7.62 mm Degtyarev light machine gun is the most powerful automatic weapon of the rifle squad. It is designed to destroy manpower and destroy enemy fire weapons. For firing from a machine gun, cartridges arr. 1943 with ordinary (with a steel core), tracer, armor-piercing incendiary and incendiary bullets. Fire from a machine gun is carried out in bursts - short (up to 5 shots), long (up to 15 shots in a queue) and continuous.