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U.S. Ordnance Weapon Systems

U.S. Ordnance is a Nevada-based small-arms manufacturer that builds and tests military machine guns, replacement parts, and conversion kits, with the M60 family as its clearest catalog link.

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U.S. Ordnance is a Nevada-based small-arms manufacturer founded in 1997. The company’s official materials place it in McCarran, just outside Reno, and describe a business built around military small arms, machine guns, replacement parts, and related support work.

For this catalog, the builder page primarily anchors the M60 family and related crew-served weapons. U.S. Ordnance’s own site highlights the M60E6, Mk43/M60E4 conversion kit, M60D Enhanced, M240/GPMG line, M2HB, and MK19 MOD 3, along with government-monitored testing and in-house production capability.

small armsmachine gunscrew-served weaponsreplacement partstesting and support

Notable Systems

M60E6

U.S. Ordnance describes the M60E6 as the latest improvement to the M60 series and publishes its technical specifications on the product page.

Sources: M60E6 product page, About U.S. Ordnance

Mk43 / M60E4 conversion kit

The company’s about page says U.S. Ordnance is the sole manufacturer and distributor of the M60E6 and Mk43/M60E4 line.

Sources: About U.S. Ordnance

M60D Enhanced

U.S. Ordnance lists the M60D Enhanced among its light machine-gun products and related support offerings.

Sources: About U.S. Ordnance, U.S. Ordnance home page

M240/GPMG line

The company pages identify the M240/GPMG family as one of its medium-machine-gun product lines.

Sources: U.S. Ordnance home page, About U.S. Ordnance

Builder History

  1. U.S. Ordnance begins operating in Nevada

    Official company materials say the Nevada-based corporation has been building military small arms, machine guns, and replacement parts since 1997.

    Sources: About U.S. Ordnance, U.S. Ordnance home page

  2. Company profile lists McCarran production site

    U.S. Ordnance’s company profile PDF lists the McCarran address and describes the facility, testing flow, and product families in one sourced snapshot of the business.

    Sources: Company profile PDF

Website links
About U.S. OrdnanceU.S. Ordnance home pageM60E6 product pageCompany profile PDF

Official company materials are enough to source the profile, but no rights-clear reusable builder image was located, so the images array is left empty.

Builder Sources

  • About U.S. OrdnancePublisher: U.S. Ordnance | Note: Supports the company's 1997 founding, Nevada-based manufacturing identity, M60-family focus, and the list of current product lines shown on the about page. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • U.S. Ordnance home pagePublisher: U.S. Ordnance | Note: Supports the current McCarran/Reno-area location statement and the active crew-served weapon portfolio shown on the home page. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • M60E6 product pagePublisher: U.S. Ordnance | Note: Supports M60E6 product background and the published technical specifications for the modern M60-family line. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Company profile PDFPublisher: U.S. Ordnance | Note: Supports the McCarran street address, facility description, testing process, and product-line overview used in the builder archive context. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Category

Infantry Weapons

Portable weapons used by soldiers and small units.

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M60 general-purpose machine gun, 7.62 mm general-purpose machine gun, Infantry WeaponsBoko Haram Insurgency, Colombian FARC Dissident Conflict +1 moreM60 general-purpose machine gun7.62 mm general-purpose machine gunBuilt in: United StatesThe M60 is a U.S.-origin 7.62x51 mm NATO belt-fed general-purpose machine gun built for ground, tripod, vehicle, and aircraft-mounted fire support. In the Boko Haram Insurgency, analysts have identified rare M60 machine guns in Boko Haram/JAS and ISWAP media, likely reflecting captured or diverted state weapons rather than formal insurgent procurement.