spade grip technical
spade handle technical

Control was from a spade grip on the gun.

His fingers reached for but did not quite touch the spade grips of the tribarrel.

Tripod and pintle mounts are usually used with spade grips.

The gun is fitted with a single spade grip at the rear of receiver, with trigger to control fire.

Daniel grabbed its twin spade grips.

It was equipped with a metallic Y-shaped stock and two spade grips, the barrels had no cooling fins.

The M60D differed from the base model by employing spade grips, a different sighting system, and lacking a forearm.

The other guerilla was fast and cool; he grabbed for the spade grips and swung the long heat-glowing barrel towards her.

The aircraft configured M240D has a front and rear sight and a trigger group which accommodates the spade grip device.

Panchin held firmly onto the twin spade grips of his tribarrel as the deck slanted beneath his boots.

The stocky, spike-haired crewman turned from the spade grips of his gun and took the weight of Ranson's ceramic armor.

The spade grips were replaced with a rifle-type stock and the thumb-trigger was replaced by a rifle-type trigger.

Unlike other models, however, the M60D normally has spade grips and an aircraft ring-type sight or similar, as well as an improved ammunition feed system.

Light machine guns often have a butt stock attached, while vehicle and tripod mounted machine guns usually have spade grips.

The Taden was belt-fed with spade grips and would have replaced both the Bren and the Vickers machine gun.

Grip Assembly - The M134G spade grip assembly is integral with the receiver through a new proprietary mounting lug.

The Land variant has the spade grip replaced with a "semi bullpup" short stock at the rear and a pistol grip with trigger below the receiver.

The turret was rectangular in form and the machine gun was modified for vehicle use with a pistol grip instead of the spade grips of the infantry version.

Which meant . . . An instant later he collided with the other occupant of the hole as they both leapt for the spade grips of the machine gun.

Harlow, at the spade grips of the tribarrel mounted on the upper plating, grinned through his sights as he traversed the weapon slowly across that invisible line on the ground.

Grabbing the spade grips of the Chinooks door-mounted M60D7.62mm air-cooled machine gun, he made sure the belt-fed ammo was ready to roll, flicked off the safety, and began firing.

A soldier pitched backward from the spade grips of his machine gun with a round blue hole between his eyes and the back blown out of his head by the wadcutter bullet.

The changes included rising theoretical rate of fire to 1100 rds/min, eliminating buttstock, adding spade grip in the rear of receiver, moving the main spring under barrel and most importantly changing the feed system.

Actually of course the "ground" Lewis gun came already fitted with such a stock as standard, this being replaced in the standard "air" form of the gun with a spade grip, for "handiness" and to save weight.

An attempt was also made to make a version of the M85 that would replace the M2 in the infantry role was designated the M85C, and features standard spade grips and can be fitted to the M3 heavy tripod.