An infantry machine gun which has been in service since the early 1960s, the GPMG can be used in the light role fired from a bipod or can be fitted to a tripod for use in the sustained fire role.

The gun is also found pintle-mounted on many armoured vehicles. Used on a tripod the gun is effective out to 1,800 m although it is difficult to spot strike at this range because the tracer rounds in the ammunition belt burns out at 1,100 m.

Machine Gun platoons in air assault battalions remain equipped with the GPMG in the sustained fire role.

GPMG performance has been enhanced by the issue of a Maxi Kite night image intensification sight giving excellent visibility out to 600 m. The GPMG is due to be withdrawn from service in 2015.