Posted on 01/04/2021 8:13:19 AM PST by Onthebrink
Many of Russia’s guns of World War II are legends and were mass-produced the world over, but they did not get built or designed overnight.
Background:
When the Soviet Union faced invasion from Nazi Germany in 1941 its army was still utilizing the same basic bolt action rifle that had been carried a generation earlier during the First World War and the subsequent Russian Revolution and Civil War.
However, the Red Army was already looking to develop new small arms, and by the end of the Great Patriotic War – as the Second World War was labeled to the Russian people – millions of soldiers would be equipped with these weapons. It would also serve to jumpstart the Soviet arms industry, which would, in turn, see the development of some of the most infamous firearms ever created.
Soviet small arms have always been known for being somewhat crude yet reliable. The firearms were not always the most innovative or even the most advanced, but they worked well and in conditions where other guns would fail. So reliable were some of these small arms that their German adversaries often preferred captured weapons over their own issued weapons – this was especially true of the PPSh-41 submachine gun.
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I have a Mosin and a de-milled PPSh-41. Mosins are fun.
As long as it spits a projectile and stops an enemy, you use it.
They still had the Mosin bolt action, and used it well...
What ammo does it fire?
The T-34 was a game changer. It could easily defeat a panzer Mark 4. With 5,000 produced a month and an expected use life of 2 months, the nazis were overwhelmed.
The Mosin shoots the 7.62x54r round, about equivalent to a 30.06. Great gun, I have one myself.
Shooting com-bloc firearms is great fun. Especially love “Ol’ Fireball”, my M38 Mosin.
Mosin = 7.62x54r
PPSh-41 = 7.62x25 same a Tokarev pistol
“same as”
Interesting and informative.
14 words and you didn’t say a damn thing.
Then please accept my apology. I read your reply in an upside down manner.
It wasnt just the fire amrs the Russian had-matter of fact, although they were a factor-it takes somebody to fire them.
The Russians simply over whelmed the Germans in massive numbers.
Then, after they got done with the Germans, they went after the Japanese.
Yeah, Russian firearms didn’t beat Hitler. Overwhelming numbers of combatants did.
That and Dodge trucks imported from America. Gave the Russians mechanized logistics while Hitler still largely relied on horse-drawn.
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