This is a DSHK .50" (roughly) caliber heavy machine gun, converted to an infantry support weapon. Typically these guns are mounted to a tripod or vehicle, but Ukraine has been converting these to infantry support weapons by adding a bipod, carry handle, shoulder stock, gigantic muzzle break(to make recoil bearable), new handle and new trigger assembly.
For anyone wondering, a DSHK heavy machine gun is 34kg or 75 pounds.
Here’s a video that discusses it in detail, and covers similar american prototype conversions with their equivalent heavy machine, the M2 Browning (38kg, 84lbs).
https://youtu.be/fd98XcRm0bM?si=MebMTYuxTRKu2cHVWhen you treat Commando as a military training manual instead of an LGBT break-up story.
Ukrainian gunsmithing is wild.
This one and the 2-mile sniper:
Hey, he’s got Hi-Tops on, at least. Keep that ankle stiff if he rolls it bustin’ a sick trick.
What the hell is that gun?
Edit: Jesus christ what have they done to that fuckin DSHK lmao
I found it here:
Ukrainian soldier with a 12.7 mm large-caliber DShKM-TK machine gun. https://www.instagram.com/p/DAneN6fovKn/?igsh=ZHljcGhxazVuc3Rl
Cool, thank you. Good to know what they call the thing.
His is automatic, so the Ukrainian in the picture could kill a family of buildings.
A whole school of schools!
Oi, that’s some proppa umie dakka! Waaagh!
That rifle looks longer than he is tall