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[[File:RPD-Light-Machine-Gun.jpg|thumb|right|500px|RPD - 7.62x39mm]] | |||
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The '''RPD''' (Russian: ручной пулемёт Дегтярёва; ''Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyareva''; "Degtyarev's Handheld Machine Gun) light machine gun was initially developed in the late stages of WWII, it was briefly adopted by Soviet armed forces as a light machine gun in the late 50s and early 60s, later replaced by [[RPK]] magazine-fed LMG and, more significantly, the highly successful [[PKM]] belt-fed GPMG. | |||
==Specifications== | |||
(1944 – 1960s) | |||
* | * '''Type:''' Light Machine Gun | ||
* | * '''Caliber:''' 7.62×39mm | ||
* | * '''Weight:''' {{convert|kg|7.4}} | ||
* | * '''Length:''' {{convert|mm|1037}} | ||
* | * '''Barrel length:''' {{convert|mm|520}} | ||
* | * '''Feed System:''' 100-round non-disintegrating belt fed from a drum: MACV-SOG operators in Vietnam are known to have used a converted 125-round drum lined with linoleum to prevent it rattling. | ||
* | * '''Fire Modes:''' Full-Auto | ||
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{{Gun Title}} | |||
===Film=== | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%" | |||
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Title''' | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Actor''' | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character''' | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Note''' | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date''' | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan=2|''[[Maksim Perepelitsa]]'' || [[Sergei Sibel]] || Pvt. Samus || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|1955 | |||
|- | |||
| [[Aleksandr Susnin]] || Pvt. Ezhikov | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan=2|''[[Blue Arrow (Golubaya strela)]]'' || [[Yuriy Bogolyubov]] || Sgt. Grechka || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|1958 | |||
|- | |||
| || Saboteurs | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Soldier's Heart (Soldatskoye serdtse)]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 1959 | |||
|- | |||
|'' [[Odd Angry Shot, The|The Odd Angry Shot]] || || VC || || 1979 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Beast of War, The|The Beast of War]] || || Mujahideen || || 1988 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Born on the Fourth of July]]'' || || Viet cong soldier || || 1989 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Cargo 300 (Gruz 300)]]'' || || Afghan mujaheddins || || 1989 | |||
|- | |||
|'' [[Sniper (1993)|Sniper ]] || || Drug lord's personal guards || || 1993 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Never Say Die]]'' || || FBI commando || Fitted with heat shield || 1994 | |||
|- | |||
|'' [[Dead Presidents]] || || An enemy machine gun crew || || 1995 | |||
|- | |||
|'' [[Goldeneye]] || || Soviet Soldier || || 1995 | |||
|- | |||
|'' [[Courage Under Fire]] || || Iraqi soldiers || || 1996 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Avalon]] || || One of Bishop's NPC party members || || 2001 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Behind Enemy Lines]]'' || || Serbian soldier || || 2001 | |||
|- | |||
|'' [[We Were Soldiers]] || || NVA Soldier || || 2002 | |||
|- | |||
|'' [[Tears of the Sun]] || || A militia fighter || || 2003 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Battle of Long Tan, The|The Battle of Long Tan]] || || Vietcong || || 2006 | |||
|- | |||
|'' [[Hitman (2007)|Hitman]] || [[Henry Ian Cusick]] || Udre Belicoff || || 2007 | |||
|- | |||
|'' [[Shooter]] || || Soldiers || || 2007 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[The Interview]] || Diana Bang|| Director of Communications Sook || DS Arms || 2014 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[22 Minutes (22 minuty)]]'' || || Somali Pirates || || 2014 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Mad Max: Fury Road]] || || || mounted on rig || 2015 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Tanks for Stalin (Tanki)]]'' || || German saboteurs || Visually modified as [[MG34]] || 2018 | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan=2|''[[The Axe (Topor)]]'' || [[Andrey Smolyakov]] || Ivan Rodin || rowspan=2|Visually modified as [[MG34]] || rowspan=2|2018 | |||
|- | |||
| || A German soldier | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
===Television=== | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%" | |||
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Title''' | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Actor''' | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character''' | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="350"|'''Note''' | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="65"|'''Date''' | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="3"|''[[Ultimate Force]]'' || || Georgian Soldier || rowspan="3"|Fed from drum and fitted with a flash-hider/BFA || rowspan="3"|2002-2006 | |||
|- | |||
| || Russian Soldiers | |||
|- | |||
