The first spetsnaz units were formed in the wake of World War II for the purpose ... One of the weapons on this list is the RPK-16, an advanced light machine gun. This is one of the most recent ...

One of the most famous snipers of World War II was Lyudmila Pavlichenko of the Soviet Union ... to sniper rifles and anti-materiel rifles, machine guns also rank among the top spots.

a Russian-made field artillery gun developed in the early 1940s. Unlike the M1910 machine gun, there does not seem to be a distinct advantage to using World War II-era artillery weapons.