RPK

"A light machine gun based off of the AKM. It has an extended barrel, a drum style magazine, and is equipped with a bipod."

- Official Combat Arms Website

The RPK (Ruchnoy Pulemyot Kalashnikova, Russian: Ручной пулемёт Калашникова or "hand-held machine gun of Kalashnikov") is a Russian Light Machine Gun. It is based on the AK style design with a 100-round drum Magazine to fit into the Machine Gun category.

In-Game Stats
The weapon is one of the lower-Rank Restriction items in the Shop, with a Staff Sergeant 3 requirement or higher. Because of the machine gun's fairly low spread, it is dangerous at short and medium distances, The RPK kinds of bridges the gap between the K3 and the MK.48, with firepower the same as the AK, and with a modest fire rate that most AK's have. Another noticeable feature on this automatic weapon is the reload rate and draw speed of this weapon; compared to the machine guns in the game that were fed by a belt in a box, the RPK's draw and reload are actually slightly faster than the other machine guns (the more recent MG36, however, is even better than this but it is not purchasable with GP). This machine gun has a price tag of 1,100 GP per day, a bit more expensive than the K3 and the MK.48.

The RPK itself has many different models including the RPK-74, RPKs MOD, and the RPK-74M.



Usage
The RPK is one of the most used Machine Guns in the game. This is due to the fact that it has the power, weight, and even the sheer similarty of an AK-47 (a 3 hit-kill) along with a fantastic rate of fire and one of the most manageable recoils of any Machine Gun in the game. It also has high accuracy for an Machine Gun, so high that it's more accurate than almost any other Machine Gun in the game. However, like every MG, it's relatively heavy, which provides a good opportunity for players with longer ranged weapons or bunny-hopping SMG users to kill someone using the RPK. The RPK is considered by many to be the best machine gun available through GP. On the other hand, the MG36 is considered to be the best machine gun available through NX.

Trivia

 * The actual RPK's drum magazine holds 75 rounds instead of 100. This change was probably made so it can match/excel the performances of the older machine guns in the game.


 * In real life, the RPK is a more "modernized" version of the AKM (which in turn is the modernized version of the AK-47), replacing notable exterior parts (interior, too, but it's just a gameplay item here) for more reliability and better performance as a support weapon. The longer barrel with bipods was added to increase durability from continuous fire, and the stock was replaced along with a larger magazine.