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The Degtyaryov machine gun (Russian: Пулемёт Дегтярёвa Пехотный, romanized: Pulemyot Degtyaryova Pekhotny literally: "Degtyaryov's infantry machine gun") or DP-27/DP-28 is a light machine gun firing the 7.62×54mmR cartridge that was primarily used by the Soviet Union, with service trials starting in 1927, followed by general deployment in 1928.
Requiring a heavy machine gun similar to the M2 Browning, development of the DShK began in the Soviet Union in 1929 and the first design was finalised by Vasily Degtyaryov in 1931. [17] [19] The initial design used the same gas operation from the Degtyaryov machine gun, and used a 30 round drum magazine, but had a poor rate of fire.
The RPD (Russian: ручной пулемёт Дегтярёва, romanized: Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova, English: Degtyaryov hand-held machine gun) is a 7.62x39mm light machine gun developed in the Soviet Union by Vasily Degtyaryov for the 7.62×39mm M43 intermediate cartridge.
"Typical of light machine guns of the era, the 47-round magazines made sustained fire impossible. In contrast, the German MG-34/MG-42 were continuous belt-fed general-purpose machine guns and provided a sustained fire capability the DP series could not match." The drum magazine had nothing to do with that.
Feed Strip/Detachable box magazine France: 1920s Huot Automatic Rifle (Did not enter production) 7.70×56mmR (known as .303 British) Drum magazine Canada: 1916 IWI Negev: Israel Weapon Industries: 5.56×45mm NATO: Ammunition belt/Detachable box magazine Israel: 1985 Negev NG7: Israel Weapon Industries: 7.62×51mm NATO: Ammunition belt ...
Degtyaryov developed a total 82 types of machine guns, submachine guns and anti-tank rifles, 19 of them were officially adopted. [2]Degtyaryov designed several models of submachine guns, the best of which would be adopted by the Soviet Army in 1934 (modernized in 1940) as the ППД PPD-40 (from Пистолет-пулемёт Дегтярёва, "Degtyaryov's submachine gun").
It primarily uses a 95-round drum magazine and is backwards compatible with box magazines from the AK-74, AK-12 and RPK-74. [ 15 ] After receiving feedback on the performance of the weapon, the Kalashnikov Concern has begun development on the RPL-20 (20 indicating 2020) belt-fed light machine gun also chambered in 5.45×39mm and with a very ...
АК-47 / AK 7.62×39mm: 1949–present replaced by AKM can still be found in armories. AKS folding stock; AK(S)N night scope rail; Issue 1949 stamped receiver; Issue 1951 milled receiver; Issue 1954 lightened milled receiver variant Soviet Union: AKM. modernized AK-47 7.62×39mm: 1959–present replaced by AK-74 still in use by police and ...