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To: archy
Is that a PPS-43 he's armed with? If so, how did he get it? I thought those weapons only turned up in the Far East.
32 posted on 08/06/2003 12:29:49 PM PDT by Sparta (Send the Palestinians to their homeland, Jordan.)
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To: Sparta
Is that a PPS-43 he's armed with? If so, how did he get it? I thought those weapons only turned up in the Far East.

Either a Sudarev-designed PPS-43 or possibly the earlier PPS-42 version. As for its provenance, most any sort of weapon is liable to turn up most anywhere in Africa; the place is a collector's dream and an armourers and logistician's nightmare.

But the things also turned up in Rhodesia during the 1970s, and I believe were also used and possibly produced by the North Koreans for their airborne forces before being replaced with Kalishnikovs, making the surplus Sudarevs available as military aid to *National Liberation* movements- or paying customers with the right cash.


35 posted on 08/06/2003 12:46:17 PM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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