7.62x54mmR
Introduced 1891Colonel N. F. RogovtsevCIP standard
Also known as 7.62 Russian, 7,62 x 54 R — the same cartridge under different names, all of which find this page.
Dimensions and pressure
Generated from the schema, like every specification table on this site, so a figure recorded on this entry cannot be missing from the table.
Identity
- Designed by
- Colonel N. F. Rogovtsev
- Introduced
- 1891
- Production
- not recorded
- Standards body
- C.I.P.
- Case type
- Rimmed
- Case shape
- Bottleneck
Dimensions
- Bullet diameter
- 7.92 mm0.3118 insource
Cartridge maximum, dimension G1.
- Bore diameter
- not recorded
- Case length
- 53.72 mm2.115 insource
Cartridge maximum, dimension L3.
- Overall length
- 77.16 mm3.038 insource
Cartridge maximum, dimension L6.
- Rim diameter
- 14.48 mm0.5701 insource
Dimension R1.
- Neck diameter
- 8.53 mm0.3358 insource
Dimension H2.
- Base diameter
- 12.37 mm0.4870 insource
Dimension P1.
Pressure
- Maximum pressure
- 390 MPa56,565 psisource
Pmax 3900 bar, transducer method.
- Pressure standard
- C.I.P.
SAAMI and C.I.P. measure pressure differently and their figures are not interchangeable, which is why the body is always named beside the figure.
Loads
Velocity is recorded per barrel length as published. A gun page interpolates between these points and never projects beyond them.
Sellier & Bellot 9.7 g FMJ
Sellier & Bellot
- Bullet mass
- 9.7 g149.7 grsource
Ballistics table of the cited article.
- Cartridge mass
- not recorded
- Bullet type
- FMJ
- G1 BC
- not recorded
- G7 BC
- not recorded
| Barrel | Velocity |
|---|---|
| 730 mm28.74 in | 865 m/s2,838 fps |
Chambered in
Computed from every entry that lists this cartridge. Nothing here is hand-maintained.
- SVD
Izhmash
- Mosin–Nagant
Tula Arms Plant
- PKM
V. A. Degtyarev Plant
Gallery
Image credit
- Title
- Cartridge 7.62x54mmR CC BY-SA 4.0 by Grasyl
- Author
- Grasyl(attribution required)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Source
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cartridge_7.62x54mmR_CC_BY-SA_4.0_by_Grasyl.jpg
Detail
Adopted with the Mosin-Nagant in 1891 and still in front-line service, this is the longest-serving rifle cartridge in the world and the last rimmed military round of consequence. The rim was not a conservative choice at the time; it was the ordinary one, and it survived because Soviet designers kept finding ways to work around it rather than replacing the ammunition stockpile. A rimmed case will not stack neatly in a box magazine and will not push straight forward out of a belt, which is why the machine guns that use it strip the round backwards out of the belt before chambering it.
The dimensions here are C.I.P. cartridge maxima. Wartime and post-war Soviet production varied considerably around them, and any figure for a specific arsenal lot is not something this page claims.
References
- C.I.P. TDCC datasheet, 7,62 x 54 R · Tab. II, dated 1984-06-14, revision 2014-05-20 · read 2026-08-27
- 7.62x54mmR · 1358912988 · read 2026-08-27
Last verified 2026-08-27 · review status: spot-checked