Shpitalny-Komaritski ShKAS

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

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

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Shpitalny-Komaritski ShKAS aircraft machine gun - 7.62x54mmR

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
Deep Raid (Glubokiy reid)			Mounted on I-16 fighters	1938
Squadron No. 5 (Eskadrilya No. 5)	Nikolai Garin	Mayor Pyotr Grishin	Mounted on SB bombers in nose twin and dorsal and ventral single mountings	1939
	Sofiya Altovskaya	Sr. Lt. Olga Grishina
	Andrei Apsolon	Gnatenko
		Navigators and gunners
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

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Release Date
Heroes & Generals		Mounted in Petlyakov Pe-3bis (tailgun)	2016