PPSh-41

The PPS series of submachine guns can be seen in the following films, television series, and video games used by the following actors:

Soviet PPSh-41 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Tokarev

Soviet PPS-43 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Tokarev

Information

The PPSh-41, "Pistolet Pulemyot Shpagina model of 1941", was a mass produced Submachine gun used by the Red Army during World War 2. Designed to be easier to manufacture and more reliable than the PPD-38/40 that it replaced, it was a great success in spite of its weight. This gun was used with 71 round drum magazine, but since 1942 PPSh was also used with 35 round stick magazine.

During the siege of Leningrad, the PPS-43 "Pistolet-Pulemyot Sudaeva" submachine gun was developped. Manufactured entirely within the city under siege, it was lighter and easier to use than the PPSh-41, dispensing with the drum magazine in favor of the 35 round stick magazine. However, the design was virtually suppressed after the war, though some production did occur in Soviet satellite states.

Film

• Viet Minh, North Vietnamise and Vietcong Forces in We Were Soldiers: used both PPSh-41s and PPS-43s.

• Border Guards in Escape from East Berlin: (PPSh-41)

• Rolf Steiner, played by James Coburn, a German officer who picked it up on the battlefield and kept it as his weapon in the movie Cross of Iron: (PPSh-41)

• Soviet soldiers in Enemy at the Gates: (PPSh-41)

• Soviet soldiers in Downfall aka "Der Untergang" : (PPSh-41)

• Soviet soldiers in Hitler: The Last Ten Days: (PPSh-41)

• Soviet Soldiers (rather anachronistically) in The Amateur: (PPSh-41)

• On a weapons display in The Green Berets: (K-50)

• Guerillas in The Rundown (PPSh-41)

• Luke Ford as Alex in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (PPS-43)

• Used by Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner in The Hunters (1958) (PPSh-41)

• North Korean soldiers in Tae Guk Gi (PPSh-41)

• Jewish Prisoners during revolt in The Grey Zone (PPS-43)

• Soldiers in Iron Eagle (PPS-43)

Television

• Stargate: SG1 (PPSh-41)

Video Games

• Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 (PPSh-42 & PPS-43)

• Call of Duty

• Call of Duty: United Offensive (with drum and box (non-playable) magazines)

• Call of Duty: Finest Hour

• Call of Duty 2

• Call of Duty: World at War

• Medal of Honor: European Assault