Talk:Crew-served weapon

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Crew-served weapon would be better. "Crew served weapon" is the headline to a news story about an airline steward stabbed with a salad fork, no? . The unspoken context here is that there are now weapons that are not crew-served weapons: there is no identification of what they might entail, and no link to them. --Wetman 2 July 2005 01:52 (UTC)

Much of this article seems dubious. The phrase "crew-served weapon" refers to a large infantry support weapon, like a machine gun or mortar. Perhaps it is also used for something like a naval gun. But an aircraft is not a "crew-served weapon". Intelligence, and command and control are certainly not classes of crew-served weapons, they are subjects in military science. "All military forces are, broadly speaking, crew-served weapons"—that's just a silly statement. —Michael Z. 2006-02-22 17:13 Z

I absolutely agree, and have edited the article. How can one change the title to "crew-served"? GMan552 05:58, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The term "crew served" such as "Shoulder fired weapons" refers to items like old bazookas or recoiless rifles where a loader is involved. The stinger and redeye systems can be carried by 2 personnel, but in Airborne units they were jumped in by the same jumper with the tracker head and missile. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.199.178.178 (talk) 18:18, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Crew served weapons can still be small arms

To my knowledge, at least as far as the US Army or Marines are concerned, firearms like the MK 19 belt fed automatic grenade launcher - which is a crew served weapon fired from a turret or tripod - are still considered small arms.

I'm not sure if this is the same for other militaries, but perhaps the bottom section referencing small arms and personal weapons should be amended.

https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/small-arms-crew-served-weapons/

71.210.205.191 (talk) 13:55, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]