The M60 is an American Medium Machine Gun designed between the late 1940s to 1957, where it was first put into service with the United States military to replace the M1918 BAR and M1919 Browning. Its design is largely based upon several Axis-used weapons, specifically the FG42—to whom the M60's early prototypes bore a significant resemblance to, and with which the modern weapon still shares the stock design—and to a lesser extent, the MG42. The M60 is currently used by both the Alliance of Nations, the Axis of Empires, and the Coalition of Independent States, along with independent factions such as the Eldar and the Black Sun.