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Old June 11, 2018, 11:33 PM   #1
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Can anyone tell me what machine gun this is?

I've seen this soviet tank mounted machine gun many times before. The sight is very peculiar and I cannot find anything about it anywhere. What is it?
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Old June 11, 2018, 11:41 PM   #2
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I don't know about that crazy sight, but it looks like something in the DShKM family of 12.7x108 caliber machine guns in use since about '38 or so.
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Old June 11, 2018, 11:43 PM   #3
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I am in no way a machine gun expert or foreign weapons expert. but that looks like a M2 .50 cal with a barrel sleeve and flash suppressor to make it look not American. Of course I'm probably wrong, but that's what it looks like to me
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Old June 12, 2018, 12:20 AM   #4
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Well I found out, thanks to 10-96 pointing out it is a dshkm. The sight is simply the antiaircraft sight.

https://www.ima-usa.com/products/ori...nt=26170194245
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Old June 12, 2018, 03:10 AM   #5
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No. That's not a DShKM.

cannonfire is correct:
It's a Browning with some random giblets glued on to make it look, "not American".
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Old June 12, 2018, 08:04 AM   #6
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They didn't even do a very convincing job with the hot glue gun...

The receiver on the DShKM looks nothing like the gun in that picture.
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Old June 12, 2018, 08:15 AM   #7
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Yeah, definitely not a DShK receiver. You can also clearly see the hand of John Browning at work on the MG receiver in the picture.
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Old June 12, 2018, 09:04 AM   #8
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Old June 12, 2018, 09:52 AM   #9
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From a "Rambo" movie???
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Old June 12, 2018, 10:16 AM   #10
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While I know nothing of foreign guns, I’ll agree that the receiver looks like an M2.
Look at the projectile size... I don’t think that guy could fire that big cannon with so little weight behind it unless it’s got some recoil mitigation device that I cannot see. Also, the barrel looks like it’d pretty tough to even lift lol.
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Old June 12, 2018, 10:57 AM   #11
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The Soviet DShKM isn't a cannon.

It is, power wise, very comparable to the power of the .50 BMG round fired from the M2 machine gun.

The DShKM is designed to be supported by a variety of mountings.

It also has a pretty effective muzzle brake that helps reduce recoil significantly.
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Old June 12, 2018, 12:49 PM   #12
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Hollywood prop gun, built on an M2 browning receiver. Made to resemble a Soviet machine gun.

In some of the Rambo movies they did this, and some even used M60 recievers, mocked up to resemble DshK guns.

They did it, simply because the correct real guns were not available. Remember, its a movie, and the gun doesn't have to be real, it just has to look real enough for a few seconds at a time.
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Old June 12, 2018, 02:00 PM   #13
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Thanks Mike, I know nothing about it, just looking at the size of the hole in the muzzle. I also didn’t see any ports for a brake, however, I do see a tube that could be a recoil damper. In the pic, the barrel looks pretty massive compared to a .50 bmg barrel.
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Notice the large (and fairly crude) welds on the "barrel" and where it joins the receiver.

its not a real gun barrel, they took some pipe, and welded it to look like a barrel, and stuck a soviet style muzzle brake on one end and an M2 receiver on the other. Added some bits and pieces, to make a wonky looking AA sight, and filmed it.

Or so it looks, to me...
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Old June 12, 2018, 02:16 PM   #15
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I can see the ports on the brake now, lol. Didn’t see them earlier.
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Old June 12, 2018, 03:46 PM   #16
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FWIW the chopper isn't the real thing either... it's an Aérospatiale Puma (French medium transport helicopter) with a red star painted on it to make it look Soviet.

What movie is that? Gotta be something from before the late 90s when genuine Warsaw Pact weaponry and aircraft became available in Hollywood.
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Old June 12, 2018, 05:05 PM   #17
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Its from a movie called the beast of war (1998)
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Old June 12, 2018, 05:46 PM   #18
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Good eye. The nose wheel is too far forward to be a Hip.
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Old June 13, 2018, 08:33 AM   #19
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Here's a link to an actual DShKM muzzle brake.

https://www.ima-usa.com/products/ori...n-muzzle-brake
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Old June 13, 2018, 02:31 PM   #20
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"...The sight is very peculiar..." Anti-aircraft.
DShK 12.5 MG with the sight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DShK#/...th_Dashaka.jpg
.50 BMG.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Bro...-_24th_MEU.jpg
"...Its from a movie..." Probably is a prop gun, but there is Russian kit around.
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Old June 13, 2018, 09:22 PM   #21
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That's from a movie usually referred to as "The Beast", although the full title includes "of War".. I have it on DVD. It's about a Soviet tank crew in Afghanistan. It has one of my all time favorite movie lines that seems to repeatedly apply to so many situations:
"Who are the Nazis now?!"
Or another line that just seems to pop into my head sometimes:
"Tank Boy, you're mine!"
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