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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a heavy machine gun" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a type of firearm that is designed to fire large-caliber ammunition at a high rate of fire, often used in military contexts.
Example: "The soldiers were equipped with a heavy machine gun to provide cover during the operation."
Alternatives: "a large-caliber machine gun" or "a powerful machine gun".
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Abu Omar's section was given a heavy machine gun.
A SOLDIER HUNCHES over the sights of a heavy machine gun.
A heavy machine gun on a crossroads thundered as the jet passed overhead.
The next noise -- the slow, deep staccato of a heavy machine gun -- set off pandemonium.
Doros became the ammunition carrier for a heavy machine gun team but he did occasionally use his Lee-Enfield.
"We're waiting for the airstrikes," said Khaled Soghayer, who idled his truck, with a heavy machine gun in the back, far from the battlefront.
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By 13:00 the brigade was north of Gaza when the Mysore Lancers' leading squadron located the Turkish rearguard, which included a heavy machine-gun position.
Yonekura's force included the 9th and 10th Companies of the 78th Infantry Regiment, the 5th Company of the 80th Infantry Regiment, a heavy machine-gun section, a signals section and an engineer company—a total of about 500 troops.
A subsequent rattle of a heavy machine-gun encourages the younger one, just 19 years old, to close the door and stop the smallest chink of light from betraying their position.
Learn to hide in shadows, and don't carry a heavy machine-gun with you.
We were wedged in amid ammo boxes, ammo belts, and the feet of another policeman, who stood in the turret behind a Dushka, a Russian heavy machine gun.
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