The Probert Encyclopaedia of Warfare

KPV

The KPV is a Soviet 14.5 mm gas-assisted short recoil super-heavy machine-gun developed after the Second World War by the Russians to fire high-velocity anti-tank rounds. The KPV is belt fed and has a cyclic rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute and a muzzle velocity of 1000 meters per second. The KPV has a 1346 mm long barrel and is fitted with a cylindrical post foresight and a tangent leaf U rearsight. The KPV machine-gun is usually mounted on a towed carriage, either in a single, pair or quadruple arrangement, the mountings being known as a ZPU-1, ZPU-2 or ZPU-4 respectively.
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