PKM Machine Gun

The  is a machine gun that appears in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Lost Alpha.

"This belt-fed machine gun is a portable modification with a complex two-stage feeding system. Despite its weight and low precision, this LMG has found admirers in the Zone. Used primarily to fight off outnumbering enemy forces during faction conflicts and clear out mutant lairs."

- Inventory description

Overview

 * The PKM (Пулемёт Калашникова Модернизированный, Pulemyot Kalashnikova Modernizírovanny, Kalashnikov's Machine-gun Modernized) is a general purpose machine gun designed in the Soviet Union. The PKM machine gun was introduced in the 1960s and replaced the SGM and RPD machine guns in Soviet service. PKM can be used as a light anti-aircraft weapon when it is put on an AA mount. One feature typical to Soviet machine guns is that the standard model feeds from the right and ejects its rounds via an ejection port on the left side of the weapon, as opposed to the usual right side ejection port seen in most western machine guns.
 * In the game the appears in two variants, as a normal (mobile) gun and as an (immobile) installation, mounted on a tripod.
 * The mobile variant was introduced in the Developer's Cut (v1.4000+) as RP-74 and renamed to PKM in v1.4005.
 * A unique variant is Zulu's PKM.

Lost Alpha

 * Not available in Lost Alpha.