@@INSANESUICIDE soviets cant help themself but make everything universal "comrade! we need to make more AK, for every situation! like RPK, and PSL comrade!" "comrade! you need to make tool to fix all!"
@@therarenormal Too true, but I must admit the Warsaw pact gear does have its own rugged charm, I for one am quite weak for the wooden furniture on the SVD.
DP stands for "Дегтярев пехотный"(Degtyarev Pekhotnyi) which means Degtyarev for infantry use. Not Degtyarev Pulemyot. You can see this pattern on other Degtyarev guns like DT - "Дегтярев танковый"(Degtyarev Tankoviy) for tanks or DA - "Дегтярев Авиационный"(Degtyarev aviatsioniy) for airplanes. Not a big mistake but I think it was worth mentioning.
@@nicholasstilley2370 It starts earlier. Basically DP is unique in its name due to the fact that it is a series of machine guns for different types of troops and it had to be emphasized by the name
Russian guns stronk. Cannot be hurt by Russian soldiers, best in world. Guns made from stronk Russian steel. That reminds me of a joke i heard in Germany a few years ago, by a German soldier. "US Marines eat crayons, as we all know. Russian soldiers and army cannot afford crayons, they eat pencils."
Ian dismantling the gun with a hammer is like that scene from Armageddon “This! WHACK Is! WHACK How! WHACK We! WHACK Fix! WHACK Things! WHACK In! WHACK Russian! WHACK Space! WHACK Engineering! WHACK corps!
As for what happened to the RP-46, one thing I could hypothesize happening was that while they most certainly got around, they could've also been kept as DP-27s feeding from the pan mags if they ever got out to other Soviet states and allies. Since the DPs and their magazines were kind of everywhere as is, all the major components are interchangeable, and the belt fed mechanism isn't permanently affixed to the gun, I can see smaller countries who already have pan mag stockpiles on hand to stick with them for a while. So there could be more RP-46s out there than we think, they're just missing the feed trays and the smaller telltale details aren't documented or specified.
Hell, I half expect there's crates full of just the feed trays in some warehouse in Russia, unless someone found them post-collapse and scrapped them for a quick buck.
@@corrinestenman5683there’s crates full of P38’s, Lugers, PP’s, Thompson’s, K98’s, STG’s, and god knows what else mothballed away in that country. There’s ABSOLUTELY crates full of these feed mechanisms lol.
@GetTheFO true, and it's probably a whole bunch of warehouses all across the former Soviet Union that have a crate or two of feed trays, though I suspect that there might be a number of complete weapons systems buried in random hidden caches established under Stalin's orders and have been forgotten since his death.
Yeah, this is pretty much the exact idea that I had. Either they took advantage of the stock of extra DPM barrels that were produced (you always need extras) or they just produced some more. (Same thing with the gas piston rods.) Weight would be the main reason for retrofitting them, especially if they were going out to Third World revolutions instead of to motorized infantry.
It's a pretty cool idea really, although I really like the look of a DP with the original stock, it's a really cool relatively early light machine gun, with a very distinctive look, especially with the dinner plate magazine. The Soviet Record Player will always have a place in my heart, although I do understand the advantages of these modernizations to the design.
@ForgottenWeapons Ian, in case you have forgotten about your MG34 maintenance kit video (The one that fit into an ammo can). That thing also included a hammer. Which somehow is very fitting. The German MG34 maintenance includes "the soviet technique" and the RP-46 uses an unnecessarily complicated, almost German-ish, system to store is maintenance kit in the buttstock
Ok, not sure how the whole gun is as far as shooting or maintenance, but it seems absolutely nice to have the oiler, toolkit, and cleaning rod all integrated the way they did. Don't have to worry about whether you have what you need to maintain them in the field. Seems like they need a hammer as well, but I suppose you could somewhat rely on being able to find a rock or piece of wood, or maybe a buddy's rifle.
oh, UA-cam gets mad about automatic fire, but now it is prohibited even to show the use of the Soviet Machine Gun Adjustment Tool))) that's why the screen goes dark on 16:40)) Thank you for another great video!
