Ukrainian Armed Forces successfully use vintage machine guns from Soviet chest
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Ukraine was once used as the forward repository of weapons and ammunition for the Soviet Union and much of that legacy remains, which Kyiv is putting to good use.
Kyiv Post reports how 60-year-old S-125 air defense launchers firing 40-year-old missiles was having success against modern Russian missiles and drones. However, this is not the oldest weapon that Ukraine has mothballed to fight the Russians.
The Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova light machine gun was designed by Vasily Degtyaryov in 1943 and, while some made their way to the battlefield at the tail end of World War II it didn’t go into large-scale production in the Soviet Union until 1953.
It was introduced in the 1920s and was intended to be used as a section support weapon that could be operated by a single soldier.
The Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova was chambered for the 7.62 x 39mm M43 cartridge which became the standard small arms round for the USSR, Warsaw Pact countries and others used by the ubiquitous AK 47 beloved of “freedom fighters” the world over.
It was considered by many to be the grandfather of the general-purpose machine guns medium caliber automatic squad support weapons such as the US M-60, the FN Minimi and the UK L86 light support weapon.
Considered by shooters as a simplistic weapon it is precisely why the RPD has proved popular with armed forces the world over and is still used even after it was replaced by Kalashnikov’s Pulemyot.
Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova has an effective firing range of 1,000 meters with a firing rate of around 650 rounds a minute and is fed by two non-disintegrating 50-round belts contained in a drum-shaped box magazine.
In Vietnam, US special forces used these guns with cut-down barrels as an individual close quarter weapon because it was so much lighter than the US M60, the box magazine was less liable to snagging and it had an impressive rate of fire. For those reasons and more, the Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova is now being extensively used by Ukraine forces for trench clearing.
These weapons were actively used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the Battle of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, which raged for ten months from July 2022 to May 2023.
Journalists and milbloggers were shocked to see Bakhmut’s defenders using a weapon that first appeared more than 140 years ago - the Pulemyot Maxima M1910 belt fed, heavy machine gun.
Pulemyot Maxima M1910 is Russia's version of the UK’s Maxim machine gun which first appeared in the 1880s. Moscow’s version, as the nomenclature makes clear, entered service in 1910 and saw action during the Russian civil war and both World Wars. The use by Ukrainian forces makes it undeniably the world’s longest-serving machine gun.
The war in Ukraine has proved that to not be the case and that has also breathed fresh life into the Maxim.
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The M2 deserves an honorable mention for being over a hundred years old and in use in Ukraine and all over the world.
There is a company in the Southwest that still manufactures new ones.
Actually, the US M60 can trace its roots to the German FG42 and MG42, not a weapon in the Soviet Union.
irony. it's like the helots turning against the spartans
Apparently Putin forgot how big the Ukraine army in the Soviet Union was & how much stuff the Soviet Union left behind 😂
В 2015-2018 годах, Путин уничтожил склады с оружием и не только в Украине, а и в Болгарии и Чехии.
That announcer is so hot.
In 2015-2018, Putin destroyed weapons warehouses not only in Ukraine, but also in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.
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