RPD

"The RPD is an open-bolt light machine gun dating back to the end of the Second World War as a replacement for the DP machine gun. It has seen wide export to many former Warsaw Pact nations and current day conflict zones."

- In-game description

The  is a light machine gun featured in Squad.

General Information

 * The RPD is a Soviet machine gun designed by Vasily Degtyaryov from 1943 to 1944 and produced by the Degtyaryov Plant from 1944 to 1960. A precursor to most squad automatic weapons, the RPD was originally created as a lighter and more wieldy replacement for the DP machine gun.

Trivia

 * RPD stands for Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova (Ручной Пулемёт Дегтярёва), which means in English from Russian Degtyaryov hand-held machine gun.