{"id":24219,"date":"2024-02-10T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/dsas-modernized-mini-rpd-at-the-range-youtube-cut\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T07:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T13:00:43","slug":"dsas-modernized-mini-rpd-at-the-range-youtube-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/dsas-modernized-mini-rpd-at-the-range-youtube-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"DSA&#8217;s Modernized Mini-RPD at the Range (YouTube Cut)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o5UzLsGyKZk?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Full video available at all of these sites:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/forgottenweapons.vhx.tv\/videos\/mini-rpd-at-the-range\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/forgottenweapons.vhx.tv\/videos\/mini-rpd-at-the-range<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/97925889\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/97925889\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/playeur.com\/v\/zA-dyit8R3G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/playeur.com\/v\/zA-dyit8R3G<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I am at the range with one of DSA&#8217;s mini-RPDs. The RPD is a nearly 80-year-old design (doesn&#8217;t that make you feel old!) and a really good candidate for modernization. DSA made a whole bunch of improvements &#8211; new dual-spring recoil system, fluted barrel, solidly fitted handguard with a nice repeatable optics mount, and adapters to use SAW belt bags. I will be doing a short series on the whole RPD modernization program at DSA, but here&#8217;s a short range teaser until that is ready&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full video available at all of these sites:https:\/\/forgottenweapons.vhx.tv\/videos\/mini-rpd-at-the-range https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/97925889\/ https:\/\/playeur.com\/v\/zA-dyit8R3G https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home Today I am at the range with one of DSA&#8217;s mini-RPDs. The RPD is a nearly 80-year-old design (doesn&#8217;t that make you feel old!) and a really good candidate for modernization. DSA made a whole bunch of improvements &#8211; new dual-spring recoil system, fluted&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/dsas-modernized-mini-rpd-at-the-range-youtube-cut\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DSA&#8217;s Modernized Mini-RPD at the Range (YouTube Cut)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}