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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.
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").
Machine guns DP-28 Soviet Union China: DPM, Chinese Type 53, and RP-46 variants used by the KPA. [2]: A-85 [3] 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
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.
Nikonov machine gun: Izhmash: 5.45×39mm Soviet Union: 1977 Nordenfelt gun United Kingdom: 1873 Rheinmetall MG14Z: Tactics Group GmbH: 7.62×51mm NATO Germany: 2014 Rheinmetall RMG 7.62: Rheinmetall Defence: 7.62×51mm NATO Germany: 2013 Twin Bren: 7.62×39mm China: 1935 Type 89 machine gun: 7.7×58mm Arisaka Japan: 1929 Type 100 machine gun: 7 ...
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The page lists the gun as a light machine gun, but this is in contradiction to the definition of a light machine as stated on the light machine gun wikipedia page. The gun should be listed as a General-purpose machine gun. The definition used on that page does match the DP-28 77.165.248.153 15:22, 23 November 2017 (UTC)