PPSh-41

Soviet PPSh-41 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Tokarev

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.

• 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)

• Guerillas in The Rundown

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

Television

• Stargate: SG1

Video Games

• Call of Duty 2