Russian soldiers have converted a 14.5mm KPVT (Vladimirov heavy machine gun, tank version) into a heavy infantry machine gun. Footage has appeared on social media.
The video shows that the weapon is now mounted on a special homemade support. A similar modification has already been made to the 23mm 2A14 automatic cannon from the ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun.
The KPVT machine gun is mainly mounted on armored vehicles and combat boats. The weapon is designed to engage lightly armored targets, firing positions, and enemy personnel.
For firing at ground and air targets, cartridges with B-32 armor-piercing incendiary bullets, BZT armor-piercing tracer bullets, and MDZ instantaneous action incendiary bullets are used.
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 has significantly increased the production of unmanned boats for the Navy.
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