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M2 AN aircraft machine gun in 1932, increasing its rate of fire to 1,200 rpm. In 1938, he made additional improvements to the M2 further increasing its rate of fire to 1,500 rpm. During the same period, Saive continued to improve the
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belt-feeding mechanism. The work was started in the late 1940s by
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