Coaxial LMG (Specialization)

Battlefield: Bad Company 2
"A weapons package that upgrades the targeting systems of vehicles and helicopters. It extends the effective range and accuracy of mounted weapons."

- In-game description

The Alternate Weapon Package (or known as V Alt W in game) is a vehicle specialization featured in Battlefield: Bad Company 2, obtained after acquiring 10,000 experience points with any vehicle or stationary weapon emplacement. When activated, it allows the driver of a vehicle or the co-pilot of an attack helicopter to use a second weapon.

For MBTs (Main Battle Tanks), this adds a co-axial machine gun for the driver to use. For light tanks, either a BGM-71 TOW or 9M133 Kornet missile launcher is added. The UAV-1 gains the ability to fire a machine gun in addition to the rocket.

Attack helicopter pilots gain a guided Hellfire missile system; the co-pilot gains the ability to launch a tracer dart onto which the pilot-launched missile can lock unless they have a different active specialization.



This is an active specialization, meaning it can only be used by the driver (except in the case of attack helicopters, as previously described) of the vehicle, and it must be activated by user input to function. It does not function on armored cars, naval vessels, or Quad Bikes as none of them have driver-mounted weapons.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam
The specialization is referred to as the V-Flame in the Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam expansion. It only provides a benefit on the MBTs, the M48 Patton and the T-54. In these vehicles it provides a flamethrower-like attachment on to the tank's main cannon. This specialization is useful for counter-infantry, anti-foliage and light vehicle combat.

The tank-mounted flamethrower reaches five meters further than the M2-2 Flamethrower, 20 meters total. The flame projectiles from both weapons travel at the same rate (50 m/s)—the tank's projectiles last 0.1 second longer.

Battlefield 3
"A light machinegun mounted coaxially to your main weapon."

- Battlelog Description Coaxial LMG is a specialization that provides an MBT, IFV or Tank Destroyer driver with an anti-infantry secondary weapon. Depending on the vehicle, either the M240C or PKT light machine gun is mounted in-line with the vehicle's main weapon. They can be used by M1 Abrams and T-90 MBTs, the LAV-25 and BMP-2M IFVs as well as the M1128 Mobile Gun System and the 2S25 Sprut Tank Destroyers.

Its high volume of fire provides excellent suppression against infantry, at the cost of the occasional overheat. The reticle is composed of a partial crosshair and box corners with a center dot.

Each bullet inflicts 15.6–20.0 damage, somewhat less than the infantry LMGs. However, tank users benefit from completely steady fire free of recoil, and the tank's armor and mobility. The 610 m/s muzzle velocity is comparable to the M240B, average among LMGs.

Battlefield 4
"Attaches a 7.62mm light machinegun to your main cannon for enhanced anti-infantry capability."

- E3 2013 alpha gameplay

The Coaxial LMG is a vehicle specialization featured in Battlefield 4, functioning similarly to the one seen the Battlefield 3.