RPD machine gun - Wikipedia
The RPD (Russian: Ручной Пулемёт Дегтярёва, РПД, romanized: Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova, RPD, lit. 'Degtyaryov hand-held machine gun, RPD') is a 7.62x39mm light machine gun developed in …
RPD Machine Gun: The Soviet-Era Weapon That's Seen Nearly 80 ...
Mar 20, 2023 · The RPD was an automatic machine gun featuring a gas-operated long-stroke piston system paired with the locking system of earlier small arms developed by Vasily Degtyaryov.
Soviet Super SAW? The RPD Light Machine Gun
Jan 31, 2023 · The RPD was a belt-fed 7.62x39mm adaptation of the basic Degtyarev action that drove the WWII-vintage Soviet DP pan-fed machine gun. The RPD fed from a pair of non-disintegrating 50 …
RPD (Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova) Light Machine Gun (LMG)
Feb 9, 2023 · Developed as a portable, squad-level light machine gun, the RPD ("Ruchnoy Pulemot Degtyaryova" - "Hand-Held Machine Gun of Degtyaryov") was a further evolution of the storied DP …
The RPD Light Machine Gun - Firearms News
Feb 15, 2024 · The RPD was developed as a companion light machine gun for the AK-47 to fire the same 7.62x39mm cartridge. An argument can be made that as good as this decision was logistically; …
The 7.62mm RPD: The NVA’s Soviet Light Machine Gun - HistoryNet
Apr 21, 2017 · A popular automatic weapon with North Vietnamese infantry squads, the Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryov, or Degtyaryov light machine gun, was designed in the late 1940s by Vasily …
TBT: The inside story of the Soviet Red Army’s RPD machine gun
Dec 19, 2019 · The RPD’s pedigree goes back to 1921, when Vasily A. Degtyaryov began work on an easily-manufactured gas-operated light machine gun, which was adopted by the Red Army in 1928.