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*Later, further experiment of DP-28 known as DPM-36 conducted with several improvement and replacement. The DPM-36 doesn't equipped with a standard Pan Magazine, where it replaced by box magazine and Maxim belt-fed system. Also, the Paratrooper version had a bayonet lug attached and shorter barrel.<ref>[https://www.forgottenweapons.com/soviet-experimental-dpm-36-lmg-variations/ DPM-38 variations of Forgotten Weapons]</ref>
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*Some of DP-28s was modified to be an AAA Machinegun by putting 4 of them, called DTM-4.<ref>[http://www.bratishka.ru/archiv/2010/5/images/2010051007.jpg Quadmount DP-28]</ref>
*Because the pan magazine on DP28 prone to jamming and malfunction which limiting its Rate of Fire, on 1946 Vasily Degtyaryov decided to manufacture a belt-fed version of DP-28 which called RP-46. RP-46 still able to feed old DP pan magazine by removing its feeding system.
**Just before RP-46 was manufactured, further experiment of DP-28 known as DPM-36 conducted with several improvement and replacement. The DPM-36 doesn't equipped with a standard Pan Magazine, where it replaced by box magazine and Maxim belt-fed system. Also, the Paratrooper version had a bayonet lug attached and shorter barrel.<ref>[https://www.forgottenweapons.com/soviet-experimental-dpm-36-lmg-variations/ DPM-38 variations of Forgotten Weapons]</ref>
*The experimental Hopper-Fed System for the DP-28 had been conducted after Japanese Invasion of Manchuria and Soviet-Japan Border Skirmish. Using the feeding mechanism as Japanese Type 11 Machinegun does, DP-28 replaced the cumbersome standard pan magazine with detachable hopper where the operator able to refill even the hopper was still attached with 5-stripper clips. However, the hopper mechanism is vulnerable of dust and dirt entrance. This so called Kubynov Hopper-Fed DP-28.<ref>[https://www.forgottenweapons.com/kubynov-hopper-fed-dp28/ Kubynov DP-28 on Forgotten Weapons]</ref>
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