How to adjust Soviet machine gun: use hammer How to disassemble Soviet machine gun: use hammer How to assemble Soviet machine gun: use hammer What to do one you run out of ammo: USE HAMMER
When you hear that a Russian rocket crashed on launch because a sensor was installed upside down, despite it being made not to fit that way, meaning someone must have had to hammer it in, yeah.
I gotta say your shorts are working. Ill be doomscrolling and ill see a short about a gun and go "oh fuck i wanna watch that" and come watch the full video.
We went from dinner plate magazine to a belt feed magazine. NGL, the RP-46 looks really good. I understand why the PK replaced it, but I wish we have reproduction models of it, even semi-auto ones.
@@abc-bm8pl Most of these guns he probably only disassembles once or twice ever. That's not really enough familiarity to have any sort of realistic speed test. The better test for Ian would be hand him a gun he's never seen before with no instructions and a wildly out of the norm disassembly and see if he can take it apart. At this point he's seen so many different styles from so many different cultures he's probably quite good at disassembly without a manual.
@@dscrappylocogolani9555 Best way is the way I was taught to shoot *most* bipod mounted MGs - wrap left hand over stock, press cheek on hand. Either way, it's a *machinegun* , not a sniper rifle. You're generally shooting for area targets (say, about the size a fire team might take up), not the second shirt button from the top. 😆
@@Will_M600 It was added after launch in one of the updates. It is by far the best North MG. So despite it being comparatively rare in real life it's basically the only northern MG you see in the game. What's really cool is guns like the MG-34 and MG-42 are added by mods like GOM (complete with barrel changing!)
Theres a good bit of photos of RP46s with East German forces in the early 60s, and many photos of them in Vietnam. So the soviets likely surplused them when the PK replaced it
They are fairly common in Africa ... especially RDC . I understand that the civilian world finds it rare , it's actually not . Readily still in service ....due to tremendous reliability and low cost , easy training etc ...soviet armament is pretty common in Africa . Great video !!
I wonder what happened to Barrel number 1🤔.... The story in my head says it got lost in the Syrian mountains, where it was found and made into a cludge Syrian Draganouv / 7.62x54R "sniper" rifle, and then ended up in Afghanistan where it was used against American troops who then took it as a strange souvenir but got left in Afghanistan after they pulled out, and was found by a goat farmer who now uses it to shoot wolves going after his sheep and as a walking stick
Such an intersting idea. If i understand correctly you can shoot it with belts of ammunition but if you run out of belts you can just take off the belt feeding atachment and use good old ww2 plate mags in its place? I never knew that
22:20 I am going to guess if they did make a modest amount of these things they were the red headed stepchild of soviet MGs, and were first to be given away as military aid. Ending up in places where they were destroyed or simply discarded once better weapons were on hand.
Vietnam and Afghanistan comes to mind. If a lot of those were supplied to Vietnam, it makes sense that those weapons got phased out at one point, because the environmental conditions would not be kind to such tools over a longer time period.
Just a couple of hours ago i saw a DP-46 with AR style telescopic plastic butt in combat somewhere in Ukraine and Gun Jesus has a video out now, its an omen
From an ease of manufacture perspective, I am wondering how many employees the factory needs just to make that little all in one cleaning kit. 🙄 Noting when we watch Anastasia on the Zenitco channel we can see a large mallet is sometimes used on their AK products and I have seen training films in which a mallet is also used to assist in starting some of their early trucks, so the mallet was obviously a very important part of USSR tech.
If only having Max Popenker on the program was still a feasible option, I'm sure he would have an immeasurable amount of fascinating information to contribute. I still watch some of his videos sometimes and really enjoy it.
I normally don't hold with internet censorship, but l do appreciate Ian protecting me from the horrible violence perpetrated upon an innocent machine gun. Thank you, Ian.
