DShK Machinegun
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DShK Machinegun

Heavy Machinegun
Weapon 🔪 Heavy Machinegun ⚡ Foreign Design 📦

The DShK is a Soviet heavy machine gun that was designed by Vasily Degtyaryov and Georgi Shpagin in 1938. It fires the 12.7×108mm cartridge, which has a high muzzle velocity and can penetrate lightly armoured targets. The DShK is used as an anti-tank, anti-aircraft, and anti-materiel weapon in various wars, such as World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and various colonial conflicts. It has a gas-operated, flapper locking action and a butterfly trigger, with a rate of fire of 600 RPM. The DShK has a V-shaped sight for aiming at aircraft and a spider web sight for ground targets. Within the USSR and its sphere of influence, it is commonly nicknamed the "Dushka" (a dear or beloved person). In many ways it can be thought of as the eastern version of the Browning M2, serving in the same roles and with the same ubiquitousness.

Abilities

Common Attributes - Mechanical

Auto

This weapon is fully automatic, either inherently so or by the presence of a selective-fire mechanism.

EFFECT:
This weapon can fire more than one shot each time it is used. Each subsequent shot has a progressive penalty.
Automatic weapons are considered STABLE when they're mounted on a vehicle, tripod or turret. This is different from the Stabilised SA.

  • Point Blank Range - No penalty.
  • Close Range (≤10m / 2sq) -> -1
  • Short Range (≤50m / 5sq) -> -2 (STABLE: -1)
  • Average Range (≤200m / 10sq) -> -3 (STABLE: -1)
  • Medium Range (≤500m / 20sq) -> -5 (STABLE: -1)
  • Long Range (≤1000m / 50sq) -> -5 (STABLE: -3)

         ~ Beyond this point, automatic fire is unfeasible without a STABLE firing platform. ~

  • Very Long Range (≤2000m) -> (STABLE: -3)
  • Extreme Range (>2000m) -> (STABLE: -5)

Belt-Fed

EFFECT:
This weapon is not fed from fixed capacity magazines, but from belts which can be made as long or short as needed.
Most machinegun belts contain 50, 100, 200 or 250 rounds. Some vehicle belts, however, can be way longer.

Unless specified otherwise, assume all small arms belts to be of 100 rounds.

Common Attributes - National

Urrah! - Soviet Small Arms (WW2)

Soviet small arms before the Cold War focused largely on their capability to be mass-produced with few concerns about precision machining. However, this meant that the Red Army could field enormous armies from every corner of the world and in any corner of the world. Field manuals, spare parts and gunsmiths with experience in these weapons are very easy to find. 


EFFECT:
When performing any skill check regarding production, modification, repair or maintenance of this weapon, add an Easy DM.

Unique Attributes

Close Protection - DShK & NSV UA

Although the DShK has been used in a very wide variety of roles, it is most famous as the anti-air weapon of choice for Soviet tanks throughout the Cold War. Its successor, the NSV, enjoyed much of the same fame.

EFFECT:
This weapon gains an Easy DM when targeting any Aerial Vehicle 🛩️.

Attributes

Unorganized
TYPE
Heavy Machinegun
TECH
World Wars
WGHT
34kg
AMMO
Belt-Fed
CAL
12.7x108mm
RNG
Very Long
DMG
3d20 | Auto
PEN
3
SPC
Urrah!, Close Protection