Vasily Degtyarev

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Vasily Degtyarev

Russian inventor

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After the war, Vasily Degtyarev of the Soviet Union incorporated Schmeisser’s principles into his own designs, culminating in the Pistolet Pulemyot Degtyarova of 1940. The PPD was fed by a drum-shaped magazine containing 71 7.62-mm cartridges, and it fired at a rate of 900 rounds per minute—far too…
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After the war, Vasily Degtyarev of the Soviet Union incorporated Schmeisser’s principles into his own designs, culminating in the Pistolet Pulemyot Degtyarova of 1940. The PPD was fed by a drum-shaped magazine containing 71 7.62-mm cartridges, and it fired at a rate of 900 rounds per minute—far too…
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