Facebook: http://facebook.com/XboxAhoy Twitter: http://twitter.com/xboxahoy In this episode we're covering the Stoner63. It's a fully automatic weapon, unlocked once you've purchased all of the other LMGs. The Stoner 63 is an American weapon - named for its lead designer, Eugene Stoner: the mind behind the M16 rifle. The Stoner 63 was one of his later designs, with the first models produced in 1963. The concept was for a flexible weapon platform that could be used in a number of configurations - from carbine, through assault rifle to machine gun, and everything in-between. After leaving Armalite and instead working with Cadillac Gage, Stoner produced his first prototype: originally chambered for the 7.62mm NATO round, and known as the Stoner M69W. This name was chosen as it is an ambigram, reflecting Stoner's vision of a fully invertible reciever. The follow-up design to this prototype was called the Stoner 62 - but the smaller 5.56mm intermediate cartridge was eventually chosen for mass production, leading to the Stoner 63 design. In 1963, the rifle was submitted to DARPA - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - for trials. Although praised for its flexibilty, potential ammunition capacity and light weight, the design fell short on the reliability front - leading to the improved Stoner 63A design. This design saw use with the US Navy Seals, and with a company of US Marines, designated as the XM22E1. In 1970, the US Army issued the Stoner as the XM207 to Army Special Forces units for evaluation - however by this point the Stoner was losing ground to Colt's improved M16 rifle designs, and in 1971 the design was dropped entirely. Ultimately, the role Stoner hoped to fill was satisfied by the M249 in 1984 - the Squad Automatic Weapon, or SAW. The Stoner fires the NATO standard intermediate cartridge, the 5.56-by-45 millimetre. Some variants were designed to fire a disintegrating belt of ammunition, but the assault rif