Machine Gun Theory Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Sustained Rate of Fire -
correct answer ✅Application: The gunner's normal rate of fire.
Maintenance: Pause for 4-5 seconds between bursts.
Barrel: Change Barrel after 10 min sustained rate.
Rapid Rate of Fire -
correct answer ✅Application: Works best when the gunner is
trying to establish fire superiority.
Maintenance: 2-3 seconds between bursts.
Barrel: Change after 2 minutes.
Advantages: Exeptionally high volume of fire.
Disadvantages: Feasible only for short periods of time. Requires
frequent barrel changes.
Cyclic Rate of Fire -
correct answer ✅Application: Only used in combat emergencies.
Method: Hold trigger uninterrupted for 1 min.
Advantage: Most possible rounds on target.
Disadvantage: Damaging to Barrel
Barrel: Change after firing 1 minute at cyclic rate.
, Machine Gun Theory Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Area Target -
correct answer ✅Wide and deep target. Require extensive
traversing and include targets whose exact location may not be
known.
Point Target -
correct answer ✅Enemy troops, bunkers, weapons emplacements
and lightly armored vehicles that require the use of a single aiming
point.
Line of Sight -
correct answer ✅An imaginary line from the firers eye, through
the sights, to the point fo aim on the target.
Burst of Fire -
correct answer ✅A number of successive rounds fired with the
same elevation and point of aim when the trigger is held to the
rear.
Trajectory -
correct answer ✅The path of the round in flight. The path is
generally flat at ranges up to 300m, then begins to curve.
Answers (Grade A+)
Sustained Rate of Fire -
correct answer ✅Application: The gunner's normal rate of fire.
Maintenance: Pause for 4-5 seconds between bursts.
Barrel: Change Barrel after 10 min sustained rate.
Rapid Rate of Fire -
correct answer ✅Application: Works best when the gunner is
trying to establish fire superiority.
Maintenance: 2-3 seconds between bursts.
Barrel: Change after 2 minutes.
Advantages: Exeptionally high volume of fire.
Disadvantages: Feasible only for short periods of time. Requires
frequent barrel changes.
Cyclic Rate of Fire -
correct answer ✅Application: Only used in combat emergencies.
Method: Hold trigger uninterrupted for 1 min.
Advantage: Most possible rounds on target.
Disadvantage: Damaging to Barrel
Barrel: Change after firing 1 minute at cyclic rate.
, Machine Gun Theory Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Area Target -
correct answer ✅Wide and deep target. Require extensive
traversing and include targets whose exact location may not be
known.
Point Target -
correct answer ✅Enemy troops, bunkers, weapons emplacements
and lightly armored vehicles that require the use of a single aiming
point.
Line of Sight -
correct answer ✅An imaginary line from the firers eye, through
the sights, to the point fo aim on the target.
Burst of Fire -
correct answer ✅A number of successive rounds fired with the
same elevation and point of aim when the trigger is held to the
rear.
Trajectory -
correct answer ✅The path of the round in flight. The path is
generally flat at ranges up to 300m, then begins to curve.
