Editing Degtyaryov machine gun (section)

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{{Infobox weapon
|is_ranged = yes
|name = DP machine gun
|image = Machine gun DP MON.jpg
|image_size = 300
|caption = DP-27
|origin = [[Soviet Union]]
|type = [[Light machine gun]]
|designer = [[Vasily Degtyaryov]]
|design_date = 1927
|production_date = 1928–1950s
|service = 1928–present
|used_by = See ''[[#Users|Users]]''
|wars = [[Spanish Civil War]]<br />[[Winter War]]<br />[[World War II]]<br />[[Second Sino-Japanese War]]<br />[[Korean War]]<br />[[Chinese Civil War]]<br />[[First Indochina War]]<br />[[Vietnam War]]<br />[[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]<ref name ="Hungary 1956">{{cite book|title=The Hungarian Revolution 1956|series=Elite 148|publisher=[[Osprey Publishing]]|first1= Erwin |last1=Schmidl|first2= László |last2=Ritter|date=10 Nov 2006|isbn=9781846030796|page=63}}</ref><br />[[Laotian Civil War]]<br />[[North Yemen Civil War]]<ref name="Yemen"/><br />[[Cambodian Civil War]]<br />[[Cambodian-Vietnamese War]]<br />[[Rhodesian Bush War]]<br />[[Portuguese Colonial War]]<br />[[War in Afghanistan (1978–present)|Afghan Wars]]<br />[[Sino-Vietnamese War]]<br />[[Sri Lankan civil war|Sri Lankan Civil War]]{{Citation needed|reason=Needs a source|date=December 2020}}<br />[[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Armenian RP-46 during Nagorno-Karabakh War. |url=https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/466474473890009020/?lp=true |website=Pinterest |access-date=2 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref><br />[[Georgian Civil War]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/151545628@N03/36638745106/in/dateposted-public/|title=DP-28 in action During Georgian Civil War|date=2017-08-20}}</ref><br />[[Yugoslav Wars]]<br />[[Somali Civil War]]<br />[[Iraq War]]<ref name="Mcnab">{{cite book |last1=McNab |first1=Chris |title=Soviet Machine Guns of World War II |date=2022 |publisher=Osprey Publishing}}</ref><br />[[First Libyan Civil War]]<br />[[Northern Mali conflict]]<br />[[Syrian Civil War]]<ref name ="FranceSoir">{{cite news|language=fr|title=Syrie: les ISIS Hunters, ces soldats du régime de Damas formés par la Russie|url=http://www.francesoir.fr/politique-monde/syrie-les-isis-hunters-ces-soldats-du-regime-de-damas-formes-par-moscou-bachar-al-assad-forces-speciales-russie-syriens-etat-islamique-palmyre-daech-stephane-mantoux-5e-corps|date=30 May 2017|work=[[France-Soir]]|access-date=4 September 2018|archive-date=10 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910043934/http://www.francesoir.fr/politique-monde/syrie-les-isis-hunters-ces-soldats-du-regime-de-damas-formes-par-moscou-bachar-al-assad-forces-speciales-russie-syriens-etat-islamique-palmyre-daech-stephane-mantoux-5e-corps|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />[[Russo-Ukrainian War]]<ref name="Mcnab" />
|cartridge = [[7.62×54mmR]]
|caliber = 7.62 mm
|action = [[Gas-operated]], [[flapper locking]]
|rate = 550&nbsp;rpm
|velocity = 840&nbsp;m/s (2,755&nbsp;ft/s)
|range = 800&nbsp;m (874.9 yd)
|weight = {{convert|9.12|kg|lb|2|abbr=on}} (unloaded)<br /> {{convert|11.5|kg|abbr=on}} (loaded)
|length = {{convert|1270|mm|in|1|abbr=on}}
|part_length = {{convert|604|mm|abbr=on|1}}
|feed = 47-round [[pan magazine]]
|sights = Adjustable iron sights, front post and rear notch on a scaled tangent
|variants = See ''[[#Variants|Variants]]''
|number = 795,000<ref>{{cite web |last1=Suciu |first1=Peter |title=Meet the DP-28: The Red Army's "Record Player" (Or Killer Machine Gun) |url=https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/meet-dp-28-red-armys-record-player-or-killer-machine-gun-163703 |website=National Interest |date=29 June 2020 |access-date=23 December 2022}}</ref>
}}

The '''Degtyaryov machine gun''' ({{langx|ru|Пулемёт Дегтярёва Пехотный|Pulemyot Degtyaryova Pekhotny}} literally: "Degtyaryov's infantry machine gun") or '''DP-27/DP-28''' is a [[light machine gun]] firing the [[7.62×54mmR]] cartridge that was primarily used by the [[Soviet Union]], with service trials starting in 1927, followed by general deployment in 1928.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McCollum |first=Ian |date=2021-08-13 |title=Stalin's Record Player: The DP-27 Light Machine Gun |url=https://www.forgottenweapons.com/stalins-record-player-the-dp-27-light-machine-gun/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=www.forgottenweapons.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://soldat.pro/en/2018/06/29/rychnoi-pylemet-degtiareva-dp-27-patron-kalibr-762-mm/ | title=RPD machine gun DP-27 caliber cartridge 7,62 mm &#124; soldat.pro – military experts. Unites the best! }}</ref>

Besides being the standard Soviet infantry [[light machine gun]] (LMG) during [[World War II]], with various modifications it was used in aircraft as a flexible defensive weapon, and it was equipped on almost all [[List of tanks of the Soviet Union|Soviet tanks]] in WWII as either a flexible bow machine gun or a [[Weapon mount#Coaxial|co-axial]] machine gun controlled by the gunner. It was improved in 1943 producing the DPM, but it was replaced in 1946 with the RP-46 which improved on the basic DP design by converting it to use belt feed. The DP machine gun was supplemented in the 1950s by the more modern [[RPD (weapon)|RPD machine gun]] and entirely replaced in Soviet service by the general purpose [[PK machine gun]] in the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-12-21 |title=Неудачам вопреки: как появился легендарный советский пулемет ДП |url=https://rg.ru/2021/12/21/neudacham-vopreki-kak-poiavilsia-legendarnyj-sovetskij-pulemet-dp.html |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Российская газета |language=ru}}</ref>