Posted October 25, 2024 8:00 pm by Comments

By Vladimir Onokoy

Recently I wrote a series of articles about the history of Kalashnikov GPMGs: PK and PKM. However, the history of this machine gun is not limited to the Soviet Union. Different versions of it are still produced in different countries: Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Sudan, China, Ukraine, Romania, North Korea and Vietnam.To me, the most interesting version of PKM is Yugoslavian/Serbian M84. Its history, operational use, and lore are truly unique. James Reeves already did a video about this topic, but I figured I could add a few more interesting details to this story.How did PKM come to Yugoslavia?If you do an internet search about M84, you might be surprised. There will be tons of photos of the Yugoslavian main battle tank M84. M84 is essentially a Soviet T-72 tank that was license-produced in Yugoslavia. The project for the production of this tank was called “Kapela”.

The modern version of the M84 tank. Source – Ministry of Defense of Serbia

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Source: The Firearm Blog

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