Russian soldiers have converted a 14.5-mm KPVT (Vladimirov heavy machine gun, tank) into a heavy infantry machine gun. Footage has appeared on social networks.
In the video, it can be seen that the weapon is now mounted on a special homemade support. The 23-mm 2A14 automatic cannon from the ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun has already been modified in a similar way.
The KPVT machine gun is mainly installed on armored vehicles and combat boats. The weapon is designed to engage lightly armored targets, firing positions, and enemy personnel.
Cartridges with B-32 armor-piercing incendiary bullets, BZT armor-piercing tracer bullets, and MDZ instantaneous action incendiary bullets are used for firing at ground and air targets.
Main characteristics of the KPVT:
- Weight — 52.2 kg
- Technical rate of fire — 550-600 rounds/min
- Combat rate of fire — 70-80 rounds/min
- Sighting range: for air targets — 1500 m, for ground targets — 2000 m
- Barrel cooling — air
Earlier, www1.ru reported that Russia had significantly increased the production of unmanned boats for the Navy.
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