The Degtyaryov machine gun (Russian: Пулемёт Дегтярёвa Пехотный Pulemyot Degtyaryova Pekhotny Degtyaryov’s infantry machine gun) or DP is a light machine gun firing the 7.62×54mmR cartridge that was used primarily by the Soviet Union starting in 1928. The DP machine gun was supplemented in the 1950s by the more modern RPD machine gun and entirely replaced in Soviet service by the general purpose PK machine gun in the 1960s.
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length (km)
1.27
weight (kg)
9120.0
origin
Soviet Union
type
Light machine gun
used in war
Korean War, Sino-Vietnamese War, Somali Civil War, Chinese Civil War, Vietnam War, Winter War, World War II, Rhodesian Bush War, Second Sino-Japanese War, Spanish Civil War, Libyan Civil War, Syrian Civil War, First Indochina War, Laotian Civil War, Cambodian Civil War, Cambodian–Vietnamese War
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