DT (7.62 mm)
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Description
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The DT is a Russian light machine gun equipped on various vehicles, first put into combat in 1928.
Vehicles equipped with this weapon
| Vehicles equipped with this weapon | |
|---|---|
| Light tanks | |
| BT-5 | BT-5 · RBT-5 |
| BT-7 | BT-7 · BT-7 TD · BT-7A (F-32) · BT-7M |
| T-26 | T-26 · T-26 (1st Gv.T.Br.) · ␗T-26 · T-26 No.531 · T-26-4 · T-26E |
| Other | BA-11 · T-50 · T-60 · T-70 · T-80 · T-126 |
| Medium tanks | |
| T-28 | T-28 · T-28E · T-28 (1938) |
| T-34 | T-34 (Prototype) · T-34 (1941) · T-34-57 · T-34 (1st Gv.T.Br.) · T-34 (1940) · T-34 (1942) · ␗T-34 (1943) · ▀T 34 747 (r) · T-34E · T-34E STZ |
| T-34-57 | T-34-57 (1943) |
| T-34-85 | T-34-85 (D-5T) · ␗Т-34-85 (S-53) · T-34-85 · T-34-85 No.215 · T-34-85E · Т-34-85 Gai |
| T-34-100 | T-34-100 |
| T-44 | T-44 · T-44-100 · T-44-122 |
| Heavy tanks | |
| IS-2 | IS-2 · ␗IS-2 · IS-2 No.402 · IS-2 (1944) · IS-2 "Revenge" · ␗IS-2 (1944) |
| KV-1 | KV-1 (L-11) · KV-1 (ZiS-5) · KV-1E · KV-1S · ▀KV-IB |
| KV-2 | KV-2 (1940) · KV-2 (ZiS-6) · ▀KW II 754 (r) |
| Matilda | ▂MK-II "Matilda" |
| Other | IS-1 · IS-3 · IS-6 · KV-85 · KV-122 · KV-220 · T-35 |
| Tank destroyers | ZiS-30 |
General info
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Available ammunition
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Comparison with analogues
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Usage in battles
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History
After World War I, the new Soviet government and its military sought to learn from their experience in World War I. The light machine guns were a particular type of weapons that were looked into, inspired by the Russian experience using the British Lewis machine gun. The Soviet military tasked Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov with the job of designing a new light machine gun for the Red Army. The weapon Degtyaryov designed was a very simple design chambering the 7.62x54R mm cartridge, with six working parts needed for the machine gun's function. The weapon was also loaded by a pan-shaped magazine in a manner similar to the Lewis machine gun, a trait that Soviet soldiers would nickname the weapon as proigryvatel ("phonograph" or "record player").[1] Degtyaryov's weapon was adopted as the Red Army's newest light machine gun in 1927 as the DP machine gun.[2]
The DP machine gun would serve as the Red Army's infantry light machine gun from 1927 to throughout World War II, though the initial models had issues with bipod structural strength and the lack of a manual safety (only a grip safety was present).[2] Until World War II, the only considered modification of the DP machine gun, based on fighting experience against the Japanese and their Type 11 machine guns in 1938-1939, was transforming the feed mechanism from using the large pan-shaped magazine to a slimmer hopper-type system that is fed by ammunition clips. However this design was dropped due to awkward handling and unsatisfactory reliability.[3] Following experience from World War II battles, the DP machine gun underwent a modernization between 1943-1944 as the DPM, which introduced a pistol grip, redesigned stock, a safe/fire selector, the repositioning of the recoil spring to the rear, and a stronger bipod.[4]
The DP was also be used as vehicle mounts under the variations DA for aircraft mounts, and DT and the modernized DTM for tank mounts. These variants were notable for their removed barrel shroud for a heavy barrel, different stock design (the DT would have a collapsible stock), and a redesigned magazine that was smaller in width, but taller in height to reduce the weapon's width for mounting within a constrained vehicle space.[2][5]
After World War II, the Soviet decide to replace the cumbersome pan-magazine on the DP with a belt-fed system. The DP machine gun was modified once again in 1946 with an add-on module that converts a DP to be able to take an ammunition belt from the SG-43/SGM machine gun.[6] This modification was adopted as the RP-46 (Rotnyj Pulemet (Company Machine Gun), 1946). The machine gun would remain in use in the Soviet military until supplemented by the universal PK machine gun.[2]
The DP and its variations sees wide-spread use in Soviet-aligned countries such as North Korea and China.[2][7]
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See also
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External links
- References
- Bibliography
- McCollum, Ian, "DP-28 vs DPM." Forgotten Weapons, 27 Apr. 2011, Website. Accessed 29 Mar. 2021.
- McCollum, Ian, "DTM Manual." Forgotten Weapons, 24 Jan. 2011, Website. Accessed 29 Mar. 2021.
- McCollum, Ian, "Kubynov hopper-fed DP28." Forgotten Weapons, 16 Mar. 2011, Website. Accessed 29 Mar. 2021.
- McCollum, Ian, "RP46 LMG." Forgotten Weapons, 10 Jan. 2011, Website. Accessed 29 Mar. 2021.
- McCollum, Ian, "RP46 Variations: Russian, North Korean, and US Reproduction." Forgotten Weapons, 04 Jul. 2018, Website. Accessed 29 Mar. 2021.
- Popenker, Maxim, "Degtyarov DP DPM RP-46." Modern Firearms, Website. Accessed 29 Mar. 2021.
- War Is Boring "The DP Machine Gun Looks Funny, But Spilled a Lot of Blood." Medium, A Medium Corporation, 23 Feb. 2016, Website. Accessed 29 Mar. 2021.
| Tank machine guns | |
|---|---|
| USA | |
| 7.62 mm | M37 · M60D · M73 · M240 · M1919A4 · Mk.52 |
| 12.7 mm | FN M3P · M2HB · M80 · M85 |
| Germany | |
| 5.56 mm | MG4 |
| 7.62 mm | C6 · MG3A1 |
| 7.92 mm | MG13 Dreyse · MG34 · MG37(t) · MG42 |
| 12.7 mm | S.MG.50 |
| USSR | |
| 7.62 mm | DT · PKMB · PKT · PKTM · RP-46 · SGMT |
| 12.7 mm | DK · DShK · 6P49 · NSVT |
| 14.5 mm | KPVT |
| Britain | |
| 7.62 mm | Browning MG4 · L3A1 · L8A1 · L8A2 · L37A1 · L37A2 · L94A1 |
| 7.7 mm | Vickers |
| 7.92 mm | BESA |
| 12.7 mm | L21A1 |
| Japan | |
| 6.5 mm | Type 91 |
| 7.62 mm | Type 74 |
| 7.7 mm | Type 97 |
| 12.7 mm | Type 60 (B) |
| China | |
| 5.8 mm | QJT |
| 7.62 mm | Type 55 · Type 59 · Type 86 |
| 12.7 mm | QJC88A · Type 54 |
| 14.5 mm | QJG02 |
| Italy | |
| 7.62 mm | Beretta MG42/59 · FN MAG 60-40 |
| 8 mm | 34/40M · Breda Mod. 38 |
| 13.2 mm | Breda Model 31 |
| France | |
| 7.5 mm | AAT-52 · MAC 31 |
| 7.62 mm | A-A-F1N |
| 8 mm | Hotchkiss Mle 1914 |
| Sweden | |
| 6.5 mm | ksp m/14-29 |
| 7.62 mm | ksp 39 C · ksp 58 · ksp 94 |
| 8 mm | ksp m/36 · ksp m/39B |
| 12.7 mm | ksp 88 |
