The 12.7×108mm cartridge is a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun and anti-materiel rifle cartridge used by the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries, including Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and many others.

The NSV Utyos (Cyrillic: НСВ, initialism for Никитин-Соколов-Волков, Nikitin-Sokolov-Volkov; Russian: Утёс, lit. 'Cliff'), is a Soviet heavy machine gun chambered in 12.7×108mm. It is named after the designers, G. I. Nikitin, Y. М. Sokolov and V. I. Volkov. It was designed to replace the DShK machine gun and was adopted by the Soviet Army in 1971.

The DShK is a belt-fed machine gun firing the 12.7×108mm cartridge, and uses a butterfly trigger. [16] Firing at 600 rounds per minute, it has an effective range of 2.4 km (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi), and can penetrate up to 20 mm of armor up to a range of 500 m. [17] The DShK has two "spider web" ring sights for use against aircraft.

2018年1月4日 · However, outside the U.S. and western sphere of influence, most of the world's militaries more commonly associate the .50-caliber (12.7mm) heavy machine gun with two Russian designers: Vasily Degtyarov and Georgi Shpagin. Both Degtyarov and Shpagin were accomplished Russian smallarms designers in the interwar years.

2024年12月13日 · Chinese 12,7mm Type 85 and W85 machine guns have been used by both regular army units and various insurgents in armed clashes in Darfur, the conflict in northern Mali, and the civil wars in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.

Currently within the Warsaw Pact the 12.7mm machinegun is used primarily in an antiaircraft role mounted on the cupola of medium tanks. It Is standard on the T-54 series, and is found on some T-55 and T-62 models as well. Sometimes it is also used on armored personnel carriers and amphibious scout cars.

This is a fairly modern tank heavy machine-gun that boasts small weight and dimensions, good accuracy and dispersion properties. The new machine-gun that is going to replace NSV(T) as a tank-carried HMG is Kord, that has recently entered production; according to some reports there is also a new 14.5mm HMG that is being tested for tank AAMG role.

2022年3月15日 · The Kord Heavy Machine Gun is chambered to fire the large 12.7x108mm cartridge, a machine gun/heavy rifle round in large scale use since World War 2. In comparison, the Soviet 12.7x108mm is very comparable in scope and function to the western 12.7x99mm cartridge and, thusly, finds similar battlefield uses including that of suppression fire and ...

NSV-12,7 heavy machine gun on 6T7 infantry tripod. NSV-12,7 on ZPU anti-aircraft mount. Caliber: 12,7×109 mm Weight: 25 kg gun body, 41 kg on tripod 6T7 with 50rounds of ammo Length: 1560 mm (1900 mm on 6T7 tripod) Length of barrel: 1346 mm Feeding: belt 50 rounds Rate of fire: 700-800 rounds/min

The first heavy machine gun to be produced in China was the 12.7mm Type 54, a straight-up copy of the Soviet DShKM 1938/46, made on Soviet machinery, using Soviet documentation and assistance. This weapon fired the 12.7x108mm round of Soviet origin, which was roughly similar in performance to the American .50 BMG round.