Developed for infantry support and used sparingly in World War I since it was introduced so late, the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) became a force to be reckoned with as a companion for U.S. troops ...

Key Point: In fact, some in the military want to bring back a modernized version. World War I is often called “the machine gun war” because of the devastating use of automatic weapons such as the ...

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Key Point: Eventually, the M60 general-purpose machine gun replaced the BAR, as did the M240 and M249 series of squad-level machine guns. But the BAR is far from gone and forgotten. World War I is ...