Nearly 85 years ago, Vasily Degtyaryov designed a radically new light machine gun for the Soviet Military. Called the DP-28 (Degtyaryov Pulemyot 1928), pulemyot being Russian for “machine gun,” the gun operated via a long-stroke piston and employed a unique locking system using a short bolt group.
Composed of two pivoting lugs, or wing-like flaps on the sides of the bolt body, the rear portion of the top-mounted operating rod acted on the bolt carrier to not only move the bolt to and fro, but also to unlock and lock the bolt’s lugs from their recesses in the sides of the …read more
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