Reply To: A question probably only John can answer (pintle mounted MGs).

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Most pintle mounts act and work similarly (German pintle mounts are weird because German)

I heard that! @johnlyons

For what it’s worth: in my time in the Bundeswehr if a vehicle had a hatch for a gunner there was a mounting point for the MG3 where the bi-pod legs would go in normal operations. Most of the time, when the hatch was closed the MG3 was stored inside. Only when we did things like a TacEval it would remain outside and there is a bracket to fix the back end of the MG3. And a cover that goes over everything for keeping it nice and clean. That’s how we had it on the Mercedes Benz 2t MilGl, MB 1017 TmilGL and the bigger 5t, 7t, and 15t MilGl by MAN.