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| ''[[Chronicles of a Dive Bomber (Khronika pikiruyushchego bombardirovshchika)]]'' || [[Oleg Dal]] || Yevgeni Sobolevski || Mounted on Pe-2 bomber || 1967
| ''[[Chronicles of a Dive Bomber (Khronika pikiruyushchego bombardirovshchika)]]'' || [[Oleg Dal]] || Yevgeni Sobolevski || Mounted on Pe-2 bomber || 1967

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Shpitalny-Komaritski ShKAS aircraft machine gun - 7.62x54mmR. This is a turret version.

ShKAS (means Shpitalny-Komaritski Aviatsionny Skorostrelny - Rapid fire machine gun for aircraft designed by Shpitalny and Komaritski) is a Soviet machine gun widely used by Red Army aviation in the late 1930s and during World War II. It was designed by Boris Shpitalniy and Irinarkh Komaritsky and entered production in 1934. This machine gun had a very high rate of fire - 1800 RPM (3000 RPM in the UltraShKAS modification). It was produced in fixed version for fighter planes and in turret version for bombers.

The ShKAS can be seen in the following films:

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Valery Chkalov Mounted on I-16 fighters and SB bombers 1941
Chronicles of a Dive Bomber (Khronika pikiruyushchego bombardirovshchika) Oleg Dal Yevgeni Sobolevski Mounted on Pe-2 bomber 1967
In Flight are the Night Witches (V nebe 'Nochnye vedmy') Soviet female pilots Mounted on Po-2 biplanes 1981
Torpedo Bombers (Torpedonostsy) Mounted on IL-4 torpedo bombers 1983