@@ForgottenWeapons the use of that name is strongly discouraged while the Supreme Soviet is in the process of renaming the island as pedanticism is a decadent Western phenomenon that doesn't exist in the Soviet State.
Finns got around 9000 DP's as spoils of war during the winter and continuation wars, so much so that it replaced the Lahti-Saloranta M/26 because in the front lines because it was so reliable. Because the horizontal drum magazine and how it spinned during firing looked like a spinning record, so the Finnish soldiers during the wars started calling it Emma, a popular song at the time.
I wonder if the scarcity of information and production numbers hints at a limited run, or if they were simply overlooked in favor of more popular models like the PK.
The rest are probably sitting in a warehouse in the Urals, that everyone and their uncle forgot about, after going on a bender in the early 60's, where they lost the keys on the way home, and didn't feel inclined to tell KGB about said keys being gone. Big problem = bigger hammer.
I have a theory on the "puff-disappearance" of the gun: Russian sources say that this gun was officially called RP-46 (in Russian, РП-46 (or GAU index "56-Р-326")), not DP-46. This may be why the searches for "DP-46" fail. "RP" stands for "LMG" ("ruchnoi pulemyot" = "man-portable machinegun") or for "company-level machine gun" ("rotnyi pulemyot"). P.S. Degtyarev did not participate in designing this RP-46 upgrade. So, it naturally does not have his name on it. P.P.S. Russian Wiki says that Soviet RP-46's were in use in Albania till 1994 at the very least. Some were in East Germany. Some were in Belarus (scrapped in 2005).
22:40 Most Likely the RP-46 was being Rolled out as a Stop-Gap while R&D worked on the RPK - The fact that the RPK is a DPM with Integrated Feed Tray tells me that they Retooled their factories for mass production - rather than make a defunct product.
Maxim Popenker once said in an interview with you, that the original dimensions of the M43 cartridge once were 7.62x41mm. I read the thesis that the shortening of the cartridge by 3 mm reduced the range of the RPD-44 and that the RD-46 (and later the PK / PKM) were the result of the loss of power of the RPD-44. What do you think of this thesis?
And here we can see where some of the system of the PKM comes from. That's one of the best qualities of Kalašnjikov. Don't reinvent what doesn't need to be re-invented. Just adapt it to your design and make both better.
There is old black and white footage ca. 1965 (Battle of the Ia Drang Valley I believe) of one of these guns being used in combat in Vietnam by NVA troops. You can tell it’s an RP-46 from the belt feed as well as the ventilated barrel shroud.
The soviet practicality here is so cool, does your LMG have it's oiler and cleaning kit hidden in the buttstock? And does it have the cleaning rod nested in the crimps of the bipod? Damn, so cool.
I'm surprised that it worked as well as it did with the cartridge actually falling free into feed position. I ❤ weapons that carry a proper cleaning kit. Beats having just a bore-snake in the pistol grip.
Talked to one Vietnam vet who lost his buddy to an NVA ambush that was carried out by one rp - 46 and one RPD, a total of 15 men were KIA in that ambush and more than 25 were wounded.
16:38 Soviet Machine Gun Adjustment Tool was so important to them that they put it on their flag.
Yep. Same as the issued tools for their WWII armored vehicles...😉
Application of which is too violent for UA-cam so was censored for our protection...
@@CharlesTaylor-o9pif it works it ain't stupid😂
@@INSANESUICIDE soviets cant help themself but make everything universal
"comrade! we need to make more AK, for every situation! like RPK, and PSL comrade!"
"comrade! you need to make tool to fix all!"
@@therarenormal Too true, but I must admit the Warsaw pact gear does have its own rugged charm, I for one am quite weak for the wooden furniture on the SVD.
