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general-purpose machine gun

machine gun adaptable for several light and medium roles
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general-purpose machine gun

Summary

general-purpose machine gun is a weapon type[1]. It draws 478 Wikipedia views per month (weapon_type category, ranking #152 of 694).[2]

Key Facts

  • general-purpose machine gun's image is recorded as Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-559-1076-29, Russland, Fallschirmjäger mit MG und Munitionsgurt.jpg[3].
  • general-purpose machine gun's instance of is recorded as weapon type[4].
  • general-purpose machine gun's subclass of is recorded as machine gun[5].
  • general-purpose machine gun's Commons category is recorded as General purpose machine guns[6].
  • general-purpose machine gun's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03b40[7].
  • general-purpose machine gun's topic's main category is recorded as Category:General-purpose machine guns[8].
  • general-purpose machine gun's KBpedia ID is recorded as MachineGun-GeneralPurpose[9].

Why It Matters

general-purpose machine gun draws 478 Wikipedia views per month (weapon_type category, ranking #152 of 694).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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