Grendel LMG

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You're going to love this guys...

http://www.army.mil/article/67318/_Ironm...ttlefield/

I'm not sure who did it first though...

The first such pack I remember seeing was that worn by Jesse Ventura in the 1987 movie, Predator.

There was also a photo of a guy with a backpack like that, and an M60 in his hands, on the cover of Machine Gun News in the late '80s or early '90s.

IIRC, my buddy proposed doing it during one of our discussions in the late '70s. Although that idea never went beyond the talking stage, he actually did something somewhat similar when he was an M60 gunner in Vietnam. It was common to have a "starter belt" of about 25-30 rounds loaded in the gun when going on patrol, then when that was fired up during contact, a full 100-rd belt would be loaded. He wasn't content with that SOP, so he scrounged an issue buttpack, fixed a strap to it, and slung it over his right shoulder so that the pack rested on his left hip. Filled with 300 rounds of continuous-linked ammo, it not only balanced the weight of the machine gun, but also gave him a capability for sustained fire unmatched by any other M60 gunner in that war.

Imagine that with Grendel flowing from it, pushing 144 FMJ's out of a high-pressure-capable LMG that weighs half of the SAW and Mk.48, with a constant recoil mechanism. Release the eeeeeeeeevil....

Yeah. Too bad a 6.5 Grendel LMG is only imaginary.