Why Russia’s DShK Machine Gun Is Fighting Around the World
Around nine thousand DShK’s were produced during World War II, serving primarily in Red Army anti-aircraft units.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Dushka and KPV machine guns mounted on trucks continue to play a major role on all sides of the civil wars in Syria and Libya, and insurgency in Iraq, and even crop up in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Modern Western warplanes now mostly use precision-guided weapons at high altitudes that leave them well outside the range of heavy machine gun fire.
Few American weapons are quite so legendary as the powerful M2 .50 caliber heavy machine gun, or “Ma Deuce,” still widely employed a century after its initial development in 1918. However, the Soviet Union built its own .50 caliber weapon that became just as widespread and punched out its own mark on world history from Vietnam and Afghanistan to Somalia and Syria today.
PPsH-41: Meet the Submachine Gun That Drove the Soviet War Machine
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Why Russia’s Type 49 ‘Burp Gun’ Was a Communist’s Weapon of Choice
Submachine guns began to appear near the end of World War I to help soldiers clear out trenches in brutal short-range assaults.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Communist troops would infiltrate close to UN positions under the cover of night then surged forward in a human wave only visible at short range. While many attackers fell to defensive fire, once the shock troops flooded into the UN outposts, their burp guns hosed out greater volumes of firepower.
Submachine guns began to appear near the end of World War I to help soldiers clear out trenches in brutal short-range assaults. These short barreled, highly portable automatic weapons usually employed the simple blowback principle in which the gasses expelled by a low-powered pistol cartridge both propelled the round out of the barrel and pushed back the weapon’s bolt, allowing a new round to pop up into the chamber to be fired once the bolt sprang bac