That gun looks familiar…
Oh yeah!
This is a DSHK .50" (roughly) caliber heavy machine gun, converted to an infantry support weapon. Typically these guns are mounted to a tripod or vehicle, but Ukraine has been converting these to infantry support weapons by adding a bipod, carry handle, shoulder stock, gigantic muzzle break(to make recoil bearable), new handle and new trigger assembly.
For anyone wondering, a DSHK heavy machine gun is 34kg or 75 pounds.
Here’s a video that discusses it in detail, and covers similar american prototype conversions with their equivalent heavy machine, the M2 Browning (38kg, 84lbs).
https://youtu.be/fd98XcRm0bM?si=MebMTYuxTRKu2cHVWhen you treat Commando as a military training manual instead of an LGBT break-up story.
Ukrainian gunsmithing is wild.
This one and the 2-mile sniper:
Hey, he’s got Hi-Tops on, at least. Keep that ankle stiff if he rolls it bustin’ a sick trick.
What the hell is that gun?
Edit: Jesus christ what have they done to that fuckin DSHK lmao
Here’s video of that thing getting fired for any other noncredible gun nerds.
His is automatic, so the Ukrainian in the picture could kill a family of buildings.
A whole school of schools!
I found it here:
Ukrainian soldier with a 12.7 mm large-caliber DShKM-TK machine gun. https://www.instagram.com/p/DAneN6fovKn/?igsh=ZHljcGhxazVuc3Rl
Cool, thank you. Good to know what they call the thing.
That rifle looks longer than he is tall
Oi, that’s some proppa umie dakka! Waaagh!