This is a DSHK .50" (roughly) caliber heavy machine gun, converted to an infantry support weapon. Typically these guns are mounted to a tripod or vehicle, but Ukraine has been converting these to infantry support weapons by adding a bipod, carry handle, shoulder stock, gigantic muzzle break(to make recoil bearable), new handle and new trigger assembly.
For anyone wondering, a DSHK heavy machine gun is 34kg or 75 pounds.
Here’s a video that discusses it in detail, and covers similar american prototype conversions with their equivalent heavy machine, the M2 Browning (38kg, 84lbs). https://youtu.be/fd98XcRm0bM?si=MebMTYuxTRKu2cHV
Ukraine has been converting these to infantry support weapons by adding a bipod, carry handle, shoulder stock, gigantic muzzle break(to make recoil bearable), new handle and new trigger assembly.
That laundry list of upgrades makes me appreciate how hard it must be to machine a good receiver and barrel for something like this; those are practically the only parts not listed.
This is a DSHK .50" (roughly) caliber heavy machine gun, converted to an infantry support weapon. Typically these guns are mounted to a tripod or vehicle, but Ukraine has been converting these to infantry support weapons by adding a bipod, carry handle, shoulder stock, gigantic muzzle break(to make recoil bearable), new handle and new trigger assembly.
For anyone wondering, a DSHK heavy machine gun is 34kg or 75 pounds.
Here’s a video that discusses it in detail, and covers similar american prototype conversions with their equivalent heavy machine, the M2 Browning (38kg, 84lbs).
https://youtu.be/fd98XcRm0bM?si=MebMTYuxTRKu2cHV
That laundry list of upgrades makes me appreciate how hard it must be to machine a good receiver and barrel for something like this; those are practically the only parts not listed.
When you treat Commando as a military training manual instead of an LGBT break-up story.
Ukrainian gunsmithing is wild.
This one and the 2-mile sniper: