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The 14.5×114mm (.57 calibre) is a heavy machine gun and anti-materiel rifle cartridge used by the Soviet Union, the former Warsaw Pact, modern Russia, and other countries.. It was originally developed for the PTRS and PTRD anti-tank rifles, and was later used as the basis for the KPV heavy machine gun that formed the basis of the ZPU series anti-aircraft guns that is also the main armament of ...
When one tries to make a link in beta, or do a search for "14.5mm", it just comes up with a single rifle meant for this cartridge (the PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle), and some American cartridge made from a necked up .50BMG and called the "14.5mm JDJ".
The KPV was a heavy machine gun developed by S. V. Vladimirov. It was developed in 1944 and adopted in 1949. It combines the rate of fire of a heavy machine gun with the armor-piercing capabilities of antitank rifles and was designed to combat lightly armored targets, firepower and manpower of the enemy located behind light cover, as well as to be an anti-aircraft machine gun.
14.5×114mm (NTW 14.5) 20×82mm (NTW 20) 20×110mm Hispano (NTW 20) Neopup PAW-20 South Africa: 2015 Rotating bolt 20x42mm SAN 511 (formerly OM 50 Nemesis) Switzerland: Bolt-action .50 BMG Solothurn S-18/1000 Switzerland: 1939 Semi-automatic 20x138mmB Snipex Alligator Ukraine: 2020 Bolt-action 14.5×114mm Snipex M Ukraine: 2017 Rotating bolt
The 14.5mm armour-piercing bullet has a muzzle velocity of 1,013 m/s (3,320 ft/s) and devastating ballistics. It can penetrate an armour plate up to 40 mm (1.6 in) thick at a distance of 100 m (330 ft). [4] In 1943 Simonov used a scaled-down PTRS-41 design for the SKS, that would accommodate the new 1943-designed 7.62×39mm cartridge.
All weapons in the ZPU series have air-cooled quick-change barrels and can fire a variety of ammunition including API (B32), API (BS41), API-T (BZT) and I-T (ZP) projectiles. Each barrel has a maximum rate of fire of around 600 rounds per minute, though this is practically limited to about 150 rounds per minute.
Common rifle cartridges, from the largest .50 BMG to the smallest .22 Long Rifle with a $1 United States dollar bill in the background as a reference point.. This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name.
Based on the state examinations results, the 14.5×114 mm caliber Snipex Alligator rifle was unofficially adopted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2020; [6] it was officially adopted on 2 March 2021. [1] The Alligator has been used by Ukrainian forces during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [7]