Home›Machine Guns And Automatic Weapons›Country of Origin›Soviet UnionBrowse BySoviet UnionFactsSoviet UnionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1884 1Soviet UnionFilter Results12 entriesWeapon ClassAllMachine Gun (11)Submachine Gun (1)Weapon FamilyAllAircraft Machine Guns (1)General-Purpose and Medium Machine Guns (1)Heavy Machine Guns (3)Light Machine Guns (5)Multi-Barrel and Rotary Machine Guns (1)Introduced EraAll1925 (1)1928 (2)1938 (1)1939 (1)1948 (1)1949 (1)1959 (1)1961 (1)1968 (1)1971 (1)1974 (1)ManufacturerAllDegtyarev plant (1)Kovrov Machine-Gun Factory (1)Tula Arms Plant (4)Vyatskiye Polyany Machine-Building Plant (2)OperatorAllEgyptian Armed Forces (1)Finnish Defence Forces (1)Hezbollah (1)People's Liberation Army (1)Red Army (4)Soviet Armed Forces (5)Spanish Armed Forces (1)CaliberAll12.7x108mm (2)14.5x114mm (1)5.45x39mm (1)7.62x39mm (2)7.62x54mmR (5)76.2×385 mm R (1)Service StatusAllIn Service (8)Prototype or Experimental (1)Retired (3)Wars Used InAllAngolan Civil War (2)Cambodian Civil War (2)Chinese Civil War (2)First Chechen War (3)First Indochina War (2)First Sudanese Civil War (1)Gulf War (3)Iran-Iraq War (2)Iraq War (4)Kargil War (1)Korean War (4)Laotian Civil War (3)Russo-Georgian War (3)Russo-Ukrainian War (5)Rwandan Civil War (1)Second Chechen War (2)Second Sino-Japanese War (1)Second Sudanese Civil War (1)Six-Day War (1)South African Border War (2)Soviet-Afghan War (3)Spanish Civil War (3)Sri Lankan Civil War (1)Syrian Civil War (3)Vietnam War (4)Winter War (2)World War II (4)Yom Kippur War (1)Yugoslav Wars (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 12DP-27 Machine GunSoviet UnionDS-39Soviet UnionDShKSoviet UnionGShG-7.62 machine gunSoviet UnionKPV heavy machine gunSoviet UnionMaxim-TokarevSoviet UnionNSV machine gunSoviet UnionPV-1 machine gunSoviet UnionRPD Machine GunSoviet UnionRPKSoviet UnionRPK-74Soviet UnionTokarev Model 1927Soviet UnionSources1. Wikipedia: Machine guntier 2WikipediaMachine gun, History, Maxim and World War I sectionQuote, Machine gun, History, Maxim and World War I sectionThe first practical self-powered machine gun was invented in 1884 by Sir Hiram Maxim.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.