If the stamped serial number, with the accompanying dent, is any indication of their workmanship, I'd say the gunners are going to spend most of their time dealing with jams and failure-to-feed issues.
Watch for them to try it out with the next execution.
Fat boy will put these to use in his next internal purge.
Looks like a WW II Imperial Army MG.
I guess there is no cncern with accuracy, the 30 round magazine is in your field of view. It says you spray and pray the first 30 rounds, go prone and switch to belt feed. It weights like 30 pounds, who is carrying ammo belts?
heavy and complicated was the downfall of the german Tiger tank in WWII.....just sayin’.
Looks like Kim has gone all Steampunk there.
Sort of odd the Norks would use the 7.64*54R for the “light” machine gun since their standard infantry weapon is a variant of the AK-47 using the 7.62*39. Usually most armies field a squad assault weapon using the same caliber as the infantry assault rifles to simplify logistics.
I just happened to get out and shoot my Mosin–Nagant 91/30 about a month ago.
It reminded me why I don’t shoot it more often.
It went back into the safe along with 500 rounds for SHTF.
My dad ran over thousands of these on his way to the Yalu river in his M-48.
The real beauty of 7.62x54R has been the availability of massive quantities of super cheap surplus sealed spam cans full of it. A few years ago most of them were from the 1980s. A can with 440 cartridges was typically around $80 or less. I just checked at all the places we used to buy them and those deals seem to be long gone.
We have got quite a bit of boxer primed brass in 7.62x54R that I under-charge or use Red Dot powder in. They last a long time when used that way and we can shoot unjacketed heat treated cast bullets that I make myself. Momma and the kids like them because they kick less because of the reduced velocities.
If the stamped serial number, with the accompanying dent, is any indication of their workmanship, I'd say the gunners are going to spend most of their time dealing with jams and failure-to-feed issues.
In the ammo world, “light” and “heavy” refer to the cartridge used, not the weight of the gun firing it.
7.62x54 is a full-sized .30 caliber cartridge, roughly half-way between the .308 and the .30-’06 in terms of muzzle energy. For a machine gun, that is a “light” cartridge. OTOH, a .50 BMG-class cartridge would be considered “heavy.”
That all said, I hope that the gun itself is extremely heavy, prone to jamming, and not durable.
pretty fancy for a boat anchorLooks like a piece of crap.