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 deliver more intensive fire. Its gas-regulator operates on the principle of changing the cross-section of the gas-bleeder and not on the principle of gases exhaust as was the case with the PK and PKM machine guns in an effort to prevent extra gas pollution in the combat compartment of the tank. The
PKMT does not have the sighting aids of its own, the operating handle and the stock, the appearance of the receiver is changed. The spring of the guiding tube of a piston rod removes the gap or the clearance between the tube and the receiver. The PKMT is equipped with an electric trigger mechanism. The tank machine gun is employed as the coaxial and the course weapon on the remotely controlled mounts.
The PKMT was manufactured at the Kovrov Mechanical Plant and the Zlataust Machine-Building Plant.
The PKMT weighs without ammunition load 11.705 kg.
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PKMT
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
ASVK
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OSV-96
In 1994 the KB Instrument Design Bureau had offered the 12.7 mm V-94 experimental gas-operated unit ritle with its barrel bore locked by a rotating bolt. This rifle is intended to annihilate a hostile manpower rigged with individual protection armored means, light armored hardware, counter-sniper warfare, and knocking out hostile hardware. A comparatively high recoil … Continue reading
OTs-48
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MTs-116M
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SV-98
Designer from the «lzmash» V. Slronsky has developed the SV-98 sniper rifle derived Irom the «Rekord» sport rifle chambered for the 7.62x54R-sniper 7N1 or sport «Exfra» cartridges. The free sliding barrel was produced via cold forging and underwent honing and to enhance consistency of fire its tube was not chromed. The longitudinally sliding rotating bolt … Continue reading