After 1945, many countries were trying to produce their own machine guns based on the
MG 42 design. In the early 1950s,
Belgian arms manufacturer
FN Herstal succeeded in developing a general-purpose machine gun called the
MAG. The initial Ksp 58A version used by Sweden was chambered for
6.5×55mm, while the B and later models were chambered for
7.62×51mm NATO. ==Users==