Posted on 10/15/2014 6:54:06 AM PDT by C19fan
For nearly 30 years, soldiers heard an unforgettable sound coming from a weapon firing from behind the rubble in Stalingrad. Or echoing in the frozen hills of the Korean Peninsula during human-wave attacks. Or even rattling the jungles of Vietnam during firefights with the Viet Cong.
BRRAP-PAP-PAP-PAP-PAP-PAP-PAP-PAP-PAP!
Before the AK-47 became the symbol of Soviet armed forces, there was the “burp gun”—officially, the PPSh-41. It’s an ugly gun that makes an ugly sound during extended fire.
Looks aside, the burp gun sure did work.
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Ive fired a PPsh and it wasn’t so great as expected. Build quality is very crude. Its certainly an up close and personal weapon. Looks are its best quality. The commies never were much for finish. As for cheap WWII subguns the Sten and M2 were considerably better. Altho the mag hanging off the side is sort of inconvenient and strange and the M2 cycles reallllyyy slowly. Hey, theyre guns so whats not to like.. :)
Uh, does this sound at all familiar?
QUIET!!! Someone might notice and be offended!
No no no no no, not familiar, not not like anything today, nothing like today...
I wonder if the blueprints of any of these cheap and dirty weapons have been rendered into 3-D printer ready software. Just a random thought.
Wow!
But the first pic is a Mosin M-44 funny that.
Racis’
Strong points of PPSh are high-capacity drum magazine and a superb TT pistol high-velocity round. A recoil is pretty much comfortable as well.
I honestly think it outclasses any WWII SMG in terms of basic performance.
But I agree that it is not the classiest thing in build quality. There is a little pleasure to hold one in your hands.
You needed strong arms to carry it, it weighed a ton. The grease gun was lighter, shorter, 45 cal. and great for house to house, room to room fighting. The PPSh was a spray and pray weapon with a 72 round mag. You didn’t need a marksman medal to use it, just strong arms.
plus it worked at 20 below zero
The main advantage was still a round. Overall, comparing to the MP-40 which was the major adversary, PPSh had twice the rate of fire, twice the magazine capacity, some +40% muzzle velocity, was a couple pounds lighter and the maximum firing range was some 50 yards further.
It was extraordinary easy to control, even for women and pre-teens.
I guess all of the above proved to be crucial in Stalingrad.
I don’t know is it a myth or not but it is rumored that the Germans were ditching their guns for PPSh at first opportunity.
When your back is to the wall, it is amazing what the human mind can come up with.
Evidently some German’s didn’t have to ditch their KAR-98s for PPSHs. The Wehrmacht had a program to convert the Soviet weapon to the 9mm Parabellem round. These bore the designation MP-41(r). In addition the German’s reissued unmodified PPSHs and provided 7.73X25MM Mauser cartridges as a replacement for the Soviet round. I have seen a couple of photos of German tank crews and one of a half track crew carrying the PPShs, but never any photos German infantry with that weapon.
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