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== Description ==
 
== Description ==
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The '''7.62 mm PV-1''' (''Pulemot Vozdushnyy'' pervyy or ''Air Machine Gun the first'') is a 7.62 mm calibre machine gun which was first produced in 1926 for usage in Soviet aircraft. Mass production began in 1927 up to 1940. Later it was replaced by ShKAS.
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PV-1 is a modification of Maxim gun which is compatible for aviation.
  
 
=== Vehicles equipped with this weapon ===
 
=== Vehicles equipped with this weapon ===
 
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* {{Specs-Link|i-15_1935_moscow}}
 
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* {{Specs-Link|i-15bis_krasnolutsky}}
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* {{Specs-Link|i-16_chung_28}}
  
 
== General info ==
 
== General info ==
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PV-1 has almost the lowest fire rate (750 RPM) being higher only than Japanese [[Type 92 navy (7.7 mm)]]. Aside from the default ball and plain tracer rounds, the PV-1's common round composition involves the API-T, API, and AI rounds. In game API and API-T bullets deal more damage at low distances, while AI bullet has less damage reduction, so it has more damage than API or API-T bullet in a distance higher than 500 m.
  
 
=== Available ammunition ===
 
=== Available ammunition ===
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=== Comparison with analogues ===
 
=== Comparison with analogues ===
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{| class="wikitable"
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|+Comparable machine guns to PV-1 (7.62 mm)
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!Country
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!Name
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!Year  of Creation
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!Mass (kg)
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!Rounds Per Minute
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!Ammunition
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|-
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| [[File:USA_flag.png|20px|link=]]
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|[[Browning (7.62 mm)]]
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|1919
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|14
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|1000
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|7.62 × 63 mm
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|-
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| [[File:Germany_flag.png|20px|link=]]
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|[[MG 17 (7.92 mm)]]
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|1934
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|10.2
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|1150
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|7.92 × 57 mm
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|-
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| [[File:Germany_flag.png|20px|link=]]
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|[[MG 15 (7.92 mm)]]
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|1932
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|12.4
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|1150
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|7.92 × 57 mm
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|-
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| [[File:Britain_flag.png|20px|link=]]
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|[[Vickers K (7.7 mm)]]
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|1935
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|13.4
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|950
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|7.7 × 56 mm R
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|-
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| [[File:Japan_flag.png|20px|link=]]
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|[[Type 1 (7.92 mm)]]
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|1932
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|12.8
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|1150
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|7.92 × 57 mm
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|-
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| [[File:Japan_flag.png|20px|link=]]
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|[[Type 92 navy (7.7 mm)]]
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|1932
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|8
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|600
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|7.7 × 56 mm R
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|-
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| [[File:Japan_flag.png|20px|link=]]
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|[[Type 98 (7.92 mm)]]
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|1932
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|12.8
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|1150
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|7.92 × 57 mm
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|-
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| [[File:Japan_flag.png|20px|link=]]
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|[[Lewis (7.7 mm)]]
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|1911
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|13
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|900
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|7.7 × 56 mm R
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|-
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| [[File:Italy_flag.png|20px|link=]]
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|[[Breda-SAFAT (7.7 mm)]]
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|1935
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|12.5
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|900
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|7.7 × 56 mm R
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| [[File:France_flag.png|20px|link=]]
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|[[MAC 1934 (7.5 mm)]]
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|1934
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|10.7
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|1350
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|7.5 × 54 mm MAS
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| [[File:Sweden_flag.png|20px|link=]]
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|[[Ksp m/22-37 R (8 mm)]]
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|1919
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|11.7
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|1200
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|8 × 63 mm
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== Usage in battles ==
 
