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Both Madis vehicles are equipped with a cannon and a smaller machine gun that, along with new types of ammunition, are becoming a growing part of antidrone operations.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

The Vahid Online Telegram channel shared two photographs of a black pickup truck with a machine gun mounted in the back in Tehran's Sadeghiyeh Square on the night of 8 January.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Adds Taylor: “I was running across a field with a machine gun in my hand, running and jumping. I really thought I was Tom Cruise.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

The Taiwanese boats also have water cannon and a 20-millimetre static machine gun, but are careful to avoid a confrontation that "could lead to unimaginable consequences", Huang said.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

At the front window stood something that looked like a machine gun with a cluster of barrels.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan




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