M60 machine gun vs RPK: Specs Compared

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ASmall arms

M60 machine gun

General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun

BSmall arms

RPK

Light machine gun Squad automatic weapon

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Alizald khomeini · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Resized · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source ↗ · Modified

First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

M60 machine gunLength

1.105 m

Length source ↗

RPKstock extended

1.04 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

M60 machine gunlarger figure on 2 of 3

Mass+119%

Measured figures

Head to head

27 of 117 rows sourced on both sides

1.11m

1.04mstock extended

Length

All recorded figures & sources

1.105 m

Length

Single source

1,105 mm (43.5 in)^[source]

1.04 m

stock extended

Single source

Configuration

Details

M60 machine gun and RPK configuration
Specification	M60 machine gun	RPK
Type	General-purpose machine gun Medium machine gun^[source]	Light machine gun Squad automatic weapon^[source]
Place of origin	United States^[source]	Soviet Union^[source]
In service	1960–present^[source]	1961–present^[source]
Used by	See Users^[source]	See Users^[source]

Wars	Vietnam War Laotian Civil War Dominican Civil War Cambodian Civil War Moro conflict The Troubles Lebanese Civil War Cambodian–Vietnamese War Sino-Vietnamese War Salvadoran Civil War Operation Urgent Fury Operation Just Cause Persian Gulf War Operation Gothic Serpent War in Afghanistan Iraq War Cambodian–Thai border stand-off Colombian armed conflict Insurgency in the Philippines Bougainville conflict Myanmar conflict various others^[source]	See Conflicts^[source]

Designed	1952–1957^[source]	1959-61^[source]

Manufacturer	Saco Defense U.S. Ordnance^[source]	Vyatskiye Polyany Machine-Building Plant^[source]

Unit cost	US$6,000 (M60E3)^[source]	—

Produced	1957–present^[source]	1961–1978^[source]

Variants	See Variants^[source]	See Variants^[source]

Cartridge	7.62×51mm NATO^[source]	7.62×39mm M43^[source]

Action	Gas-operated , short-stroke gas piston, opened rotating bolt^[source]	Gas-operated , rotating bolt ; closed bolt^[source]

Feed system	Disintegrating belt with M13 Links^[source]	30-, 40-round box magazine, 75-round drum magazine^[source]

Sights	Iron sights^[source]	Iron sights : semi-shrouded front post and rear sliding tangent with an adjustable notch^[source]

Designer	—	Mikhail Kalashnikov^[source]

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