== Usage in battles ==
 
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The PV-1 can be best described as lacklustre. A poor rate of fire combined with the low damage of the rifle-calibre rounds it fires means that it requires significant time on target for a kill. Now, this is not all hopeless, it can still destroy aircraft with patience and is better than no guns at all. However the rounds have a bad chance to impact and do no damage, or only register hits, requiring either successive passes on a slower target, occasionally 5-6 passes or more, or a very lucky pilot snipe to succeed. <!-- The guns utilise the "lead weight tactic" of weaponry as in, if you fill the fuselage with enough lead bullets, eventually it will weigh it down and it wont have engine power to lift anymore. -->
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The PV-1 can be best described as lacklustre. A poor rate of fire combined with the low damage of the rifle-calibre rounds it fires means that it requires significant time on target for a kill. It can still destroy aircraft with patience. However the rounds have a bad chance to impact and do no damage, or only register hits, requiring either successive passes on a slower target, occasionally 5-6 passes or more, or a very lucky pilot snipe to succeed.
  
 
=== Pros and cons ===
 
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== Media ==
 
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== See also ==
 
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* ''other literature.''
 
* ''other literature.''
  

Latest revision as of 18:37, 6 January 2024

Description

The 7.62 mm PV-1 (Pulemot Vozdushnyy pervyy or Air Machine Gun the first) is a 7.62 mm calibre machine gun which was first produced in 1926 for usage in Soviet aircraft. Mass production began in 1927 up to 1940. Later it was replaced by ShKAS.

PV-1 is a modification of Maxim gun which is compatible for aviation.

Vehicles equipped with this weapon

General info

PV-1 has almost the lowest fire rate (750 RPM) being higher only than Japanese Type 92 navy (7.7 mm). Aside from the default ball and plain tracer rounds, the PV-1's common round composition involves the API-T, API, and AI rounds. In game API and API-T bullets deal more damage at low distances, while AI bullet has less damage reduction, so it has more damage than API or API-T bullet in a distance higher than 500 m.

Available ammunition

  • Default: T · Ball · Ball · AP-I · AI
  • Universal: T · AP-I · AI · API-T
  • Tracers: API-T
  • Stealth: AP-I · AP-I · AP-I · AI
Penetration statistics
Ammunition Type of
warhead 		Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
10 m 100 m 500 m 1,000 m 1,500 m 2,000 m
T T 5 4 2 1 0 0
Ball Ball 5 4 2 1 0 0
AP-I AP-I 13 12 7 3 2 0
AI AI 3 3 3 3 3 3
API-T API-T 9 8 6 3 0 0
Shell details
Ammunition Type of
warhead 		Velocity
(m/s) 		Projectile
mass (kg) 		Fuse delay
(m) 		Fuse sensitivity
(mm) 		Explosive mass
(TNT equivalent) (g) 		Ricochet
0% 50% 100%
T T 815 0.01 N/A N/A N/A 47° 56° 65°
Ball Ball 866 0.01 N/A N/A N/A 47° 56° 65°
AP-I AP-I 818 0.01 N/A N/A N/A 47° 56° 65°
AI AI 815 0.01 N/A 3 N/A 47° 56° 65°
API-T API-T 865 0.01 N/A N/A N/A 47° 56° 65°

Comparison with analogues

Comparable machine guns to PV-1 (7.62 mm)
Country Name Year  of Creation Mass (kg) Rounds Per Minute Ammunition
USA flag.png Browning (7.62 mm) 1919 14 1000 7.62 × 63 mm
Germany flag.png MG 17 (7.92 mm) 1934 10.2 1150 7.92 × 57 mm
Germany flag.png MG 15 (7.92 mm) 1932 12.4 1150 7.92 × 57 mm
Britain flag.png Vickers K (7.7 mm) 1935 13.4 950 7.7 × 56 mm R
Japan flag.png Type 1 (7.92 mm) 1932 12.8 1150 7.92 × 57 mm
Japan flag.png Type 92 navy (7.7 mm) 1932 8 600 7.7 × 56 mm R
Japan flag.png Type 98 (7.92 mm) 1932 12.8 1150 7.92 × 57 mm
Japan flag.png Lewis (7.7 mm) 1911 13 900 7.7 × 56 mm R
Italy flag.png Breda-SAFAT (7.7 mm) 1935 12.5 900 7.7 × 56 mm R
France flag.png MAC 1934 (7.5 mm) 1934 10.7 1350 7.5 × 54 mm MAS
Sweden flag.png Ksp m/22-37 R (8 mm) 1919 11.7 1200 8 × 63 mm

