M240



The M240 is the American designation for the Belgian-made FN MAG. It fires the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge and is usually found mounted on vehicles or emplacements, but is also employed by USMC rifle companies on a smaller scale in machine gun teams. The M240 appears multiple times in the Battlefield Series as a coaxial weapon and appears as an infantry weapon.

Battlefield 2
The M240C is a weapon featured as a coaxial mount alongside the main gun on the M1A2 Abrams in Battlefield 2. It is very similar if not identical to the other coaxial machine guns in the game, with infinite ammo, a specific overheat point, and fair infantry damage.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2
The M240C appears as a coaxial mount alongside the main gun on the M1A2 Abrams in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. It may only be attached when the specialization Alternate Weapon Package is chosen.

Battlefield Play4Free
The M240B is a purchasable Elite light machine gun for the Medic Kit in Battlefield Play4Free. It features the largest magazine out of any infantry weapon in the game, as well as the longest range and highest accuracy, tied with the M249. It also has high damage, with its DPS as the highest amongst all LMGs. It has the price of 1249 for unlimited use. However, due to it having a very large magazine, the weapon is very good at providing suppressive fire. The weapon also features a tan paint scheme along much of the upper and lower receivers, but unlike most Elite weapons, its appearance is more worn. Since the Dec 1st, 2011 update, the M240B features a black paint scheme.

M240C
Appears mounted along the main gun on the M1A2 Abrams.

Battlefield 3
"The M240B is a General Purpose Machine Gun that was first developed in Belgium and adopted by the USMC in 1991. The M60 was replaced first by the M240G, and subsequently by the M240B which provides commonality between the Marines and the US Army. Firing the heavier 7.62x51mm NATO rounds the M240B has greater power than the M249. The M240B is equipped with a bipod by default for supported shooting."

- Battlelog description

The M240B is a weapon featured in Battlefield 3.

Singleplayer
The M240B is seen as PFC. Montes' primary weapon. It is at almost no point usable by the player in the campaign. During the pre-alpha Operation Swordbreaker seen in the "Fault Line" trailers, Black defends his squad against a PLR assault with an M240B equipped with a Holographic Sight, Bipod, and Extended Magazine; however, he uses instead an M249 SAW in the final game. Montes' M240B can be picked up (albeit for just a few seconds) in Operation Swordbreaker when confronting the sniper.

If the player misses with the rocket, or takes too long trying to kill the sniper, Montes is killed and he drops his weapon. Christian Matkovic is seen manning an M240B with no optic attached in the mission Night Shift. Blackburn is seen using Montes' M240B in the mission Fear No Evil. However, the player can't use it due to the fact that the playable protagonist in the mission is Jonathan Miller.

Multiplayer
The M240B is unlocked after reaching 90,000 Support score as the third LMG unlocked. It is one of the high-damage, moderate rate of fire, high-recoil medium machine guns, alongside the M60 and the, more-or-less faction-opposite, PKP Pecheneg; by default it possesses a 100-round belt of ammunition.

In its group of medium machine guns the M240B has the highest fire rate and highest recoil; its high fire rate and damage give it the lowest time-to-kill, second in the game only to the FAMAS. In addition, it also features the highest bullet velocity of the 7.62mm machine guns, and thereby the greatest range.

As of the December Soldier Upgrade, players will be able to equip on the M240B the Desert Stripe Camo by default and can also equip the Woodland Oak Camo once the M240B Specialist assignment is completed.

M240C
The M240C is mounted on the LAV-25, M1128 MGS as passenger weapons. It can also be mounted as a Coaxial LMG for the vehicles mentioned before, along with the M1A2 Abrams. The gunner position of the AAV-7A1 AMTRAC has the M240C as its secondary weapon alongside the Mk 19 40mm Grenade Launcher.

Battlefield 4
The M240B is a weapon featured in Battlefield 4.

Singleplayer
The M240B is found as a collectible in Singapore. It is found on top of the parking garage by snaking around the thing, stone awning on the side closest to the sea. It is equipped with a HOLO, Muzzle Brake and Bipod. It sports an Atomic Autumn finish.

Multiplayer
It performs similarly to its Battlefield 3 counterpart, having a moderate rate of fire, but high stopping power being able to kill most opponents within 4 shots. It has the highest damage counter of all the LMGs doing 34 damage per bullet. However the M240B also suffers from having one of the highest vertical recoils of any automatic weapon in Battlefield 4, alongside with the highest spread increase per shot, making sustained bursts without making use of a bipod a less viable option than most other LMG's.

However, the M240B has a 0.5 initial recoil multiplier, which may make recoil management substantially easier at longer ranges by tapfiring. The Muzzle Brake may be a profitable attachment for the weapon, as it will reduce vertical recoil, however this comes at cost of increasing spread during automatic fire substantially, at which the M240 already suffers heavily. Players who have substantial experience at handling recoil may want to try using the M240B with a Heavy Barrel in order to substantially increase its long range potential.

Regardless of barrel modification however, the grip of choice should generally be either the stubby or potato grip in order to remedy the automatic fire spread, as the M240B gains very little benefit of an angled grip to reduce an already extremely low initial recoil multiplier, and the movement penalty will be ill suited for firing at anything beyond close range regardless of whether or not an ergo/folding grip is equipped.

Battlefield Hardline
The M240B is a weapon featured in Battlefield Hardline.

Battlefield 4

 * As of March 2014, there is a glitch that allows one to attach a Magnifier with a PRISMA (3.4x) or M145. But in order to do it, one needs to equip a 1x optic, then the 2X magnification, then attach the Prisma/M145 sight. Using it is very difficult, however, due to the misalignment of the crosshairs of the Sight when the magnifier is aimed down. However, it will give the player a higher-than-usual magnification of 5.4x.