The PKP Pecheneg (Russian: Печенег) is a Russian machine gun chambered for the 7.62x54mmR round. It is a modernized PK machine gun. The Pecheneg is said to be more precise than all its predecessors due to a heavier non-removable forced air cooling barrel with radial cooling ribs and a handle which eliminates the haze effect from hot gases and keeps the barrel cooler making the weapon more reliable.
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length (km)
1.2
weight (kg)
8700.0
origin
Russia
type
General-purpose machine gun
used in war
Second Chechen War, Syrian Civil War, Russo-Georgian war, 2014 Crimean crisis
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