Machine guns
Kord
Inasmuchas since from the early 1990s the main manufacturer of the NSV-12.7 machine guns was left in the «sovereign» Kazakhstan, a team of designers, including A.A. Namitulin, N.M. Obidin, Yu.M. Bogdanov and V.I. Zhirochin had performed work at Central Design Bureau (SKB) of the Kovrov Plant named after V.A. Degtayrev under the code name «KORD- [...]
NSV-12
In 1972 a machine gun developed by G.I. Nikilin, Yu.M. Sokolovand V.I. Volkovwas adopted for service to replace the 12.7mm DShKM machine gun and it was designated NSV-12.7 (Nikitin-Sokolov-Volkov, 12.7 mm, code name -Utes>, Index 6P11).
The machine gun Is a gas-operated weapon with a long travel of its piston and a gas-regula¬tor. In an effort [...]
Pecheneg
The team of developers at the TsNIITOCHMASH, including A.A. Deriagin, N.N. Denisov, V.I. Suslov, M.V. Chugunov, A.S. Neugodov and others had undertook a num¬ber of measures directed to enhance the accuracy of the PKM machine gun as well as the service life of its barrel and to reduce the errors in its aiming at the [...]
PKMT
As the PK was adopted with the PKT (Index 6P7) tank machine gun and the PKB (6B10) armored personnel carrier machine gun, so together with the PKM appeared the PKMT (6P7M) tank machine gun and the PKMB (6P10M) armored personnel carrier machine gun. The tank machine gun features a more heavy barrel that permits to [...]
PKM-PKMS
which were developed later on the PKB machine gun intended for armored personnel carriers and the PKT machine gun intended for tanks. In 1969 the PKM (6P6) modernized machine gun with reduced weight by 1.5 kg and a number of changes: the ribs of the barrel were removed, flash suppressor, operating handle, buttplate and trigger [...]
RPK-74M
After creation of the AK-74M assault rifle at the «Izhmash», the Vyatsko-Polyansky Machine-Building Plant «Molot» had con¬ducted the proper updating of the RPK-74 light machine gun up to the level of the P.PK-74M light machine gun (Index 6P39).
RPK-74 Kalashnikov
In 1974 the 5.45 mm assault Titles together with the RPK-74 (Index 6P18) light machine guns with unremoved stock and RPKS-74 with the folded stock were adopted for service.
The design differences from the AK-74 are similar to the differences of the RPK from the AKM. The new elements hap¬pened to be a muzzle device and [...]
RPK Kalashnikov
The very idea of unification of the small arms based on a singular was probed in the USSR earlier than it was done in other coun¬tries and implemented at a more full extent. In 1961 the RPK (Kalashnikov light machine gun, Index 6P2) developed on the bases of the AKM assault rifle was adopted for [...]