NSV 12,7mm HMG
From The D Archives
Jääkäriprikaatin yksiköillä olevia ilmantorjuntakonekiväärejä, jotka ovat ajoneuvoihin asennettuja ja käytettävissä myös maajalustalta, käytetään prikaatin joukkojen omakohtaiseen ilmatorjuntaan. Tilanteen salliessa voidaan aseita käyttää myös suora-ammuntaan joukkojen tulitukiosastoissa.
12,7 mm:n ilmantorjuntakonekivääri (NSV-12,7) on tehokas sarjatuliase, joka on suunniteltu käytettäväksi ilmamaalien tuhoamiseen, sekä vihollisen kevyesti panssaroituja ajoneuvoja, tuliasemia ja elävää voimaa vastaan.
Specifications
Caliber: 12,7x109 mm
Weight: 25 kg gun body, 41 kg on tripod 6T7 with 50 rounds of ammo
Length: 1560 mm (1900 mm on 6T7 tripod)
Length of barrel: 1346 mm
Feeding: belt 50 rounds
Rate of fire: 700-800 rounds/min
Personal notes
Disassembling and assembling one of these is a rather shitty operation. Especially when the instructors are giving you a time limit in which one has to succeed in both operations.
I shot these things twice. The first time everything went well, but the second time due to early spring being rather dry, many of us managed to cause wildfires while firing this thing into a designated "target bush". Naturally the powerful tracer ammunition travelled way faster to just stop on the bushes, and continued all the way to a large brush of trees and even beyond. Not that anyone of us really gave a shit about the wildfires with the instructors yelling at us 24/7, but when they ordered us to go and try to extinquish the flames that they had themselves caused through us by ordering the test-shootouts of those machineguns, it kinda started to feel like we were covering for their mistakes. And you know, we sure fucking were covering for their mistakes too - since I heard that you're not supposed to be firing a 12,7mm in that shooting range at all. Instead all firings with this thing were supposed to be located at the Rovajärvi shooting range in Lapland. Why we fired these things so close to population centers - I don't know. But it sure was a pain in the ass to fight the fires afterwards.
