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One is a right side feed the other is left side feed.
Everything except for the weapons themselves is hand-made in country and has been slowly improved each rotation. Our Mechanic put a lot of time into custom-welding things for us and the chicken plate his all him.
The current design has the chicken plate you see above. What you don't see is that instead of a normal ammo can (which it can accommodate) it carries 6 (3 on each side) cut-down and re-welded .50 cal cans which each hold about 350 7.62 rounds....So you have in the neighborhood of 2000 rounds up on the gun at all times. The system features individual triggers but a dual charging handle.
Basically this allows the rear-gunner to shoot 2 240's cyclic during initial contact and then he can 'talk' his own weapons by firing one at a time. There is enough ammunition up on the guns to sustain a pretty heavy volume of fire. Of course, we had another couple thousand rounds in the racks on the gun.
The main gunner on this one was rocking a MK-19 (with 750 rounds of ammunition somehow squirreled away) which makes that truck pretty gnarly.
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