"Kord" — is a Russian heavy-caliber machine gun with a belt-fed cartridge of 12.7×108 mm.

It is designed to combat lightly armored targets and firepower, destroy enemy manpower at ranges up to 2000 m and defeat air targets at inclined ranges up to 1500 m.

The Kord machine gun was created in the 90s as a replacement for the NSV (Utes) machine gun, the production of which, after the collapse of the USSR, turned out to be partially outside Russia.
Since 2001, serial production has been established, the machine gun has been officially adopted by the Armed Forces of Russia. In addition to the infantry version, it is installed in an anti-aircraft installation on the turret of the Russian T-90S tank.