Georgy Shpagin
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Georgy Semyonovich Shpagin was a Soviet weapons designer. He is best-known as the creator of the PPSh-41, a submachine gun that saw widespread use by the Red Army on the Eastern Front. He also worked
Shpagin in February 1945
DShK
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The DShK M1938 is a Soviet heavy machine gun. The weapon may be vehicle mounted or used on a tripod or wheeled carriage as a heavy infantry machine gun. The DShK's name is derived from its original de
Georgy Shpagin
…submachine gun that saw widespread use by the Red Army on the Eastern Front. He also worked with fellow Soviet weapons designer Vasily Degtyaryov on the DShK, a heavy machine gun, shortly before the start of World War II. Shpagin was born on 17 April 1897 to a Russian peasant family in Klyushnikovo, close…
Albanian "DShKM" (local version) used for anti-aircraft purposes
The DShK M1938 in the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps, Saint Petersburg
A Soviet G-5-class motor torpedo boat armed with the DShK machine gun on the MTU-2 ring mount, 1944
The DShK anti-aircraft machine guns mounted on the Soviet armoured train Zhelezniakov, May 1942