The RPK (Ruchnoy Pulemyot Kalashnikova Russian: Ручной пулемёт Калашникова or Kalashnikov hand-held machine gun) is a 7.62x39mm light machine gun of Soviet design developed by Mikhail Kalashnikov in the late 1950s parallel with the AKM assault rifle. It was created as part of a program designed to standardize the small arms inventory of the Red Army where it replaced the 7.62x39mm RPD light machine gun.
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length (km)
1.04
weight (kg)
4800.0
origin
Soviet Union
type
Light machine gun
used in war
Sino-Vietnamese War, Yugoslav Wars, Cambodian–Thai border dispute, Vietnam War, Second Chechen War, Rhodesian Bush War, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Soviet war in Afghanistan, Iraq War, Libyan Civil War, Syrian Civil War, First Chechen War, Cambodian Civil War, Cambodian–Vietnamese War, Russo-Georgian war
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