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* {{flagcountry|Islamic Republic of Afghanistan}}: DPM<ref name="SAS 2012 10">{{cite book|url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2012.html|chapter-url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2012/eng/Small-Arms-Survey-2012-Chapter-10-EN.pdf|chapter=Surveying the Battlefield: Illicit Arms In Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia|title=Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=2012|author=Small Arms Survey|author-link=Small Arms Survey|page=332|isbn=978-0-521-19714-4|access-date=2018-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831002411/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2012.html|archive-date=2018-08-31|url-status=dead}}</ref> and RP-46 variants<ref>{{cite book|title=Afghanistan, Arms and Conflict: Armed Groups, Disarmament and Security in a Post-War Society|first1=Michael Vinai|last1=Bhatia |first2=Mark |last2=Sedra|publisher=[[Routledge]]|editor=Small Arms Survey|editor-link=Small Arms Survey|isbn=978-0-415-45308-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P4N9AgAAQBAJ|page=65|date=May 2008}}</ref>
* {{flag|Albania}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009">{{cite book |editor1-first=Richard D. |editor1-last=Jones |editor2-first=Leland S. |editor2-last=Ness |title=Jane's Infantry Weapons 2009/2010 |date=January 27, 2009 |edition=35th |publisher=Jane's Information Group |location=Coulsdon |isbn=978-0-7106-2869-5}}</ref>
* {{flag|Algeria}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Angola}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Benin}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Bulgaria}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2002">{{cite book |editor1-first=Terry J.|editor1-last=Gander|editor2-first=Charles Q. |editor2-last=Cutshaw|title=Jane's Infantry Weapons 2001/2002 |date=2001 |edition=27th |publisher=Jane's Information Group |location=Coulsdon |isbn=9780710623171}}</ref>
* {{flag|Central African Republic}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Republic of China (1912-1949)|name=Republic of China}}: Received 5,600 from the Soviet Union as aid from 1938.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shih |first1=Bin |title=China's Small Arms of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) |date=2022 |isbn=979-8473557848 |pages=176 |publisher=Independently published |edition=2021}}</ref><ref name ="Chinese Army">{{cite book|title=The Chinese Army 1937–49: World War II and Civil War|series=Men-at-Arms 424|first=Philip |last=Jowett|date=10 Jul 2005|isbn=9781841769042|publisher=[[Osprey Publishing]]|page=15}}</ref>
* {{PRC}}: DPM and RP-46 locally built as Type 53 and Type 58{{sfn|Smith|1969|p=297}}
* {{flag|Comoros}}: RP-46 and Type 58 variants.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Congo-Brazzaville}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Cuba}}: DP, DT, DTM,{{sfn|Smith|1969|p=22}} DPM and RP-46 variants.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Czechoslovakia}}: ''DP'', DPM and RP-46 variants.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Military Surplus Magazine|date=December 15, 2016|title=Eastern Bloc Firestorm: The Czech UK vz. 59 Machine Gun|first=Paul|last=Scarlata|url=https://www.tactical-life.com/firearms/uk-vz-59/|access-date=6 January 2019|archive-date=26 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926023402/https://www.tactical-life.com/firearms/uk-vz-59/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* {{flag|Egypt|1958}}<ref name="Yemen"/>
* {{flag|Equatorial Guinea}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Ethiopia}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Finland}}: Used captured examples during World War II.<ref>[http://www.winterwar.com/Weapons/SuSmallArms/SUAutomatics.htm Soviet Machine guns and Light Machine guns in the Winter War] at winterwar.com</ref>
* {{flag|East Germany}}: DT and DTM variants.{{sfn|Smith|1969|p=381}}
* {{flagcountry|Nazi Germany}}: Captured models were issued to the [[Volkssturm]].<ref>{{cite book|page=329|title=Desperate Measures: The Last-Ditch Weapons of the Nazi Volkssturm|author=W. Darrin Weaver|year=2005|publisher=Collector Grade Publications |isbn=978-0889353725}}</ref>
*{{flag|Hungary|1949}}: ''DP'', DPM and DTM variants.<ref>{{cite book |last1= Lugosi |first1= József |editor1-first= József |editor1-last= Lugosi |editor2-first= György |editor2-last= Markó |title= Hazánk dicsőségére: 160 éves a Magyar Honvédség |year= 2008 |publisher= Zrínyi Kiadó|location= Budapest |isbn= 978-963-327-461-3 |page= 384 |chapter= Gyalogsági fegyverek 1868–2008}}</ref> Locally produced as M-27.<ref name ="Hungary 1956"/>
* {{flag|Indonesia}}{{sfn|Smith|1969|p=461}}
* {{flagcountry|Iraq}}: [[Iraqi insurgency (2003–11)|Iraqi insurgents]] used RP-46 variant.<ref name="SAS 2012 10B">{{cite book|url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2012.html|chapter-url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2012/eng/Small-Arms-Survey-2012-Chapter-10-EN.pdf|chapter=Surveying the Battlefield: Illicit Arms In Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia|title=Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=2012|author=Small Arms Survey|author-link=Small Arms Survey|page=321|isbn=978-0-521-19714-4|access-date=2018-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831002411/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2012.html|archive-date=2018-08-31|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*{{flag|Kingdom of Italy}}: The [[Italian Army in Russia]] used captured examples as they were more reliable than the [[Breda 30]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Riccio |first1=Ralph |title=Italian small arms of the first & second world wars |date=2013 |publisher=Schiffer Publishing |isbn=9780764345838 |page=160}}</ref>
