RPD轻机枪由苏联著名的枪械设计大师瓦西里·捷格加廖夫于1943年开始设计,1946年定型并装备部队,是苏联在第二次世界大战后装备的第一代班用轻机枪,也是苏军中第一款使用7.62×39mm M43短弹的轻机枪。该枪虽然很快就被卡拉尼什柯夫所设计的RPK轻机枪所取代,在苏军中服役只有十几年的时间,但却在众多第三世界国家中广泛使用,我国仿制该枪而成的56式轻机枪更是使用了近40年。捷格加廖夫于1949年1月谢世,RPD成为他的收官之作,当之无愧的一代名枪—— RPD light machine gun by the famous Soviet gun design masters Vasiliy · · · · · · · · · · Ge Gai Liao Fu in 1943 began to design, shape and equipped with troops in 1946, the Soviet Union in the second generation after the Second World War equipment, light machine gun, It is also the first Soviet-made light machine gun to use 7.62 × 39mm M43 short bombs. Though soon replaced by the RPK light machine gun designed by Karanishev, the gun was only used for more than a dozen years in service in the Soviet army, it was widely used in many third world countries and was imitated by our country 56 light machine gun is the use of nearly 40 years. After his death in January 1949, Mr Gruggarev became the deserved name-for-his-gun of his ending,