Degtyarev Machine Gun

[TJD]

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?

Not to belabor the point but I do think you're fundamentally confused about the nature of the Degtaryev. This is a light machine gun, roughly equivalent to the US BAR. It was used, like the BAR, as the squad base of fire. All modern infantry tactics are essentially based on the protection and support of the automatic weapons and are designed around them. There were no separate Degtaryev platoons because unlike the MG42 it could not be configured as a heavy as well as a light machine gun. In game terms, the Degtaryev is represented in the basic firepower of Russian infantry units in the same way the BAR is present in the numbers for US infantry platoons.

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

You may be confusing Maximum Range with Effective Range. Bullets can travel much farther than they can be accurately or effectively fired.

/TJD