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(I've always been irked by this thing's name. Just swap the H for an S and - *Bam!* - problem solved.)
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==Trivia==
==Trivia==
Though the weapon's name indicates that it is a heavy machine gun, its appearance and usage suggest that it is actually a submachine gun or an assault rifle.
Though the weapon's name indicates that it is a heavy machine gun, its appearance and usage are more akin to man-portable rifles. Its heavy machine gun designation may be based solely upon the cartridge it fires.


==List of appearances==
==List of appearances==

Revision as of 14:36, September 27, 2014

Template:Weapon The Heavy Machine Gun-38 (HMG-38) is an automatic weapon that was formerly used by the UNSC Marine Corps. As of 2525 these weapons were obsolete, though they were popular on the black market. HMG-38s were commonly used by the Eridanus cell of the Insurrectionists.[1]

Trivia

Though the weapon's name indicates that it is a heavy machine gun, its appearance and usage are more akin to man-portable rifles. Its heavy machine gun designation may be based solely upon the cartridge it fires.

List of appearances

Sources

  1. ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 89