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PK machine gun facts for kids

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PKM machine gun in storage
The PKM with various accessories.

The PK is a machine gun designed in the Soviet Union and is still being used currently by the Russian Army. The PK went in produtcion in 1961 and entered in 1969 to replace the Degtyaryov and the SG-43. The PK was designed by the AK-47 inventor named Mikhail Kalashnikov. The Russian factory produced over 1,000,000 PK machine guns since the 1960s and today.

Images for kids

  • TKB-264 at Tula State Museum of Weapons

    Front to back: PKM prototype, model of Shpitalniy tank machine gun prototype, TKB-264

  • 7,62 KK PKM Helsinki 2012

    PKM general-purpose machine gun with modern black polymer furniture and a 100-round ammunition box. Note the non-fluted barrel and revised flash hider.

  • 7,62 PKM Lippujuhlan päivä 2014 2

    Rear iron sight element on a PKM receiver

  • ReconCompany4thOTBr24

    PKP Pecheneg with 100-round ammunition box

  • Pecheneg-SP - Oboronexpo2014part4-02

    Pecheneg-SP machine gun

  • VV-Day2016-39

    Russian police serviceman with a PKM machine gun

  • PKM Machine Gun Iraq

    Iraqi Army soldier firing a PKS machine gun as part of the School of Infantry.

  • Syrian soldier with a machine gun

    Syrian soldier with a PKM machine gun.

See also

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