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Type Light machine gunSquad automatic weapon Wars 1948 Arab–Israeli WarVietnam WarLaotian Civil WarSuez CrisisSino-Indian WarCambodian Civil WarSix-Day WarIndonesian invasion of East TimorYom Kippur WarCambodian–Vietnamese WarSino-Vietnamese WarSouth African Border WarSoviet War in AfghanistanIran–Iraq War1982 Lebanon WarGulf WarYugoslav WarsRwandan Civil WarWar in AfghanistanIraq WarThai–Laotian Border WarCambodian–Thai border stand-offLibyan Civil WarSyrian civil warother various conflicts in Africa and Asia | ||
The RPD (Russian: ручной пулемёт Дегтярёва Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova, English: Degtyaryov hand-held machine gun) is a 7.62mm light machine gun developed in the Soviet Union by Vasily Degtyaryov for the intermediate 7.62×39mm M43 cartridge. It was created as a replacement for the DP machine gun chambered for the