Light machine gun (Fallout: New Vegas)

The light machine gun is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The LMG is one of the best weapons when it comes to pure damage per second. The combination of good refire rate, magazine capacity, base damage, and reload speed results in excellent crowd control properties. Especially when used properly, aiming down its iron sights, rather than fired from the hip, when its spread is fairly high.

Note that it is a top tier Guns weapon, requiring a maxed-out weapons skill (100) and 8 Strength to wield without penalties. The high strength is also needed due to another reason - a fully loaded drum magazine contains 200 rounds and weighs 5.2 pounds. Twenty of those can be fired (a total of 3996) before the weapon breaks.

Modification

 * Expanded drums: +110 rounds per magazine (200 total).

Variants

 * Bozar: An accurized, unique light machine gun with a scope.

Locations

 * Loot
 * Quarry Junction: In the deathclaw mother's nest.
 * Vendors
 * Gun Runners: Vendortron (player level 16 required)
 * Hidden Valley: Torres (required McNamara's permission to access stock).
 * Non-player characters
 * Divide: Marked Men
 * Jack Rabbit Springs: Super mutant master at occasionally carries one.
 * NCR heavy troopers
 * Super mutant masters and nightkin masters.

Behind the scenes

 * The light machine gun was designed as a mishmash of M60 and M249 SAW parts.