PKM Machine Gun

A Russian PKM Machine Gun

* PKB - a variant of the PK that has been designed for use as a pintle mounted machine gun on combat vehicles.
* PKT - It is a solenoid-fired coaxial version of PK for vehicle mounting.
* PKM - The PKM is a modernised, product-improved version of the PK.
	+ PKMN - The night-fighting variant of the PKMN, can be mount with a Night Sight for low-visibility.
	+ PKMS - A variant made for the mounted on the Stepanov 6T5 tripod mount for heavy deployment.
	+ PKMSN - It is a special model of the tripod-mounted variant for the PKMS.
	+ PKTM - Modernised version of the PKT.
	+ PKBM - Modernised version of the PKB.
* PKP Pecheneg - It is a further development and modification of the PKM. It has a heavy fixed barrel encased in a radial cooling sleeve that uses forced-air cooling, much like the Lewis Gun of World War I, introduced in 2001.

-Foreign copies/variants

* HCP PKM-NATO prototype and UKM-2000 (Poland) - The Polish 7.62x51mm NATO variant.
* Zastava M84/M86/M09/M10 (Yugoslavia/Serbia) - Yugoslav/Serbian-made licensed copy of the PK/PKS.
* Norinco Type 80 (People's Republic of China) - The Chinese-made copy of the PKM/PKMS, made after Sino-Soviet border conflict.
* Arsenal MG, MG-M1, MG-M1S, MG-1M, MG-M2, and MG-M2S (Bulgaria) - Arsenal-produced machine guns in Bulgaria.
* Cugir Mitraliera md. 66 (Romania) - Romanian-made copy of the PKM.
* Mayak KM-7.62, KT-7.62 and KTM-7.62 (Ukraine) - The Ukrainian copy of the PKM, made to be lighter and easier to handle.

## Technical specifications

### Magazine Size

Non-disintegrating metal link 50-round belts in 100 and 200 or 250-round ammunition boxes

## Usage

### Wars

see: PKM Machine Gun* Ogaden war (1977-1978)
* Vietnam War (1955–1975)
* Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)
* Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989)
* Afghan Civil War (1989-1992)
* Gulf War (1990–1991)
* Clone Wars (1991-1994)
* First War in Afghanistan (1997)
* War on Terror
* Second War in Afghanistan (2001)
* Iraqi Insurgency
* First Galactic Civil War
* War on ISIS
* Second Galactic Civil War

### Counterpart(s)

* M429 SAW
* IWI Negev

### Affiliation

* Terran Alliance
* Rebel Alliance
* New Republic

### Used by

-Terran Alliance* Belarus
* Ukraine
* USSR/Russia
* China
* Other Terran Alliance member states, see: PK Machine Gun users on Wikipedia.

-Andromeda Galaxy

* Rebel Alliance
	+ Alliance Military
* New Republic
	+ NRDF

The **PK** (Russian: Пулемёт Калашникова, transliterated as *Pulemyot Kalashnikova*, or "Kalashnikov's machine gun") also known as the **PKM** and **PKP Pecheneg**, is a 7.62×54mmR general-purpose machine gun designed in the Soviet Union and currently in production in Russia. The original PK machine gun was introduced in 1961 and then the improved PKM in 1969 to replace the SGM and RP-46 machine guns in Soviet service. It remains in use as a front-line infantry and vehicle-mounted weapon with Russia's armed forces. The PK has been exported extensively and produced in several other countries under license.

The PKs and PKMs are widely used by the USSR and it's allies in the Terran campaign of the Clone Wars, every Machine gunners use both Repeating blaster and Conventional variant of the Machine gun itself against the CIS Droid armies, it also fought extensively in every battles of of the Clone Wars across the Andromeda Galaxy. After the Clone Wars, the Russian company Degtyaryov plant ordered the mass-production of the PK Machine guns including the PKMs during the Intergalactic Cold War and many countries of the Terran Alliance purchased many of these Machine guns as their Squad-Automatic Weapons. In 2013 the Russian government provided many PKMs to the members of the Rebel Alliance on behalf of the Terran Forces prior to it's entry in the First Galactic Civil War and later when Russia joins the war, many Russian Machine-Gunners are all equipped with PKMs and RPK-74Ms as their SAW weapons until the end of the War.

## Gallery

A modernized PKM Machine Gun.A Russian Army soldier armed with a PKM during 2013 Galactic Civil War.A member of Terran Liberation Militia armed with a PKM machine gun.A Rebel fighter with a PKM.