RPD

RPD is a light machine gun developed in the Soviet Union. Its development began in 1943, but it wasn't put into wide use until the 1950s.

I don't know what RPD stands for. I imagine it's something in Russian, which is not so helpful because I don't speak Russian and neither do you.

I just looked up Rodney Dangerfield to see if maybe RPD were his initials, but they weren't. Rodney Dangerfield's real name was Jacob Cohen.

I also looked up Robert Duvall. But his middle name was Selden.


Like most people, Rodney Dangerfield is dead.
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