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Kord: Russia's New .50 Cal Heavy Machine Gun (Ad-Free)
🕑 Added 2024-06-10 12:00:01 +0000 UTCThe Kord was developed to replace the Soviet NSV heavy machine gun. The NSV was developed in 1969 to replace the DShK, and it was a pretty good gun - but it was manufactured in only one factory and that factory was located in Kazakhstan. When the Soviet Union crumbled, that left the new Russian Federation without and heavy MG production. So, in 1994 a design team at the Kovrov plant developed an improved model of the NSV both to improve it and to provide domestic Russian production. The first prototypes were ready in 1997, initial production began in 1998, and the new gun entered military service in 2001.
Mechanically. the Kord is a long stroke gas piston system with a rotating bolt. It still uses the 12.7x108mm Russian cartridge. The piston and operating rod have elements of PK lineage, and the ejection system is a clever forward-ejecting design that makes the gun easily used in vehicular applications without strewing empty brass around the inside of a tank/AFV/IFV. A hefty muzzle brake, shoulder stock, and neat bipod mounting system make the gun at least plausibly usable in an infantry role.
Many thanks to the IRCGN (Institut de Recherche Criminelle de la Gendarmerie Nationale) for allowing me access to film this hard-to-find modern HMG for you!
Comments
Corentin
"Place des pétards", what a sense of humor they have. For the record, this is a plate made to ressemble a real french street name plate with "Gun Square" written on it.
Forgotten Weapons
No, YouTube just sometimes turns them off without warning.
Mark H. Smith
That looks very robust and appealing as a 12.7mm gun. As noted by others the "lawn-mower" pull start is amazing to me! I was unaware of the Kord as a more modern model. Thanks for the vid.
MrMister
How much vodka was involved in the meeting that decided that monster needed a shoulder stock and pistol grip? All of it.
Mrgunsngear
Best video I've ever seen on the Kord. Thanks.
Guy Mendes
Most definitely, leaving the comments on is just a call for people to be mindlessly aggressive against anything involving Russia.
David T Klein
With the Soviet 12.7mm being much higher pressure and rougher recoil than the .50 Browning, how much rubber and leather has to go on the shoulder-stock to make this tame enough to shoot without bruising your shoulder?
David T Klein
Putting the charging handle and the trigger in the mount and making one gun snap into any number of mounts is actually kinda brilliant. Also, pleasant surprise how they made the mount with that huge tripod and trigger and charging handle and shoulder-stock fold up to be so compact (relatively) and self-contained. If there was a way to get one of those to here without it enriching the Kremlin's war-machine to beat-up on Ukraine, I would want one like a wanting-thing.
Glenn Miller
Thanks. What a beast of a firearm. Love the lawn mower pull start.
Claus
Love the fact, that it is in a heavy used state after 'field repair'. Adds evidence, why it is made the way it is.
Christian
I assume comments are off, because of the current conflict?
Guido Schriewer
buffer or not. shot 50 from a "smaller" bipod? that is not constant recoil, is it? and who should carry that beast?
Kerwin Kerr
Do the Russians make a .50 BMG Kord variant for export? Also, I noticed from your video that Kord's main receiver parts were made of stamped steel.
