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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.
RPD / Light Machine Gun 7.62×39mm: 1945–present still used by special forces and militia forces Soviet Union: RPK / Kalashnikov Light Machine Gun 7.62×39mm: 1959–present still used by police and militia forces AKM (assault rifle) S-108(-M), P-55 prototypes RPKS (folding stock) RPK(S)N night scope rail RPK(S)L flash suppressor & night ...
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 7.62×39mm (aka 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 rifles, the SKS semi automatic rifle, as well as the RPD and RPK light machine guns.
RPD Soviet Union North Korea: Produced locally as the Type 62. [3] Type 64 [21] Soviet Union North Korea: North Korean copy of the RPK machine gun, produced under license. [5] RPK-74 Soviet Union [2]: A-82 Type 73 North Korea: Indigenous design based on the ZB vz. 26 and the Kalashnikov PK machine gun design. Replaced by the Type 82 in service. [3]
Brendon Burns killed by RPD, MCSO on Barrington Street. According to the report, police had linked Burns to a drive-by shooting into a smoke shop on Monroe Avenue on March 17.
MAZ – Sudanese licensed copy of the Type 56 made by Military Industry Corporation. ASh78 (Automatiku Shqiptar 78) – Albanian licensed copy of the Type 56. [28] TUL-1 - North Vietnamese-made variant, but with stock of an RPK, barrel sights from an RPD. [29] The TUL-1's body was thin, only 1 mm compared to the 1.5 mm of an RPK.
May 28—A Richmond man was arrested on charges of burglary and menacing. According to police citations, two officers with the Richmond Police Department (RPD) responded to a fight on Porter Drive ...