Predator145
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A copy paste job from Sketchfab: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/kpv-145-heavy-machine-gun-15cd59c1a3f4484a9dcac2243c9481a8
Gwendoline and Wyrmshadow parts are used.
This is meant to be an early Cold War flavor counterpart to Wyrmshadow's Vietnam era M2 Browning HMG team and the Bundeswehr MG3 team. I've decided to keep the unit rather large because it doesn't have any crew. Scaling down and having it stand on its own makes it too thin and hard to notice. Being crewless this can be used as a flavor unit for any civ that uses Soviet weapons during the Cold War and Modern period. The vagueness means it can also be used as a light anti tank weapon like the ww2 era 20mm Madsen, 20mm Solothurn on wheeled carriage or the 24mm Tankbuechse in a pinch.
Civilopedia entry:
"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. It first entered service as an infantry weapon. But in the 1960s, the towed infantry version was removed from service for being too heavy for the rapid mechanized warfare the Soviets envisioned. The static fighting in the Russo-Ukraine war however has seen the return of this weapon in its wheeled carriage form."
Gwendoline and Wyrmshadow parts are used.
This is meant to be an early Cold War flavor counterpart to Wyrmshadow's Vietnam era M2 Browning HMG team and the Bundeswehr MG3 team. I've decided to keep the unit rather large because it doesn't have any crew. Scaling down and having it stand on its own makes it too thin and hard to notice. Being crewless this can be used as a flavor unit for any civ that uses Soviet weapons during the Cold War and Modern period. The vagueness means it can also be used as a light anti tank weapon like the ww2 era 20mm Madsen, 20mm Solothurn on wheeled carriage or the 24mm Tankbuechse in a pinch.
Civilopedia entry:
"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. It first entered service as an infantry weapon. But in the 1960s, the towed infantry version was removed from service for being too heavy for the rapid mechanized warfare the Soviets envisioned. The static fighting in the Russo-Ukraine war however has seen the return of this weapon in its wheeled carriage form."
