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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.
RPKM (machine gun) Soviet Union Russia AN-94 / Nikonov Assault Rifle 5.45×39mm: 1997–present used in limited numbers too ... RPD / Light Machine Gun 7.62×39mm:
Russian (at the time Soviet) military forces have not fielded a squad-level, intermediate caliber, belt-fed machine gun since the retirement of the RPD in the early 1960s. [4] Official Soviet doctrine from the 1960s onward dictated that squad-level suppressive fire would be provided by the RPK , while PK machine guns would be issued at the ...
The below table gives a list of firearms that can fire the 7.62×39mm cartridge, first developed and used by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. [1] The cartridge is widely used due to the worldwide proliferation of Russian SKS and AK-47 pattern rifles, as well as RPD and RPK light machine guns.
The RPK (Russian: Ручной пулемёт Калашникова/РПК, romanized: Ruchnoy Pulemyot Kalashnikova, English: "Kalashnikov's hand-held machine gun"), sometimes inaccurately termed the RPK-47, is a Soviet 7.62×39mm light machine gun that was developed by Mikhail Kalashnikov in the early 1960s, in parallel with the AKM assault ...
RPD machine gun; RPK; S. Savin–Norov machine gun; SG-43 Goryunov; ShKAS machine gun; SIBEMAS; Y. YakB-12.7 machine gun This page was last edited on 24 May 2019, at ...
The 7.62×39mm (also called 7.62 Soviet, formerly .30 Russian Short) [5] round is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge of Soviet origin. The cartridge is widely used due to the global proliferation of the AK-47 rifle and related Kalashnikov-pattern rifles, the SKS semi-automatic rifle, and the RPD/RPK light machine guns.
The PK (Russian: Пулемёт Калашникова, transliterated as Pulemyot Kalashnikova, or "Kalashnikov's machine gun") [4], is a belt-fed general-purpose machine gun, chambered for the 7.62×54mmR rimmed cartridge.