* {{flag|Laos}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Libya}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Nigeria}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|North Korea}}: DPM, Type 53 and RP-46 variants.<ref name="fas">{{cite web|url=http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/dprk/nkor.pdf|date=2 November 1998|title=NORTH KOREA COUNTRY HANDBOOK &#124; MARINE CORPS INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITY|access-date=2015-09-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=North Korean Small Arms (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)|magazine=Small Arms Review|volume=16|issue=2|date=June 2012|url=https://smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=1108|access-date=2019-02-03|archive-date=2019-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202212301/https://smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=1108|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* {{flagicon image|Flag_of_PAIGC.svg}} [[PAIGC]]<ref>{{cite book |last= Djaló|first= Amadú Bailó|date= 2010|title= Guineense, Comando, Português|trans-title= Guinean, Commando, Portuguese |url= https://associacaocomandos.pt/associacao-comandos/publicacoes/livros/guineense-comando-portugues/|language= Portuguese|location= Lisboa|publisher= Associação de Comandos|page= 139|isbn=978-989-95601-1-6}}</ref>
* {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Palestine_-_short_triangle.svg}} [[Palestine Liberation Organization]]<ref name="Arabs">{{cite book|title=Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars 1948–73|series=Men-at-Arms 128|first=John |last=Laffin|date=15 Jun 1982|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=9780850454512|page=37}}</ref>
* {{flag|Poland}}: Used by [[Polish Army in USSR]] during World War II<ref>{{cite book|title=The Polish Army 1939–45|url=https://archive.org/details/polisharmy00zalo|url-access=limited|series= Men-at-Arms 117 |first=Steven J.|last=Zaloga|date=1982|isbn=9780850454178|publisher=Osprey Publishing|page=[https://archive.org/details/polisharmy00zalo/page/n47 39]}}</ref> and then during the Cold War era (DPM and RP-46 variants).{{sfn|Smith|1969|p=526}}
* {{flagicon|Romania|1952}} [[Socialist Republic of Romania|Romania]]: DP and DPM used after the war.{{sfn|Smith|1969|p=533}}
* {{flag|Seychelles}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Somalia}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Soviet Union}}<ref name="modern">[https://modernfirearms.net/en/machineguns/russia-machineguns/dp-dpm-rp-46-eng/ Degtyarev DP DPM RP-46 (Russia / USSR)] at modernfirearms.net</ref>
* {{flag|Spanish Republic}}<ref>{{cite book|title=Uniforms of the Soldiers of Fortune|date=1985|isbn=9780713713282|first1=Leroy|last1=Thompson|first2=Ken|last2=MacSwan|publisher=Blandford Press|place=Poole|pages=[https://archive.org/details/uniformsofsoldie00thom/page/117 117–118]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/uniformsofsoldie00thom/page/117}}</ref>
*{{flag|Sri Lanka}}: Type 58 variant<ref>{{cite book |last= Smith | first= Chris | title= In the Shadow of a Cease-fire: The Impacts of Small Arms Availability and Misuse in Sri Lanka | publisher= Small Arms Survey |date=October 2003 |url= http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/B-Occasional-papers/SAS-OP11-Sri-Lanka.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110112185613/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/B-Occasional-papers/SAS-OP11-Sri-Lanka.pdf |url-status= dead |archive-date= January 12, 2011 |series=Occasional Paper No. 11|page=14}}</ref>
* {{flag|Sudan}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{SYR}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name ="FranceSoir"/>
* {{flag|Syrian opposition}}: Regular ''DP27''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycm6y2120dE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/Ycm6y2120dE |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|title=Footage of weapons which were handed over by rebels to the Syrian Arab Army in Southern Damascus |website=[[YouTube]] |date=12 May 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Used by the Martyrs Of Islam rebel faction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/syrian-civil-war-wwii-weapons-used/|title=Syrian Civil War: WWII weapons used|date=November 2019}}</ref>
* {{flag|Tanzania}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Togo}}: RP-46 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{Flag|Ukraine}}<ref>{{cite web|author=sapeurgalanet|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHTtvNizmkE&t=2804s|title=Кулемет ДП-27 | website=[[YouTube]] |date=2022-01-25|access-date=2022-03-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603170710/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHTtvNizmkE|archive-date=June 3, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Chris McGrath |url=https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/members-of-the-ukrainian-military-wait-at-a-forward-news-photo/1383102453|title=Russians Continue Assault On Outskirts Of Kyiv|publisher=Getty Images|date=2022-03-07|access-date=2022-03-25}}</ref>
* {{flag|Vietnam}}: DPM, Type 53, RP-46 and Type 58 variants<ref name ="NVA">{{cite book|title=North Vietnamese Army Soldier 1958–75|series=Warrior 135|first=Gordon L. |last=Rottman |date= 10 Feb 2009|publisher=[[Osprey Publishing]]|isbn=9781846033711|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iC21CwAAQBAJ|page=31}}</ref>
* {{flag|Yemen}}<ref name="Yemen">{{cite web|title=WWII weapons in Yemen's civil war|url=https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/wwii-weapons-in-yemens-civil-war/|website=wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com|date=September 9, 2018}}{{Self-published source|date=September 2018}}</ref>
* {{flagcountry|SFR Yugoslavia}}{{sfn|Smith|1969|p=723}}
* {{flag|Zambia}}: RP-46 variant.<ref>{{cite news|author=Zambia Watchdog |url=https://www.zambiawatchdog.com/zambia-dented-instability-to-continue-upto-2021-economist-group/ |title=Zambia dented, instability to continue up to 2021 – Economist Group |newspaper=Zambian Watchdog |publisher=Zambia Watchdog |date=2017-06-09 |access-date=2017-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616235649/https://www.zambiawatchdog.com/zambia-dented-instability-to-continue-upto-2021-economist-group/|archive-date=June 16, 2021}}</ref>{{Div col end}}