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The KPV-14.5 heavy machine gun (KPV is an initialism for Krupnokaliberniy Pulemyot Vladimirova in Russian as Крупнокалиберный Пулемёт Владимирова or КПВ) is a Soviet designed 14.5x114mm-caliber heavy machine gun which first entered service as an infantry weapon (designated PKP) in 1949. In the 1960s the infantry version was taken out of production because it was too big and heavy.
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