DShK in Batey ha-Osef museum, Israel.
DShK
Type	heavy machine gun
Nation(s) of Origin	Soviet Union
Era
History
Date of design	1938
Production period
Service duration
Operators	Soviet Union,
War service	WW2
Variants	DShKM
Number built
Specifications
Type	air cooled
Caliber	12.7
Barrel length	1070 mm
Ammunition	12.7 x 109 mm
Magazine	belt 50 rounds
Action	gas
Length	1625 mm
Weight	34 kg (gun only) 157 kg on wheeled mounting
Rate of fire	600 rounds/min
Muzzle velocity	850 m/s
Effective range

The DShK (ДШК, for Дегтярёва Шпагина Крупнокалиберный, Degtyarev-Shpagin Large Calibre) is a Soviet heavy anti-aircraft machine gun firing 12.7×107 mm Soviet cartridges, also used at some times as an heavy machine gun for infantry use, in which case it was frequently seen on a two-wheeled mounting with a single-sheet armour-plate gun shield. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (766x1094, 239 KB) Summary Description: DShK 12. ... The word calibre (British English) or caliber (American English) designates the interior diameter of a tube or the exterior diameter of a wire or rod. ... In firearms terminology, an action is the system of operation that the firearm employs to seal the breech (in a breech-loading firearm), and to load consecutive rounds. ... State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Socialist republics/ Communist state Area  - Total  - % water Largest on the planet 22,402,200 km² ?% Population  - Total  - Density 3rd before collapse 293,047,571 (July... The 12. ...

It took its name from the weapons designers Vasily Degtyarev, who designed the original weapon, and Georgi Shpagin, who improved the feed mechanism. It is sometimes nicknamed Dushka, from the abbreviation. Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyarev (Васи́лий Алексе́евич Дегтярёв) (January 2, 1880 - January 16, 1947), Russian weapons designer. ...

History

The requirement for a heavy AA machine gun appeared in 1929. The first gun the Degtyarev, Krupnocalibernyi (DK, Degtyarev, Large calibre) was built in 1930 and this gun was produced in small quantities from 1933 to 1935.

Although it fired a heavy bullet, the gun was fed from a drum magazine of only 30 rounds, leading to an overall poor rate of fire. Shpagin developed a belt feed mechanism to fit to the DK giving rise, in 1938, to the adoption of the gun as the DShK-38. This became the standard Soviet heavy machine gun in World War II. Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 7 million military deaths World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as the largest and deadliest...

The DShK was used in several roles. As an anti-aircraft weapon it was mounted on pintle and tripod mounts, and on a triple mount on the GAZ-AA truck. Late in the war, it was mounted on the cupolas of IS-2 tanks and ISU-152 self-propelled guns. As an Infantry heavy support weapon it used a two-wheeled trolley, similar to that developed by Sokolov for the 1910 Maxim gun. It was also mounted in vehicle turrets, for example, in the T-40 light amphibious tank. The Iosef Stalin tank, named after Joseph Stalin, was a heavy tank developed by the Soviet Union during World War II. It is sometimes transliterated Iosif Stalin, from the Russian, Иосиф Сталин. ... The ISU-152 was a Soviet self-propelled gun used during World War II. // History The ISU-152 (in Russian ИСУ-152) used the same concept as the earlier SU-152: a large gun placed on the hull of a heavy tank. ... 7,62 станковый пулемет системы Максима образца 1910 года Type Machine Gun Nation USSR Era WWI - WWII History Date of design 1910 Production period 1910 to 1939 1941 to 1945 Service duration 1910 to ? Operators USSR, War service WWI - WWII Variants M1910/30 Number built Specifications Type Calibre 7. ... The T-40 was a light tank used by the Soviet Union during World War II. Because it was not the best tank available to the Soviets (that crown belonged to the T-34), very little in the way of T-40s were seen on the battlefields. ...

In 1946, the DShK-38/46 or DShKM (M for modernised) version was introduced.

As well as by the Soviet Union and Russia, the DShK has been manufactured by a number of countries, including China, Pakistan and Romania. It has largely been phased out in favour of the more modern "NSV" and "Kord" designs. ToqerTV via NSV Nullsoft Streaming Video (NSV) is a media container designed for streaming video content over the internet. ...

See also

• The Browning M2 machine gun is the American counterpart of the DShK.

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External links

• DShK and DShKM at guns.ru.