Gas operated long stroke piston, flapper locking and fires from the open bolt
Rate of fire
650 rounds/min
Muzzle velocity
735 m/s (2,411 ft/s)
Effective firing range
100–1,000 m sight adjustments
Feed system
Non-disintegrating 100-round segmented belt stored in a drum container. Custom 125 round belt (MACVSOG version)
Sights
Open-type sights with rear sliding notch and semi-hooded front post, 596.6 mm (23.5 in) sight radius
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. It was created as a replacement for the DP machine gun chambered for the 7.62×54mmR round. It is a precursor of most squad automatic weapons.[1] It was succeeded in Soviet service by the RPK.
converting it to use belt feed. The DP machinegun was supplemented in the 1950s by the more modern RPDmachinegun and entirely replaced in Soviet service...
transliterated as Pulemyot Kalashnikova, or "Kalashnikov's machinegun") is a belt-fed general-purpose machinegun, chambered for the 7.62×54mmR rimmed cartridge...
arms inventory of the Soviet Army, where it replaced the 7.62×39mm RPDmachinegun. The RPK continues to be used by the military of the post-Soviet states...
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in the War. RPDmachinegun Type 56 light machinegun (Chinese copy of the RPD) RPK MG 34: used early in the War. UK vz. 59 PK machinegun: used late in...
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Artillery Service of the Soviet Union. He designed a belt-fed light machinegun, the RPD, chambered for the 7.62×39mm intermediate cartridge. Vasily Degtyaryov...
on the basis of the SKS and the RPD light machinegun, which was chambered for the same 7.62x39mm ammunition. The RPD's role was the designated squad automatic...
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