Usage in battles

The PV-1 can be best described as lacklustre. A poor rate of fire combined with the low damage of the rifle-calibre rounds it fires means that it requires significant time on target for a kill. It can still destroy aircraft with patience. However the rounds have a bad chance to impact and do no damage, or only register hits, requiring either successive passes on a slower target, occasionally 5-6 passes or more, or a very lucky pilot snipe to succeed.

Pros and cons

Pros:

  • Reliable machine gun
  • Rate of fire allows for longer uninterrupted bursts

Cons:

  • Rifle-calibre ammo does comparatively little damage
  • Relative low rate of fire compared to other early MGs

History

The PV-1 (Pulemet Vozdushny or airborne machine gun) was an air-cooled version of the water-cooled M1910 Maxim gun, designed in 1926 for use on aircraft, and accepted for service in 1928. Created at the initiative of Alexander Vasilevich Nadashkevich of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the Soviet Air Force, its design was adapted from the M1910 to create a lighter gun with a higher rate of fire. The end result was a relatively light machine gun, cooled by a perforated barrel sleeve, which had a firing rate of 750 rpm compared with the original 600 rpm of the M1910. An attempt to build an even lighter variant, the A-2 which substituted some of the steel parts by duralumin parts, was not accepted for service due to the high rate of wear of the aluminium parts.

The gun was used on the Polikarpov I-3, I-4, I-5 and I-15 fighters, the Polikarpov R-5 reconnaissance plane and the Tupolev TB-1 bomber. However, the design was soon considered obsolete and gradually replaced by the ShKAS, which was chambered to the same ammunition but had a much higher rate of fire. Production of the PV-1 ran from 1927 until 1940, with a total of around 18000 made.

While the PV-1 was being phased out of service by the end of the 1930s, the German invasion of 1941 saw a great number of surplus PV-1s adopted for other purposes. Numerous former aircraft weapons were either adapted for use on a ZPU anti-aircraft mount, or even on the original carriage of the M1910 for infantry support.

Media

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See also

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External links

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Aircraft machine guns
USA 
7.62 mm  Browning · M134 Minigun
12.7 mm  GAU-19 · M2 Browning · M3 Browning
Germany 
7.62 mm  MG3
7.92 mm  MG 15 · MG 17 · MG 81
12.7 mm  FN M3P
13 mm  MG 131
USSR 
7.62 mm  DA · GShG-7.62 · PKT · PV-1 · ShKAS
12.7 mm  A-12.7 · Berezin UB · TKB-481 · YaK-B
Britain 
7.62 mm  FN 60.30 · L8A1
7.7 mm  Browning · Lewis · Vickers E · Vickers K
Japan 
7.7 mm  Te-1 · Type 89 · Type 89 'special' · Type 92 · Type 97 navy
7.92 mm  Type 1 · Type 98
12.7 mm  Ho-103 · Ho-104
13 mm  Type 2
13.2 mm  Type 3
China 
12.7 mm  QJK99-12.7-1
Italy 
7.7 mm  Breda-SAFAT · Lewis
7.92 mm  FN Browning
12.7 mm  Breda-SAFAT · FN M3M · Scotti
France 
7.5 mm  Darne 1933 · Fabrique Nationale Mle 38 · FN Browning · MAC 1934 · MAC 1934T · Mle 33 · Mle 1923
7.62 mm  PKA
7.92 mm  FN-Browning M.36 No.3 · FN-Browning M.36 No.4
Sweden 
7.7 mm  FN-Browning M.36 No.3
8 mm  Ksp m/22 · Ksp m/22 Fh · Ksp m/22 Fv · Ksp m/22-37 R
12.7 mm  Akan m/39A · Akan m/40 · Akan m/45 · LKk/42
13.2 mm  Akan m/39 · Akan m/39A

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