Where did it come from where did it go? Where did it come from Degytarev joe
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DP stands for "Дегтярев пехотный"(Degtyarev Pekhotnyi) which means Degtyarev for infantry use. Not Degtyarev Pulemyot. You can see this pattern on other Degtyarev guns like DT - "Дегтярев танковый"(Degtyarev Tankoviy) for tanks or DA - "Дегтярев Авиационный"(Degtyarev aviatsioniy) for airplanes. Not a big mistake but I think it was worth mentioning.
Interesting so I guess that naming convention began with the RPD?
Thank you so much for this insight!
@@nicholasstilley2370 It starts earlier. Basically DP is unique in its name due to the fact that it is a series of machine guns for different types of troops and it had to be emphasized by the name
That's Blasphemy! Gun Jesus is Infallible!!!...😉
So you can basically translate from English into Russian by adding "-oviy" or "-oniy" to the end of a word. I thought it would be harder!
This blacked out section by 16:41 - 16:51 is epic. UA-cam is bringing out the comedian in Ian.
"Not suitable for younger viewers."
Russian guns stronk. Cannot be hurt by Russian soldiers, best in world. Guns made from stronk Russian steel.
That reminds me of a joke i heard in Germany a few years ago, by a German soldier. "US Marines eat crayons, as we all know. Russian soldiers and army cannot afford crayons, they eat pencils."
@@LD-Orbs more like "Not suitable for our selectively chosen immensely liberal advertisers, sorry!"
"No DPs were harmed in the making of this video" 🙂
@@garavin "DP was not performed on the RP-46."
The transition from pizza fed to lasagna pasta fed
Tagliatelle
Would Hotchkiss-style feed strips be uncooked lasagna pasta?
Excellent comparison!!! 🤠👍
This was always my favourite gun to use in rising storm 2 Vietnam. Always managed to shoulder snipe helicopters out of the sky with that thing.
It’s such a beast legit swat them outta the sky
It's not entirely unrealistic either. Loved that game.
The pkm is supposed to be a sniper machine gun in real life
@@alijankhan3330can we slap a pso or any other Sniper-level scope on it?
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The PK/PKM's issued optics are designed for area fire, much like the MG34/42/MG3's were/are.
Ian dismantling the gun with a hammer is like that scene from Armageddon
“This!
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WHACK
How!
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We!
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Fix!
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Things!
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American components Russian Components , All made in Taiwan.
"Russian parts! American parts!
All! Made! In! Tai! Wan!"
As for what happened to the RP-46, one thing I could hypothesize happening was that while they most certainly got around, they could've also been kept as DP-27s feeding from the pan mags if they ever got out to other Soviet states and allies. Since the DPs and their magazines were kind of everywhere as is, all the major components are interchangeable, and the belt fed mechanism isn't permanently affixed to the gun, I can see smaller countries who already have pan mag stockpiles on hand to stick with them for a while. So there could be more RP-46s out there than we think, they're just missing the feed trays and the smaller telltale details aren't documented or specified.
Hell, I half expect there's crates full of just the feed trays in some warehouse in Russia, unless someone found them post-collapse and scrapped them for a quick buck.
@@corrinestenman5683there’s crates full of P38’s, Lugers, PP’s, Thompson’s, K98’s, STG’s, and god knows what else mothballed away in that country. There’s ABSOLUTELY crates full of these feed mechanisms lol.
@GetTheFO true, and it's probably a whole bunch of warehouses all across the former Soviet Union that have a crate or two of feed trays, though I suspect that there might be a number of complete weapons systems buried in random hidden caches established under Stalin's orders and have been forgotten since his death.
Yeah, this is pretty much the exact idea that I had. Either they took advantage of the stock of extra DPM barrels that were produced (you always need extras) or they just produced some more. (Same thing with the gas piston rods.)
Weight would be the main reason for retrofitting them, especially if they were going out to Third World revolutions instead of to motorized infantry.
IF that was the case we'd new it 'cuz they'd have the cut out for the carry handle
Finally,we did the thing,the belt fed DPM
The North Korean version was covered ages ago wasn't it?
