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    The PPSh-41 (Russian: Пистоле́т-пулемёт Шпа́гина-41, romanized: Pistolét-pulemyót Shpágina-41, lit. 'Shpagin's machine-pistol-41') is a selective-fire...
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    PPS submachine gun (redirect from PPSh-43)
    lightweight weapon with similar accuracy and projectile energy to the Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun widely deployed at the time, with reduced rate of fire,...
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  • Walther PP Tokarev TT-33 (supplies from USSR 1944) ZK-383 Steyr MP34 MP 40 PPSh-41 (supplies from USSR 1944) PPS-43 (supplies from USSR 1944) Steyr-Mannlicher...
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    an open bolt, and was capable of selective fire. It was replaced by the PPSh-41. Developed in the Soviet Union by arms designer Vasily Degtyaryov, the...
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  • PPSh may refer to: PPSh-41, a Soviet World War II-era submachine gun with a drum or normal magazine PPS-43, a.k.a. PPS, a different Soviet World War II-era...
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    Further, some weapons—notably anti-personnel explosives, the K-50M (a PPSh-41 copy), and "home-made" versions of the RPG-2—were manufactured in North...
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    MP 40 (redirect from MP 41)
    as the Battle of Stalingrad, where entire enemy units were armed with PPSh-41 submachine guns, the Germans found themselves out-gunned in short range...
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    numbers of the PPSh-41, in addition to the North Korean Type 49 and the Chinese Type 50, which were both licensed copies of the PPSh-41 with small mechanical...
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    officers – while some Soviet rifle companies were completely equipped with PPSh-41 submachine guns. After experiencing high volumes of automatic fire from...
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    was a Soviet weapons designer. He is best-known as the creator of the PPSh-41, a submachine gun that saw widespread use by the Red Army on the Eastern...
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  • PPD-40, PPSh-41 and PPS-43. The letter after the PP (ПП) in the gun's designation is from the designer's name. For example, the "Sh" in PPSh stands for...
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    most produced submachine gun of the Second World War, after the Soviet PPSh-41. The Sten served as the basis for the Sterling submachine gun, which replaced...
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    forces. M3/M3A1 Grease Gun: Captured from government forces. vz. 24/26 PPSh-41 PPS-43 K-50M MAS-49/56 Carbine: Captured from government forces. M1/M2...
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    1934. Further development of the PPD-34 led to the simplified PPD-40 and PPSh-41. The MP 18 was a heavy weapon, weighing over 5 kg (11.0 lb) when fully...
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    that are reloadable. The Soviet P-41 was a 74 grain, steel-cored, incendiary variant produced for use in the PPSh-41 and PPS-43 during World War II. This...
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    Retrieved 30 October 2018. Berg, Bill (January 8, 2008). "Unusual PPSh-41s". Bill's PPSh-41 Pages. Retrieved 2022-10-11. http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht...
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    Parabellum instead, and the latter magazine was most common. The Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun and PPS-43 which replaced the PPD were cheaper and more...
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  • highly controllable and with accuracy similar to that of the mass-produced PPSh-41 but at the cost of a significantly higher mass to absorb recoil, with a...
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    Kalashnikov. This was the first weapon made in North Korea alongside the PPSh-41, made under license as the Type 49. It was made in Factory 61 and 65 in...
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    for the 7.62×25mm Tokarev pistol cartridge, which was also used in the PPSh-41 submachine gun. He also built at least one prototype chambered for the...
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  • (French only) PPSh-41 PPS-43 Sten submachine gun (PVA) Thompson M1928A1 (PVA) Type 36 submachine gun (M3 copy, PVA) Type 49 submachine gun (PPSh-41 copy) Type...
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  • the Bulgarian army had: 3,043 ZK-383; 5,440 MP 40; 6,152 PPS-43; 4,421 PPSh-41. Several hundred SMGs were supplied to the Bulgarian Gendarmerie (formed...
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    techniques used in making the German MP 40, the British Sten, and the Soviet PPSh-41 and PPS-43 were studied in detail.[citation needed] Two designs were tested...
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  • MG3 Risa Taneda Brianna Roberts Scorpion Eriko Matsui Kristen McGuire PPSh-41 Sumire Uesaka Natalie Rose Sangvis Ferri (SF) Character Voice actor (JP)...
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    SMLE Mk III and MAS-36 bolt-action rifles, Carl Gustaf m/45, MAT-49 and PPSh-41 submachine guns, M2 and SIG SG 543 carbines, MAS-49, M1 Garand (or its...
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  • design is quite different. The design is a closer cousin to the Soviet PPSh-41. The TAC-1 is an open bolt, blowback-operated firearm that uses a screw-delayed...
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  • Einstossflammenwerfer 46 Flammenwerfer 35 Flammenwerfer 41 Abwehrflammenwerfer 42 Stielgranate 41 Stielgranate 42 Krieghoff Model L 5 cm Granatwerfer 36...
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    rudimentary training had difficulty maintaining it. Submachine guns like the PPSh-41 had proven their value as simple, cheap, and effective weapons to supplement...
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    and at roughly 4:00 pm, quickly jumped over the barrier, dropped his PPSh-41 submachine gun, ran north on Ruppiner Straße, across Bernauer Straße, and...
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  • md. 63, PA md. 86, Norinco CQ, RPK, RPK-74, DP-28, PK machine gun, SVD, PPSh-41, MP-40, TT-33, Makarov PM, Stechkin APS, Nagant M1895, F1 grenade, RGD-5...
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