The NSV (Russian НСВ Никитина-Соколова-Волкова) is a 12.7 mm caliber heavy machine gun of Soviet origin named after the designers G. I. Nikitin (Г. И. Никитин) Y. S. Sokolov (Ю. М. Соколов) and V. I. Volkov (В. И. Волков). It was designed to replace the DShK machine gun and was adopted by the Soviet Army in 1971.
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length (km)
1.56
weight (kg)
25000.0
origin
Soviet Union
type
Heavy machine gun
used in war
Lebanese Civil War, Soviet war in Afghanistan, Iraq War, Syrian Civil War, Gulf War, Russo-Georgian war, War in Afghanistan (1978–present), Nagorno-Karabakh War
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