Aka Section Automatic Weapon or Squad
Assault Weapon. A usually light or general purpose
machine guns designed to give army personnel cover while advancing and also to help keep enemy forces from returning fire. Originally designed for increased mobility from the Heavy tripod mounted machine guns of the WWI era. They were designed as an individually portable, gas operated, magazine or disintegrating metallic link-belt fed
light support weapon capable of delivering sustained automatic fire for periods of time which assault rifles could not support due to overheating and lack of accuracy.
The Canadian Soldiers were using their C9A2 Squad Automatic Weapon to
suppress the Taliban insurgents.