@@fidjeenjanrjsnsfh this is the original Soviet version
It's a pretty cool idea really, although I really like the look of a DP with the original stock, it's a really cool relatively early light machine gun, with a very distinctive look, especially with the dinner plate magazine. The Soviet Record Player will always have a place in my heart, although I do understand the advantages of these modernizations to the design.
@ForgottenWeapons Ian, in case you have forgotten about your MG34 maintenance kit video (The one that fit into an ammo can). That thing also included a hammer. Which somehow is very fitting. The German MG34 maintenance includes "the soviet technique" and the RP-46 uses an unnecessarily complicated, almost German-ish, system to store is maintenance kit in the buttstock
Ok, not sure how the whole gun is as far as shooting or maintenance, but it seems absolutely nice to have the oiler, toolkit, and cleaning rod all integrated the way they did. Don't have to worry about whether you have what you need to maintain them in the field. Seems like they need a hammer as well, but I suppose you could somewhat rely on being able to find a rock or piece of wood, or maybe a buddy's rifle.
oh, UA-cam gets mad about automatic fire, but now it is prohibited even to show the use of the Soviet Machine Gun Adjustment Tool)))
that's why the screen goes dark on 16:40))
Thank you for another great video!
The video may get flagged as excessive violence lol
How to adjust Soviet machine gun: use hammer
How to disassemble Soviet machine gun: use hammer
How to assemble Soviet machine gun: use hammer
What to do one you run out of ammo: USE HAMMER
technically, it's a mallet...
Why do you think soviets had a hammer on their flag
Take a guess what they used sickles for
It might be a mallet but Bogdan will use it like hammer to fix things
So Jeremy Clarkson would be a perfect Soviet MG gunner, emmm
What to do when there's no hammer: USE ROCK!...😉
I think that this is the first totally intact tool kit and cleaning kit that I have seen on Forgotten Weapons, and I have been watching it for years.
Using a hammer to disassemble a gun is so very soviet comrade just like using potatoes for hand grenades.
The annoying part is that they can't find a way to put the hammer into the stock cleaning kit
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When percussive maintenance is officially in the manual...
@@UlisseDizante No need. Comrade commisar carries hammer in hip holster.
When you hear that a Russian rocket crashed on launch because a sensor was installed upside down, despite it being made not to fit that way, meaning someone must have had to hammer it in, yeah.
That’s because REAL grenades are EXPENSIVE! In fact, they are worth more than YOU are!
Absolutely fascinating weapon. I love the "Soviet MG adjustment tool". Prekrasno!
So let's go party, tovarisch. The Communist Party.
From record player to tape player
I gotta say your shorts are working. Ill be doomscrolling and ill see a short about a gun and go "oh fuck i wanna watch that" and come watch the full video.
Very true
We went from dinner plate magazine to a belt feed magazine. NGL, the RP-46 looks really good. I understand why the PK replaced it, but I wish we have reproduction models of it, even semi-auto ones.
SMG guns makes RP-46s, but like their FG42, they're not cheap and long waits.
Oh I'm sure can buy one in semi auto just expect to pay $4-6,000 for it and wait months to receive it.
When a reciprocating handle is essential and not just lazy engineering
Ian probably has the world record of stripping down many different types of firearms and reassembly.
I wonder if Ian ever speed tests himself.
‘This is my rifle this is my gun. This one’s for fighting and this is for fun’
Considering how old some of these designs are, I anticipate springs flying through the air.
Random farmers in Pakistan have him beat
@@abc-bm8pl Most of these guns he probably only disassembles once or twice ever. That's not really enough familiarity to have any sort of realistic speed test. The better test for Ian would be hand him a gun he's never seen before with no instructions and a wildly out of the norm disassembly and see if he can take it apart. At this point he's seen so many different styles from so many different cultures he's probably quite good at disassembly without a manual.
"If it's stupid and it works it's not stupid."
To b honest, it's less of a kludge than the M14's full auto mechanism.
