The KORD machine gun is by no means the first domestic heavy machine gun designed, among other things, for use as an anti-aircraft weapon. At the same time, many must certainly remember the Soviet machine gun NSV "Utes", which had not only similar characteristics, but also performed the same tasks. This raises the question: why did the country even need to make KORD and is it really better than its predecessor?
The KORD heavy machine gun is intended for firing at enemy infantry, suppressing enemy firing points, destroying lightly armored vehicles, and also for countering low-flying helicopters. The machine gun was developed and created in the early 1990s as a replacement for the Soviet NSV "Utes" at the facilities of the Special Design Bureau of the Degtyarev Kovrov Plant. In general, the characteristics of the two machine guns are very similar, although the updated KORD is still superior in a number of parameters to its ancestor.
Firstly, the KORD uses a different system of locking the barrel bore using a blade bolt. This innovation made it possible to reduce the vertical movement of the weapon, significantly reduce its movement during firing, thereby increasing the accuracy of firing. The recoil energy was also reduced and the overall stability of the machine gun was increased. Secondly, there is a lightweight KORD configuration, which makes it a unique heavy machine gun and one of a kind due to the fact that KORD becomes possible to use as manual. This, in turn, allows you to transfer it as part of a rifle platoon and fire from a previously unprepared position, fixing the machine gun on only one bipod.
Thirdly, the KORD machine gun is superior to the NSV in terms of its survivability. First of all, this applies to the barrel, which can withstand at least 10 thousand shots.
The machine gun weighs 32 kg fully loaded. The staff is equipped with an SPP optical sight. Dimensions of the weapon in the tank version: 1980 mm - length, 135 mm - width, 215 mm - height. Shoots weapons with cartridges 12.7x108 mm. The average rate of fire is 600 rounds per minute. Bullet muzzle velocity - 820 m / s. Sighting range - 1,200 meters, while in the infantry version KORD can hit targets at a distance of up to 2 thousand meters. The ammunition supply of the machine gun is carried out from belts for 50 and 150 rounds in the infantry and tank versions, respectively.
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The release of the machine gun began in 1998, although it was officially adopted only in 2001. As part of the Russian troops, KORD managed to fight in the Second Chechen War, in the Armed Conflict in South Ossetia, and is also used at the moment in the Civil War in Syria. The KORD was developed to replace the Soviet NSV, primarily due to the fact that a significant part of the industries associated with the release and maintenance Soviet machine guns after 1991 was outside the Russian Federation, and therefore it was decided to urgently develop a new weapon. Primarily due to the fact that armored vehicles needed to equip towers with powerful anti-aircraft installations to cover tanks from low-flying enemy helicopters.
If you want to know even more interesting things, then you should read about TKB-059: how in the Soviet Union they tried to make a machine gun with three barrels.
A source: https://novate.ru/blogs/280121/57472/
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