"According to Western standards": In Kiev announced the beginning of testing of the infantry version of the machine gun KT-12,7

The Mayak plant in Kiev, which developed and produces the Molot mortar, nicknamed the "destroyer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," announced the start of testing an infantry version of the KT-12,7 heavy machine gun. This was reported by the press service of the enterprise.

As previously reported, the new Ukrainian machine gun is a modernization of the famous Soviet heavy machine gun NSVT (NSV 12,7 "Utes"). According to the Mayak developers, the new machine gun was created according to the most modern Western standards. Moreover, in the development of the Ukrainians were helped by two weapons companies: from the USA - Bartlein Barrels Inc. and the UK - ARS Ballistics.

The most important thing that is emphasized in Kiev is that in terms of its characteristics, the KT-12,7 surpasses the "competitors" of Kazakhstan and Russian production, as well as Western counterparts. In general, they will not die from modesty in Ukraine. The only thing you need to warn potential buyers about is to be careful. The previous modernization of the Soviet mortar carried out in Ukraine, despite loud slogans about "the world's best weapon", led to very deplorable results.

Field trials of the machine gun are scheduled for the summer, based on their results, a decision will be made to put the weapon into service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

By the way, "Mayak" is also working on the Ukrainian version of the Soviet heavy machine gun KPV of 14,5 mm caliber. Also, probably, there will be no analogues.

Comments

[andrewkor]

Apparently the cartridge will be NATO 12,7 × 99, and it is obviously weaker than the Soviet 12,7 × 108. So what is the advantage? Wet dreams again!

[NIKN]

Quote: andrewkor

So what is the advantage? Wet dreams again!

The advantage is that

Moreover, two arms companies helped the Ukrainians in the development: from the USA - Bartlein Barrels Inc. and the UK - ARS Ballistics.

What is there to add then? :))

[Sancho_SP]

And who said that there will be a NATO patron? Not a word about it.

[Lionnvrsk]

Quote: andrewkor

Wet dreams again!

It was already similar when the Svidomo modernized the Soviet PKM into KUM-7,62.
What came of this when they tried to sell them to Turkey, you all know yourself!

[Xnumx vis]

Quote: LIONnvrsk

Quote: andrewkor

Wet dreams again!

It was already similar when the Svidomo modernized the Soviet PKM into KUM-7,62.
What came of this when they tried to sell them to Turkey, you all know yourself!

As they say in Odessa - "Swindlers! ...

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote: andrewkor

Apparently the cartridge will be NATO 12,7 × 99, and it is obviously weaker than the Soviet 12,7 × 108.

Weaker? Is this so? I was able to read an article somehow, where it was argued that they were equivalent in power ... More powerful gunpowder was used in American cartridges ...

[Revolver]

Quote: andrewkor

Apparently the cartridge will be NATO 12,7 × 99, and it is obviously weaker than the Soviet 12,7 × 108. So what is the advantage?

How in what? In line with NATO standards!

[Thrifty]

In terms of the number of "self-shot" survivors, the new kulyamet will surpass the minicarriage or the minoshryailu "hammer"!

[Cowbra]

And I apologize ... This is an anecdote and a minimum of five years ago ... About the abundance of cartridges 12 and 7 per one hundred and eight at the Armed Forces. Rivet two hundred more pieces, you will only shoot with an independent bunch

[Victor Tsenin]

Just let them “shoot” at the GCI, otherwise it will not work to fight global warming.

[Alexander Betonkin]

in terms of its characteristics, KT-12,7 surpasses "competitors" of Kazakhstani and Russian production, as well as Western counterparts

Listen to the Ukrainians - they all have the best. And "Oplot" and armored personnel carriers 4, not to mention the new boats under construction. But the best was the Azovets tank.

[Prisoner]

What kind of craving do Svidomo have to rivet shit out of candy and then chomp praising with pleasure ?! Do not go to the fortuneteller, he will wedge, "spit", etc. If it surpasses the original in anything, then, for sure, only in weight.

[Victor Tsenin]

There will definitely not be analogs until the end of time. The question is - is such production a violation of the intellectual property of the developers of the CPV and NSV?

