M249

Quality:

M249 SAW - 5.56 mm light machine gun. Article “M249” in Vietnamese Wikipedia has 15.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Vietnamese) language version.

In June 2026 the article “M249” was edited by 1 authors in Vietnamese Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “M249”, its content was written by 39 registered users of Vietnamese Wikipedia and edited by 1116 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 30 times in Vietnamese Wikipedia and cited 1977 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Vietnamese): #76 in December 2008
• Global: #1651 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Vietnamese): #4314 in May 2008
• Global: #3272 in January 2010

There are 30 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) M249 Squad Automatic Weapon		92.9998
2	Chinese (zh) M249班用自動武器		78.3067
3	Japanese (ja) M249軽機関銃		49.8907
4	Russian (ru) M249 SAW		42.0776
5	Turkish (tr) M249		31.4111
6	Arabic (ar) إم 249		29.0466
7	Tamil (ta) எம்249 இலகு இயந்திரத் துப்பாக்கி		28.0011
8	Polish (pl) Karabin maszynowy M249 SAW		27.442
9	Portuguese (pt) M249		27.2738
10	Italian (it) M249 LMG		26.815

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) M249 Squad Automatic Weapon		11 358 856
2	Spanish (es) Ametralladora ligera M249		927 923
3	German (de) M249		906 420
4	Japanese (ja) M249軽機関銃		860 819
5	Russian (ru) M249 SAW		837 977
6	Chinese (zh) M249班用自動武器		625 081
7	Polish (pl) Karabin maszynowy M249 SAW		256 446
8	French (fr) M249 light machine gun		193 303
9	Turkish (tr) M249		176 991
10	Portuguese (pt) M249		132 206

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) M249 Squad Automatic Weapon		28 241
2	Japanese (ja) M249軽機関銃		3 233
3	Russian (ru) M249 SAW		3 070
4	Chinese (zh) M249班用自動武器		1 891
5	Spanish (es) Ametralladora ligera M249		1 414
6	German (de) M249		1 328
7	Ukrainian (uk) M249 (кулемет)		964
8	French (fr) M249 light machine gun		747
9	Polish (pl) Karabin maszynowy M249 SAW		520
10	Persian (fa) ام۲۴۹		481

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) M249 Squad Automatic Weapon		492
2	German (de) M249		80
3	Chinese (zh) M249班用自動武器		75
4	Spanish (es) Ametralladora ligera M249		46
5	Vietnamese (vi) M249		39
6	Russian (ru) M249 SAW		33
7	Turkish (tr) M249		31
8	Korean (ko) M249 경기관총		28
9	Japanese (ja) M249軽機関銃		27
10	Danish (da) M249 SAW		23

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) M249 Squad Automatic Weapon		4
2	Arabic (ar) إم 249		1
3	Persian (fa) ام۲۴۹		1
4	Tamil (ta) எம்249 இலகு இயந்திரத் துப்பாக்கி		1
5	Vietnamese (vi) M249		1
6	Belarusian (be) M249 SAW		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) M249 SAW		0
8	Czech (cs) M249		0
9	Danish (da) M249 SAW		0
10	German (de) M249		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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