I woke up this morning to the alerts that a coup was in progress in Venezuela and the taking of Caracas’s military airport, La Carlota. When I log in to Twitter, it was being downgraded to a call to arms by Interim President Guaido outside the airport but with a “sizeable military contingent” backing him up.
Then images started to pour and when I saw this video, I figured it was a nice show of nothing.
One crate of bananas and one belt fed machine gun does not a revolution make.
PS: Not sure but I think that is a FN MAG.
PS: A pic of the set up.
Insert “banana mag” pun here.
Since you beat me to it, I’ll take the “green tip” jokes…
Yes, that’s a FN-MAG, aka the U.S. military’s M240
Someone is serious, they brought the spare barrel.
You assume it is in good shape. It has been almost 9 years since FN stopped servicing Venezuela.
That MAG will work. They’re near impossible to kill, and the death is visible from that distance.
Nine years is NADA for that gun, and since the crew brought the spare barrel, they most likely know how to care for it properly.
Would a comment about “gorilla warfare” be out of line?