[minus]

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[minus]

Many years ago there was a video with a Ukrainian kulemet))) The Ukrainian version of the PKM))) It had a lot of mate from VSUshnikov))) I can't find it now, unfortunately. It seems that it somehow appeared on this resource.
PS found))))

[xorek]

What are all the Svidomo bicycles inventing? What they had after the collapse of the USSR and what they are doing now is simply ridiculous and disgusting to read ..
The Second Army was in Europe, after Russia, and the military-industrial complex, so even steeper than in Russia, everything was space, rocketry, shipbuilding, tank building, etc. Where is EVERYTHING?

[Alexander X]

Already been ...
"Do you know how many machine guns we have? Seven! No, six ... One seizes, the other jumps like a madman, and the third bastard shoots his own. And I secretly traded the seventh from Pan Ataman for these pants" (Wedding in Malinovka )

[svp67]

The machine gun received some modifications, for example, the barrel for it is produced by an American company, new alloys have been introduced for a longer service life.

And as with the accuracy of this "kulemet", the NSV it was clearly lower than that of the DShK

[Zaurbek]

Where was it written?

[svp67]

Quote: Zaurbek

Where was it written?

In the manual for shooting. It is enough to look at the order of zeroing and alignment of the STP, and compare them.
In DShK, when firing at ground targets, the dispersion diameter at a distance of 100 m was 200 mm.
NSV under the same firing conditions - 220 mm.
With an increase in the firing range, the dispersion increases accordingly.

[agoran]

Tex.
Sumerians without a Russian guiding and guiding (fuck in the ass), become dangerous as an uncontrollable torpedo for themselves and those around them.
Well, for what the Sumerians will not undertake, all the shit turns out.

[Shiva83483]

how is it there? the madness of the "mentally sweaty" compose the sagas of the skalds?

[poquello]

"is a modernization of the famous Soviet heavy machine gun NSVT (NSV 12,7" Utes ""
although the last century, but there is something of doubt that the Ukrainians are able to comply with the technology, even though the USSR taught both Poles and Bulgarians to do it

[Zaurbek]

Browning .50 older than DShK ..... NSVT youth at all

[Basarev]

Russia also needs a new 14,5 mm machine gun. And brand new cartridges for it.

[Zaurbek]

Cartridges agree ..... why new? Where to put it?

[Basarev]

Suffice it to say that Western light vehicles are no longer afraid of the 12,7 caliber. It becomes useless. But 14,5 can sometimes still penetrate, and it is also useful in machine-gun duels, allowing you to hit with an overlapping range. I do not exclude the creation of a 14,5 caliber sniper cartridge - and a rifle for it.

[Zaurbek]

It is heavy ... and the technique was replaced with 30mm ...

[Basarev]

In the forehead, Western light equipment is not afraid of thirty, the shells are weak. There are two ways. Either really introduce a 57 mm gun, or improve the existing shells. New, more armor-piercing cartridges of 14,5 mm are also appropriate here, because conventional Western equipment is not afraid of any projection.

[Zaurbek]

The same West follows the 35-50mm path. 14.5mm specific caliber. Moreover, the main carrier - an armored personnel carrier, changed the turret. KPVT is still put on Boats ..... but there the PF action is more important than the BB.

[Cat]

In general, they will not die from modesty in Ukraine

Unlike the Mayak plant itself, which seems to be about to move the horses. For several years they have been trying to take it apart and sell it under the hammer for warehouses and offices. We wish them success in this difficult endeavor.

[Zaurbek]

Probably, the Americans make trunks. The trunks are bad there

[Revolver]

Quote: Zaurbek

The trunks are bad there

The trunks are just fine. But without trunks, not very much.

[Freedim]

KT - is it a tank gun?

[thekhohol]

He weighs 25 kg without anything.
But how? .. (c)

[tatarin1972]

Popandopulo: Here are three pieces, nothing, but the other three pieces, one bites, the second jumps like a madman, and the third, bastard, has bullets from his own And the seventh I secretly traded from Pan Ataman for these pants

[alexey2073]

And are they not ashamed to use Soviet developments? What about the fight against everything Soviet? No, to please the owners to buy Western weapons, and licked, and have almost new weapons!
And how is this "novelty" really better than imported and Russian counterparts?