| [[Julian Rivett]] || Klimov | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Archer - Season 6]]'' || || Bornean Insurgent || Fed from drum magazine || 2015 | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan=2|''[[The Saboteur 3: Crimea (Diversant. Krym)]]'' || Aleksandr Oblasov || Senya Korol || rowspan=2|Visually modified as [[MG34]] || rowspan=2|2020 | |||
|- | |||
| || German soldiers | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan=3|''[[One Warrior in the Field (Odin v pole voin)]]'' || [[Aleksandr Sokolovskiy]] || Capt. Andrey Perevezyev || rowspan=3|Visually modified as [[MG34]]; On motorcycles and an armored car || rowspan=3|2018 | |||
|- | |||
| Ruslan Sasin || Venya Ladurevich | |||
|- | |||
| || German soldiers | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[The Last Battle (Posledniy boy)]]'' || [[Vladimir Gorislavets]] || Yashka || Visually modified as [[MG34]] || 2019 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Topi]] || || ||seen on the training poster; "Frenzy" (S1E04), "Transfiguration" (S1E05) || 2021 | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
===Video Games=== | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%" | |||
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Game Title''' | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Appears as''' | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Mods''' | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Notation''' | |||
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|''' Release Date''' | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear]]'' || || || Unusable || 1999 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix|Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix]]'' || || || || 2002 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Vietcong]]'' || || || || 2003 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield]]'' || || || || 2003 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Battlefield: Vietnam]]'' || || || || 2004 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Conflict: Vietnam]]'' || || || || 2004 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Splinter Cell Chaos Theory]]'' || || || || 2005 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Vietcong 2]]'' || || || || 2005 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Elite Warriors Vietnam]]'' || || || || 2005 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare]]'' || RPD || || Incorrectly used by Russian Troops in the 2010s || 2007 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[7.62 High Calibre]]'' || || || || 2008 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2]]'' || RPD || w/ RIS foregrip, suppressor, red dot sight, EOTech holographic sight, Trijicon ACOG, thermal sight, and/or extended magazine || Incorrectly used by Russian Troops in the 2010s || 2009 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Max Payne 3]]'' || RPD || || || 2012 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops II]]'' || RPD || || Incorrectly used by Russian Troops in the 1980s; model reused from Modern Warfare 2 || 2012 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Call of Duty Online]]'' || RPD || || DS Arms RPD || 2013 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Warface]]'' ||RPD Custom ||||DS Arms RPD||2013 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Survarium]]'' || || || || 2013 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Contract Wars]]'' || || || DS Arms RPD || 2014 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[World of Guns: Gun Disassembly]]'' || RPD || || || 2014 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Squad]]'' || RPD || || Introduced with V2.0 update || 2015 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades]]'' || || || || 2016 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Rising Storm 2: Vietnam]]'' || |||| || 2017 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War]]'' || RPD || With a variety of attachments || || 2020 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Far Cry 6]]'' '' || || || Cut-down MACV-SOG/Rhodesian style || 2021 | |||
|- | |||
| ''[[Enlisted]]'' '' || || || RD-44 || 2021 | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
[[Category:Gun]] | [[Category:Gun]] | ||
[[Category:Machine Gun]] | [[Category:Machine Gun]] |
Latest revision as of 18:03, 28 December 2022
The RPD (Russian: ручной пулемёт Дегтярёва; Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyareva; "Degtyarev's Handheld Machine Gun) light machine gun was initially developed in the late stages of WWII, it was briefly adopted by Soviet armed forces as a light machine gun in the late 50s and early 60s, later replaced by RPK magazine-fed LMG and, more significantly, the highly successful PKM belt-fed GPMG.
Specifications
(1944 – 1960s)
- Type: Light Machine Gun
- Caliber: 7.62×39mm
- Weight: 16.3 lbs (7.4 kg)
- Length: 40.8 in (103.7 cm)
- Barrel length: 20.5 in (52 cm)
- Feed System: 100-round non-disintegrating belt fed from a drum: MACV-SOG operators in Vietnam are known to have used a converted 125-round drum lined with linoleum to prevent it rattling.
