schedule because the ShVAK receiver was fairly complex to manufacture. According to Soviet records, out of the 410 12.7 mm ShVAKs planned for aircraft...

skinned with Bakelite. The Yak-9U was typically armed with a 20 mm (0.79 in) ShVAK cannon firing through the hollow propeller shaft, and two 12.7 mm (0.50 in)...

production in 1934. ShKAS was used in the majority of Soviet fighters and bombers and served as the basis for the ShVAK cannon. ShKAS is a gas-operated...

12 Version of I-16 Type 5 with 2 ShKAS machine guns and 2 ShVAK cannons. I-16 Type 16 Type 10 with synchronized ShVAK 12.7mm prototypes. Only three were...

62-millimeter (0.30 in) ShKAS machine gun and another ShKAS mounted in a ventral hatch. The tail gunner had a powered turret with a ShVAK and, most unusually...

'Motor Cannon'), twin 7.62 mm (0.300 in) synchronized ShKAS machine guns in cowling mounts and a ShVAK cannon in each wing. During the Battle of Stalingrad...

removing the two cowl mounted ShKAS machine guns and standardizing on the axially mounted ShVAK and one Berezin machine gun. The ShKAS machine guns were removed...

yet ready for production and the production La-7 retained the two 20-mm ShVAK cannon armament of the La-5. Five La-7s were built in March by Factory (Zavod)...

armed with 3 × 20 mm (0.79 in) ShVAK cannons and 2 × 7.62 mm (0.300 in) ShKAS machine guns, and I-30-2 with two additional ShKAS. It did not enter production...

was a welcome replacement for the ShVAK because it was significantly lighter - 25 kg (55 lb) to the 40 kg (80 lb) ShVAK - without sacrificing rate of fire...