I *LOVE* the RP-46! As part of the massive "immediate post war" rearmament program the Soviets had, it makes sense.
Erm....how does one get a cheek weld on this thing? Isn't it tricky?
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It was also a Soviet army dental tool...😉
I really like how the cleaning kit is stored around the weapon.
@@dscrappylocogolani9555 Best way is the way I was taught to shoot *most* bipod mounted MGs - wrap left hand over stock, press cheek on hand.
Either way, it's a *machinegun* , not a sniper rifle. You're generally shooting for area targets (say, about the size a fire team might take up), not the second shirt button from the top. 😆
What a clever and apparently effective conversion.
Hope Ian gets to do a coverage on the Maxim-Tokarev ... ( likely the less-known predecessor of DP-27 )?
Me too! I have yet to find one I can film.
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Also, it would be really exsiting to see PPT-27. First actual SovietTokarev SMG for 7.62 Nagant revolver round
RS2, Hill 973 as the PAVN. Kept the skies clear because it'd punch through Cobra cockpit glass. Thought it was a really cool addition to the game.
I don't remember seeing it in the game! Guess i was too busy flying the cobras 😂
OUR HOMES ARE SAFE
Lmg lound and mount it
Probably correct, as the early-model Bell AH-1G's did have notoriously-thin cockpit canopies...
@@Will_M600 It was added after launch in one of the updates. It is by far the best North MG. So despite it being comparatively rare in real life it's basically the only northern MG you see in the game. What's really cool is guns like the MG-34 and MG-42 are added by mods like GOM (complete with barrel changing!)
Theres a good bit of photos of RP46s with East German forces in the early 60s, and many photos of them in Vietnam. So the soviets likely surplused them when the PK replaced it
Love your work Ian, been a fan for a long time. Thank you and keep up the excellent work!
They are fairly common in Africa ... especially RDC . I understand that the civilian world finds it rare , it's actually not . Readily still in service ....due to tremendous reliability and low cost , easy training etc ...soviet armament is pretty common in Africa . Great video !!
Wow I just watched the DPM video and asked if we can review beltfed DP as well
I wonder what happened to Barrel number 1🤔.... The story in my head says it got lost in the Syrian mountains, where it was found and made into a cludge Syrian Draganouv / 7.62x54R "sniper" rifle, and then ended up in Afghanistan where it was used against American troops who then took it as a strange souvenir but got left in Afghanistan after they pulled out, and was found by a goat farmer who now uses it to shoot wolves going after his sheep and as a walking stick
The fact that it's plausible is pretty crazy lol, would be a hell of a life
That same farmer also uses it against horny Afghanis going after his goats...😉
The shit you read in the forgotten weapons comments…🙄🤦🏼♂️
It got shot smooth lmao it’s a machine gun what you think
Least convoluted combloc weapon origin story. At least it's not an Enfield bolt rifle still being used after 130 years.
Pretty elegant piece of machining. Reminds me of all the mechanisms to make a bolt action rifle into a semi auto.
Such an intersting idea. If i understand correctly you can shoot it with belts of ammunition but if you run out of belts you can just take off the belt feeding atachment and use good old ww2 plate mags in its place? I never knew that
Yes, correct. Easier to just load the ammunition into the empty belts, though.
@@ForgottenWeapons Still seems like a better system than some mag/beltfeds that came way later.
22:20 I am going to guess if they did make a modest amount of these things they were the red headed stepchild of soviet MGs, and were first to be given away as military aid. Ending up in places where they were destroyed or simply discarded once better weapons were on hand.
Vietnam and Afghanistan comes to mind. If a lot of those were supplied to Vietnam, it makes sense that those weapons got phased out at one point, because the environmental conditions would not be kind to such tools over a longer time period.
