Degtyarev Machine Gun

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I would like to see how they used them in combat formations and their doctrine of use.

I have just read that it was 1 mg per Rifle squad... so I guess in reality it was no mg platoons? :chin:

Did Germans have? like we operate them separately MG platoons?

[i]"The Degtyarev DP was a Soviet light machine-gun produced from 1928 to 1941, entering service with the Russian army in 1928 and remaining in service with infantry squads until the 1950s. It takes a 7.62 mm x 54R cartridge from a 47-round drum magazine and fires in automatic mode only at a cyclic rate of 550 or 600 rounds-per-minute and a muzzle velocity of 840 meters per second to an effective range of 800 meters.

This is funny! All English sources say it is 800. All Russian's - 1500m. A "little" difference ;)

I guess I'll have to check it myself


Dmitriy