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Sailor Firing GPMG Onboard HMS Dragon<\/strong>
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\nA Royal Navy gunner onboard HMS Dragon fires a General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) at a parachute flare during a live firing exercise at night. The ship is currently on a seven month deployment. <\/p>\n

Type 45 destroyer HS Dragon flexed her muscles firing every gun onboard. The serial started with the ship deploying the killer tomato, a big red inflatable target and engaging it with the ships 4.5 inch gun, quickly followed by the 30mm canons, phalanx, Miniguns and General Purpose Machine Guns.<\/p>\n

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