RPD

Factions	Weapon	Icon	Classes	Ammo
Factions	Weapon	Icon	Classes	Ammo	VC	RPD		Gunner	100 / 200

Damage Base	Headshot ×	Chest ×	Stomach ×	Leg ×	Arm ×	Bayonet	Rifle Grenades	Reload Speed
Damage Base	Headshot ×	Chest ×	Stomach ×	Leg ×	Arm ×	Bayonet	Rifle Grenades	Partial	Empty
42	×2.3 = 96.6	×1 = 42	×0.95 = 39.9	×0.6 = 25.2	×0.55 = 23.1	NO	NO	5.5 Seconds	6.2 Seconds

Designation	Weapon Type	Fire Modes	Fire Rate	Bullet Spread °	Bipod Bullet Spread °	Range Modifier	Muzzle Velocity	Projectile weight	Weight
Designation	Weapon Type	Fire Modes	Fire Rate	RPD	LMG	Auto	700 RPM	9.23° & 2.42° ADS	2.19° & 0.7° ADS	0.925	735 m/s	7.9g (121.9 gr)	7.4 kg (16.3 lbs)

Full name	Caliber	Place of Origin	Date	Manufacturer	Barrel Length	Total Length	Weapon Script Name
Full name	Caliber	Place of Origin	Date	Manufacturer	Barrel Length	Total Length	Weapon Script Name	ручной пулемёт Дегтярёва	7.62x39mm	Soviet Union	1944	State Factories	20.5 in (520 mm)	40.8 in (1,037 mm)	weapon_rpd

The RPD is a Soviet light machine gun chambered in 7.62×39mm (M43), developed as a belt-fed squad automatic weapon for the intermediate cartridge. It feeds from non-disintegrating belts carried in a distinctive drum container and is optimized for mobile infantry support fire. The RPD is best known for bridging the gap between earlier magazine-fed light machine guns and later squad automatic weapons within the Kalashnikov-era small-arms family.

HISTORY

Development of the RPD began during World War II as the Soviet Union moved toward an intermediate cartridge to modernize infantry firepower. Several designers submitted prototypes, and Vasily Degtyaryov’s design was selected and refined into the RPD (Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova). Although late-war prototypes existed, the weapon was adopted after the war and entered wider production and distribution in the early 1950s, providing squads with sustained automatic fire in the new 7.62×39mm chambering.

During the Vietnam War, the RPD and especially Chinese-produced copies were widely fielded by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Việt Cộng as a standard light machine gun. Its combination of controllable automatic fire, belt-fed endurance, and relatively compact handling suited ambushes and small-unit actions in dense terrain. Over time it was supplemented and increasingly replaced in some roles by newer designs such as the RPK and later general-purpose machine guns, but it remained a common and recognizable weapon in the conflict.