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Arsenal | The NVA’s Soviet Light Machine Gun

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A popular automatic weapon with North Vietnamese infantry squads, the Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryov, or Degtyaryov light machine gun, was designed in the late 1940s by Vasily Degtyaryov to replace the DPM light machine gun in Soviet rifle platoons. The new 7.62 mm RPD was 10 pounds lighter than any machine gun then in service and …

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