- Fire Modes: Full-Auto
The RPD and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Maksim Perepelitsa | Sergei Sibel | Pvt. Samus | 1955 | |
Aleksandr Susnin | Pvt. Ezhikov | |||
Blue Arrow (Golubaya strela) | Yuriy Bogolyubov | Sgt. Grechka | 1958 | |
Saboteurs | ||||
Soldier's Heart (Soldatskoye serdtse) | Soviet soldiers | 1959 | ||
The Odd Angry Shot | VC | 1979 | ||
The Beast of War | Mujahideen | 1988 | ||
Born on the Fourth of July | Viet cong soldier | 1989 | ||
Cargo 300 (Gruz 300) | Afghan mujaheddins | 1989 | ||
Sniper | Drug lord's personal guards | 1993 | ||
Never Say Die | FBI commando | Fitted with heat shield | 1994 | |
Dead Presidents | An enemy machine gun crew | 1995 | ||
Goldeneye | Soviet Soldier | 1995 | ||
Courage Under Fire | Iraqi soldiers | 1996 | ||
Avalon | One of Bishop's NPC party members | 2001 | ||
Behind Enemy Lines | Serbian soldier | 2001 | ||
We Were Soldiers | NVA Soldier | 2002 | ||
Tears of the Sun | A militia fighter | 2003 | ||
The Battle of Long Tan | Vietcong | 2006 | ||
Hitman | Henry Ian Cusick | Udre Belicoff | 2007 | |
Shooter | Soldiers | 2007 | ||
The Interview | Diana Bang | Director of Communications Sook | DS Arms | 2014 |
22 Minutes (22 minuty) | Somali Pirates | 2014 | ||
Mad Max: Fury Road | mounted on rig | 2015 | ||
Tanks for Stalin (Tanki) | German saboteurs | Visually modified as MG34 | 2018 | |
The Axe (Topor) | Andrey Smolyakov | Ivan Rodin | Visually modified as MG34 | 2018 |
A German soldier |
Television
Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ultimate Force | Georgian Soldier | Fed from drum and fitted with a flash-hider/BFA | 2002-2006 | |
Russian Soldiers | ||||
Julian Rivett | Klimov | |||
Archer - Season 6 | Bornean Insurgent | Fed from drum magazine | 2015 | |
The Saboteur 3: Crimea (Diversant. Krym) | Aleksandr Oblasov | Senya Korol | Visually modified as MG34 | 2020 |
German soldiers | ||||
One Warrior in the Field (Odin v pole voin) | Aleksandr Sokolovskiy | Capt. Andrey Perevezyev | Visually modified as MG34; On motorcycles and an armored car | 2018 |
Ruslan Sasin | Venya Ladurevich | |||
German soldiers | ||||
The Last Battle (Posledniy boy) | Vladimir Gorislavets | Yashka | Visually modified as MG34 | 2019 |
Topi | seen on the training poster; "Frenzy" (S1E04), "Transfiguration" (S1E05) | 2021 |
Video Games
Game Title | Appears as | Mods | Notation | Release Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear | Unusable | 1999 | ||
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix | 2002 | |||
Vietcong | 2003 | |||
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield | 2003 | |||
Battlefield: Vietnam | 2004 | |||
Conflict: Vietnam | 2004 | |||
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory | 2005 | |||
Vietcong 2 | 2005 | |||
Elite Warriors Vietnam | 2005 | |||
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare | RPD | Incorrectly used by Russian Troops in the 2010s | 2007 | |
7.62 High Calibre | 2008 | |||
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | RPD | w/ RIS foregrip, suppressor, red dot sight, EOTech holographic sight, Trijicon ACOG, thermal sight, and/or extended magazine | Incorrectly used by Russian Troops in the 2010s | 2009 |
Max Payne 3 | RPD | 2012 | ||
Call of Duty: Black Ops II | RPD | Incorrectly used by Russian Troops in the 1980s; model reused from Modern Warfare 2 | 2012 | |
Call of Duty Online | RPD | DS Arms RPD | 2013 | |
Warface | RPD Custom | DS Arms RPD | 2013 | |
Survarium | 2013 | |||
Contract Wars | DS Arms RPD | 2014 | ||
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly | RPD | 2014 | ||
Squad | RPD | Introduced with V2.0 update | 2015 | |
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades | 2016 | |||
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam | 2017 | |||
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | RPD | With a variety of attachments | 2020 | |
Far Cry 6 | Cut-down MACV-SOG/Rhodesian style | 2021 | ||
Enlisted | RD-44 | 2021 |