bipod being mounted on (which was rectified in later versions). Once the 80s approached, the reliability problems became visible very quickly. From the questionable quality control all the way up to the poor training reality, the end result was more than enough to make it replaced by the FN MAG, the competitor that got denied all these years ago. The M60, through late iterations, lives on though.

In-game Developement
One of the earliest machine guns in Rodblogan Warfare, the M60's existence can be traced back to the Pre-Alpha, alongside the FN Minimi, C9A2, SMG830 (which later evolved into a later War Trophy) and RPK. However the M60 was used extensively for belt-fed mechanics and is Aerodos12's preference GPMG.

The M60 didn't changed too much until the Beta, where it really started to change in every single ways. Like all guns, all iterations shown up and the absurd level of details took for granted by Arch's reworks arrived.