Posted November 12, 2019 4:24 am by Comments

By Ben Philippi

If you had to pick between the PKM or UKM general-purpose machine gun, which one would you choose?
Former Marine, Andrew Bryant, who currently works as a range safety officer at Battlefield Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, has a lot of experience firing and working on both weapons at the range.
He compared the two side by side and told us which one he liked best.
The PKM general-purpose machine gun. (Photo: Ben Philippi / Guns.com)
The PKM, or the “People Killing Machine” as Bryant jokingly refers to it, is a popular Russian general-purpose machine gun. It entered service in 1961 and in all seriousness actually stands for, Pulemyot Kalashnikova, Modernizirovannyy or “Machine Gun, Kalashnikov’s, Modified.” Variants are still produced and fielded around the world today.
It is a gas-operated, air-cooled weapon that fires the old-school Russian 7.62x54mm round from an open bolt. The rate of fire is between 600 and 750 rounds per minute. It is fed from a non-disintegrating metal belt.
It is renowned for its reliability and is one of the most abundant general-purpose machine guns in the world. What do you expect? Famous AK designer Mikhail Kalashnikov designed it.
The UKM general-purpose machine gun. (Photo: Ben Philippi / Guns.com)
The UKM-2000 is the Polish general-purpose machine

Source: Guns.com

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