Garanin general-purpose machine guns
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Garanin general-purpose machine guns
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The Garanin machine guns were a series of general-purpose machine gun prototypes developed by Soviet designer Georgy Semenovich Garanin at OKB-575 in Kovrov. These guns were developed in the context of a contest, started in December 1955, for replacing the company-level RP-46 light machine gun and the battalion-level "heavy" machine gun SGM with a single new machine gun that could fulfill both roles using different mounts. Garanin's first prototype for this competition operated on the principle
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General-purpose machine gun
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2023-07-12T06:00:33Z
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