No jokes about the kiyanka. It's an absolutely serious tool! Very precise when it comes to fine adjustments! )))
Just a couple of hours ago i saw a DP-46 with AR style telescopic plastic butt in combat somewhere in Ukraine and Gun Jesus has a video out now, its an omen
Source image Plz 😭
From an ease of manufacture perspective, I am wondering how many employees the factory needs just to make that little all in one cleaning kit. 🙄
Noting when we watch Anastasia on the Zenitco channel we can see a large mallet is sometimes used on their AK products and I have seen training films in which a mallet is also used to assist in starting some of their early trucks, so the mallet was obviously a very important part of USSR tech.
If only having Max Popenker on the program was still a feasible option, I'm sure he would have an immeasurable amount of fascinating information to contribute. I still watch some of his videos sometimes and really enjoy it.
I normally don't hold with internet censorship, but l do appreciate Ian protecting me from the horrible violence perpetrated upon an innocent machine gun. Thank you, Ian.
Ian, a hammer is by definition made out of metal. The Soviet Machinegun Adjustment Tool you're using is a mallet.
Sounds like someone wants to sign up for a trip to Pedantic Terminology Island in the Gulag Archipelago... 😆
@@ForgottenWeapons not every day you get owned by Ian himself!
@@ForgottenWeapons the use of that name is strongly discouraged while the Supreme Soviet is in the process of renaming the island as pedanticism is a decadent Western phenomenon that doesn't exist in the Soviet State.
Absolutely genius design in every little detail.
That gas block is... upsetting.
I really love the muzzle cone, reminds me of the exhaust I have on my 69 HD electraglide. Atomic era design is just so pretty.
ДП (DP) is "Дегтярёв Пехотный" ("Degtiatyov Pekhotniy") meaning "Degtiatyov Infantry"
Finns got around 9000 DP's as spoils of war during the winter and continuation wars, so much so that it replaced the Lahti-Saloranta M/26 because in the front lines because it was so reliable. Because the horizontal drum magazine and how it spinned during firing looked like a spinning record, so the Finnish soldiers during the wars started calling it Emma, a popular song at the time.
A legend in Rising Storm 2.
Best lmg in rising storm 2
Put this video on and forgot while I shrederd an absolute tasty lick on my new PRS. Many thanks.
This is the content I enjoy at my funeral home.
That's flippen clever, it's like someone saw a Pez dispenser and a Dpm and said Nyet I've got a idea
The older DPs and DPMs gas could be adjusted by removing the cotter pin on the front plug and rotaing to larger apertures.
That cleaning kit is so frickin slick
When the screen goes dark. Ian’s like, “Believe me ya don’t wanna see this.” Hahaha
Great Video as usual ! Bulgarian Peoples Army used it, and from what I heard here everyone hated it !
There’s just something about the metal finish that just looks GOOD
I wonder if the scarcity of information and production numbers hints at a limited run, or if they were simply overlooked in favor of more popular models like the PK.
The rest are probably sitting in a warehouse in the Urals, that everyone and their uncle forgot about, after going on a bender in the early 60's, where they lost the keys on the way home, and didn't feel inclined to tell KGB about said keys being gone. Big problem = bigger hammer.
What's even better than percussive maintenance ? Percussive operation!
This is the most impressive piece of engineering/gunsmithing that I've ever seen (well, other than the hammer part)!
14:00 Real fans of Russian/Soviet engineering would be proud of this
this thing kicked ass in Rising Storm 2. i freakin loved it lol.
Legend says that under the kremlin there is a bunker filled to the brim with RP-46s to protect the leader if things goes south.
Disassembly so violent it had to be blacked out. Epic!
The belt feed system is literally the most Soviet way of solving such problems. Simple and ingenious.
LETS GOOOO RICK SMITH GIVE ME MY BELT FEED ADAPTER AND MY LIFE IS YOURS
I have a theory on the "puff-disappearance" of the gun: Russian sources say that this gun was officially called RP-46 (in Russian, РП-46 (or GAU index "56-Р-326")), not DP-46. This may be why the searches for "DP-46" fail.
"RP" stands for "LMG" ("ruchnoi pulemyot" = "man-portable machinegun") or for "company-level machine gun" ("rotnyi pulemyot").
