Kvm 89 Squad Automatic Weapon

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*"The Kvm 89 is a squad automatic weapon adopted by the Swedish Army during the 1980s."*

The **Kvm 89 Squad Automatic Weapon**, is a Light Machine Gun (LMG) that appears in the game *Generation Zero*.
It is an LMG capable of firing only in Automatic.
The Kvm 89 takes 5.56mm rounds and can hold a magazine of 40 rounds.

### Pros

* High magazine capacity
* Ammo is somewhat plentiful.

### Weapon Attachments

 **Barrel** | * Machine Gun Silencer
 **Magazine** | * Kvm 89 Extended Mag

### Locations

**Dilapidated**

* Possible drop from killing Apocalypse Runners
* Can be found at a Russian landing craft

**Worn**

* Inside FOA 4 (First room on the right upon entering)

**Good**

* Potential drop from:
	+ Apocalypse Hunters.
	+ Scout Firebirds.
	+ Soldier Firebirds.

**Exceptional**

* Potential drop from:
	+ Apocalypse Hunters.
	+ Soldier Firebirds.
	+ Spetsnaz Firebirds.

**Special**

* Potential drop from:
	+ Apocalypse Tanks
	+ Apocalypse Harvesters.
	+ Spetsnaz Firebirds.

**Experimental**

* Potential drop from:
	+ Home Base missions if player level is at least 25.
	+ Base Assault if player level is at least 25.
	+ Rivals if player level is at least 25.
	+ Reaper at any player level.

## strategy

* The Experimental KVM-89 can be devastating to enemies when shooting in bursts. Just make sure not to overheat it.

## Trivia

* While the Swedish military do use the FN Minimi, the game's KVM-89 Squad Automatic Weapon is based off the Minimi's American variant, the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, specifically the paratrooper version, the M249 Para. The true FN Minimi as used by the Swedes would be period-accurate, but the M249 Para is anachronistic.
* The kvm 89 is the only light machine gun to use 5.56mm rounds. ￼ With the other LMGs using 7.62mm.
* The weapon's ammunition chain doesn't feed into the slot where the chain should enter.
* The weapon ammo belt still remains when the ammo count is apparently empty.
* The base magazine of the KVM-89 is unnecessary 40, while the real-life magazine can hold around 100-200 rounds.
* A single C2 KVM-89 in the FOA-4 facility has a fore-grip attachment underneath the barrel, but the grip doesn't come when picked up due toit not being an available attachment.

## Real-life counterpart // history

In 1965, the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps' primary machine guns were the M2 Browning and M60. The M2 was a large-caliber heavy machine gun, usually mounted on vehicles or in fixed emplacements. The M60 was a more mobile general-purpose machine gun, intended to be carried by troops to provide heavy automatic fire.

Both firearms were very heavy and usually required a crew of at least two in order to operate efficiently. The Browning automatic rifle (BAR), the army's main individual machine gun since its introduction in World War I, was phased out in 1957 with the introduction of the M14 rifle (which had a fully automatic mode)."Designated riflemen" in every squad were ordered to use their weapons on the fully automatic setting, while other troops were required to use their rifle's semi-automatic mode on most occasions to increase accuracy and conserve ammunition. Because the M14 and M16 rifles had not been designed with sustained automatic fire in mind, they often overheated or jammed. The 20-round and 30-round magazines of these weapons limited their sustained automatic effectiveness when compared to belt-fed weapons.

The Army decided that an individual machine gun, lighter than the M60, but with more firepower than the M16, would be advantageous; troops would no longer have to rely on rifles for automatic fire. Through the 1960s, the introduction of a machine gun into the infantry squad was examined in various studies. While there was a brief flirtation with the concept of a flechette- or dart-firing Universal Machine Gun during one study, most light machine gun experiments concentrated on the Stoner 63 light machine gun, a modular weapon that could be easily modified for different purposes. The Stoner 63 LMG saw combat for a brief period in Vietnam with the Marine Corps, and later on a wider scale with the U.S. Navy SEALs.