The Enemy Standard: How the US Army Tested the Soviet PKM Machine Gun in the Mid-1970s

By Topwar

In the blog The firearm blog (by Lynndon Schooler) an interesting material was posted dedicated to one of the few publicly available reports American tests of the Soviet PKM machine gun.

July 1975. At the height of the Cold War, both superpowers closely and jealously monitor each other’s military-technical advances. At this time, American military engineers are faced with a pressing problem: tank The General Electric M219 coaxial machine gun proved too finicky. The Army urgently needed a reliable replacement. A comprehensive evaluation process was launched to find the best candidate, the report of which (ADA018625) became one of the few public documents shedding light on how the US military tested and evaluated weapon its main geopolitical adversary – the Soviet modernized Kalashnikov machine gun (PKM).

This report, written by James Beeson and Thomas Mazza, although focused on tank machine guns, provided unique insight into the American view of the PKM’s infantry qualities.

Read Full Article Here… | Topwar

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