Users
- Afghanistan
- Albania: Uses both Soviet and locally produced ASh-78 Tip-2 rifles.
- Bulgaria: Produced by Arsenal as the LMG in three different calibers, 7.62x39mm, 5.45x39mm and 5.56x45mm NATO. A folding stock variant is known as the LMG-F.
- Cambodia
- Cape Verde
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo-Brazzaville
- Cuba
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Guinea-Bissau
- Hungary
- Iran
- Iraq
- Latvia
- Libya
- Malaysia: RPK-74 variant is used by the Grup Gerak Khas (GGK) of the Malaysian Army.
- Mali – Armed and Security Forces of Mali
- Malta
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- North Korea: Type 64.
- Poland
- Romania: Built by Fabrica de Arme Cugir SA as the Puşcă Mitralieră model 1964 ("model 1964 light machine gun") and later, a 5.45mm version based on on the PA md. 86—the Mitralieră md. 1993 ("model 1993 light machine gun").
- Russia RPK-74 RPK-74M
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
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