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12.7x108

SAA  
Azerbaijan
China
Romania
Russian Federation
Ukraine

The 12.7×108 is a Soviet-era-developed, Russian Federation, rimless bottleneck heavy machine gun (HMG) cartridge, which is thought to have been developed during the 1920s and adopted in 1930 for use with the short-lived DK (ДК) HMG. The DK would later be replaced by the far longer-lived DShK (ДШК) HMG that was adopted in 1938. Since the introduction of the DShK, the round has been used by many later weapons and has seen action in most 20th and...

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Years of manufacture (91)

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Found in 21 countries

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