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[[Image:PPSH-01-SMG.jpg‎|thumb|400px|Soviet PPSh-41 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Tokarev]]
 
[[Image:PPSH-01-SMG.jpg‎|thumb|400px|Soviet PPSh-41 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Tokarev]]
[[Image:PPSh-43-Submachine-Gun.jpg‎|thumb|400px|Soviet PPSh-43 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Tokarev]]
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[[Image:PPS-43-Submachine-Gun.jpg‎|thumb|400px|Soviet PPS-43 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Tokarev]]
  
The PPSh-41, ''Pistolet-Pulemyot Shpagina'', was a mass produced Submachine gun used by the Red Army during World War 2.   But the large capacity drum was slow to refill with ammunition and heavy to reload (and also had a tendency to jam)Trying to fix some of the drawbacks and also ease manufacture, the '''PPSh-43''' was developed.  The PPSh-43 submachine gun was simpler to manufacture, was lighter, had a pistol grip, a folding stock and the "easier to use & reload" stick Magazine.  Though the PPSh-43 was built and fielded during the time frame of the Second World War, it was rarely seen except for the very last months of the war. The PPSh-41 dominated the Red Army's arsenal for World War 2, primarily due to the huge number that was built and distributed.  The PPSh-43 became the standard submachine gun for all Warsaw Pact and Communist client nations until the late 1960s.
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The PPSh-41, ''Pistolet-Pulemyot Shpagina'', 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.   
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During the siege of Leningrad, the PPS-43 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 supressed after the war, though some production did occur in Soviet satellite states.
  
 
This gun appeared in these:
 
This gun appeared in these:
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==Film==
 
==Film==
  
* Viet Minh Forces fighting the French in ''[[We Were Soldiers]]'': used both PPSh-41s and PPSh-43s.
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* Viet Minh Forces fighting the French in ''[[We Were Soldiers]]'': used both PPSh-41s and PPS-43s.
  
 
* Border Guards in ''[[Escape from East Berlin]]'':  (PPSh-41)
 
* Border Guards in ''[[Escape from East Berlin]]'':  (PPSh-41)
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* Guerillas in ''[[The Rundown]]''
 
* Guerillas in ''[[The Rundown]]''
  
* [[Luke Ford]] as Alex in ''[[The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor]]'' (PPSh-43)
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* [[Luke Ford]] as Alex in ''[[The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor]]'' (PPS-43)
  
 
==Television==
 
==Television==

Revision as of 00:58, 1 December 2008

Soviet PPSh-41 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Tokarev
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Soviet PPS-43 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Tokarev

The PPSh-41, Pistolet-Pulemyot Shpagina, 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.

During the siege of Leningrad, the PPS-43 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 supressed after the war, though some production did occur in Soviet satellite states.

This gun appeared in these:

Film

  • Viet Minh Forces fighting the French in We Were Soldiers: used both PPSh-41s and PPS-43s.
  • 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 (rather anachronistically) in The Amateur: (PPSh-41)

Television

Video Games


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