MG36

"The MG36 provides excellent station suppressive fire, dealing high damage at long ranges with a fast firing rate. Mobility is sluggish, and accuracy is merely decent, but manageable recoil keeps your sights on the target for easier acquisition. Let the enemy come to you and mow them down on sight."

- Call of Duty: Elite description

The MG36 is a light machine gun appearing in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Campaign
The MG36 appears in the mission "Persona Non Grata" with a Grip, found on the ground as soon the player takes control of Yuri. It appears somewhat differently from its multiplayer version, as it has a smaller magazine, lower rate of fire, lower recoil and decreased reload add time (meaning the magazine is refilled when the new magazine is about to be inserted to the weapon), making it effective for reload cancelling. However, it runs out of ammo rather quickly, depending on how much the player uses it.

Multiplayer
The MG36 has fairly average statistics such as moderate rate of fire, recoil, and damage values. It does have one exceptional characteristic, however, sporting the fastest reload time of any LMGs, but only slightly faster than the L86 LSW and with a longer empty reload and add time.

The MG36 resets exceptionally fast after firing, so using fast single-shot bursts gives it very potent stopping power over medium to longer ranges. Fully automatic fire is not advised unless at very close range. With the Grip and/or the Kick proficiency, the weapon gains much needed accuracy allowing more rounds to hit the target at a longer range. The weapon's lower rate of fire can be fixed by implementing the Rapid Fire attachment, however some accuracy will be sacrificed with the added recoil. Going prone with the MG36 will (like other LMG's) reduce recoil to very low levels, allowing for fully automatic fire up to very long ranges.

Attachments

 * Red Dot Sight - Unlocked at weapon level 2.
 * Silencer - Unlocked at weapon level 5.
 * Grip - Unlocked at weapon level 8.
 * ACOG Scope - Unlocked at weapon level 11.
 * Rapid Fire - Unlocked at weapon level 14.
 * Heartbeat Sensor - Unlocked at weapon level 20.
 * Holographic Sight - Unlocked at weapon level 22.
 * Extended Mags - Unlocked at weapon level 25.
 * Thermal Scope - Unlocked at weapon level 27.

Proficiency

 * Kick - Unlocked at weapon level 4.
 * Impact - Unlocked at weapon level 9.
 * Attachments - Unlocked at weapon level 12.
 * Focus - Unlocked at weapon level 16.
 * Speed - Unlocked at weapon level 21.
 * Stability - Unlocked at weapon level 28.

Survival Mode
The MG36 is available in Survival Mode at level 48 and costs $7000.

Trivia

 * The Grip attachment used to lower the MG36's rate of fire. However, after a recent patch, it no longer does.
 * It appears that the MG36 model in singleplayer and on Create-a-Class image has two iron sights attached, one pair of sights is flipped down.This can be easily seen in the first mission (Persona non Grata) where MG36 is availible at the beggining.