P.S. Degtyarev did not participate in designing this RP-46 upgrade. So, it naturally does not have his name on it.
P.P.S. Russian Wiki says that Soviet RP-46's were in use in Albania till 1994 at the very least. Some were in East Germany. Some were in Belarus (scrapped in 2005).
22:40 Most Likely the RP-46 was being Rolled out as a Stop-Gap while R&D worked on the RPK - The fact that the RPK is a DPM with Integrated Feed Tray tells me that they Retooled their factories for mass production - rather than make a defunct product.
Retired slept in gang reporting.
Maxim Popenker once said in an interview with you, that the original dimensions of the M43 cartridge once were 7.62x41mm. I read the thesis that the shortening of the cartridge by 3 mm reduced the range of the RPD-44 and that the RD-46 (and later the PK / PKM) were the result of the loss of power of the RPD-44. What do you think of this thesis?
No, I don't think there is a significant different in power between the experimental 41mm case and the final 39mm case.
@@ForgottenWeapons Thanks.
I had no idea these existed! This is the com block MG I didn't know I needed....
Apologies if I missed it in the video, but can the 46 still use the original DP drum magazines with the belt feeder removed?
Yes.
@@ForgottenWeapons thanks for the answer Ian! They really thought things through with this gun.
Is that a VIRGIN Ian? It appears to be factory-fresh, with no visible signs of use (or abuse!)
some of RP-46 machine guns were used in Vietnam war by National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.
And here we can see where some of the system of the PKM comes from.
That's one of the best qualities of Kalašnjikov. Don't reinvent what doesn't need to be re-invented. Just adapt it to your design and make both better.
Looks like an amazing design: love it ❤
o yes Ian, nice work on this one, very impressive
Very interesting MG
Casio f-91w. Excellent choix mon cher Ian.
im working on a belt fed adapter too and this works pretty much the same but what im working on is like the dshk with the rotating part
There is old black and white footage ca. 1965 (Battle of the Ia Drang Valley I believe) of one of these guns being used in combat in Vietnam by NVA troops. You can tell it’s an RP-46 from the belt feed as well as the ventilated barrel shroud.
What a very well engineered clever mg
At first, I thought you were forgetting the FN mag and BAR, but this is not a redesign. Freaking genius. Soviets occasionally made really cool stuff.
Someone didn't get paid enough. It reminds me of the trapdoor mod that salvaged so much Civil War stock.
RP might stand for Rare Pulyemet here
On where all the guns went: unironically they probably just got lost. They’re just sitting in some depot that got entirely forgotten
Amazing bit of engineering really like a lot of weapons
It looks to be in great shape!
Its massive, heavy, and has a hilariously tiny capacity for such a humongous magazine
the only upside to playing PAVN in Rising Storm 2
Lord Ian, please bless us all with an ARX 160 video
Yes please. Along with that arak-21 too
The soviet practicality here is so cool, does your LMG have it's oiler and cleaning kit hidden in the buttstock? And does it have the cleaning rod nested in the crimps of the bipod? Damn, so cool.
That tool at 10:50 is for dying your Easter eggs.
I'm surprised that it worked as well as it did with the cartridge actually falling free into feed position. I ❤ weapons that carry a proper cleaning kit. Beats having just a bore-snake in the pistol grip.
"...more hammering..." xD Excellent tool usage.
I wonder if there were not all that many made. If there were, we should have seen them show up in the war.
Most the converted ones got given away as aid after the pkm was adopted
That top "pan mag" makes me think of the Lewis gun.
Well thought out gun the RP46
Ah the good old Double Penetration Machine Gun capable of taking mags and belts at the same time...
Talked to one Vietnam vet who lost his buddy to an NVA ambush that was carried out by one rp - 46 and one RPD, a total of 15 men were KIA in that ambush and more than 25 were wounded.
Went from jonathan ferguson' starship troopers to this, i can't take so much joy