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PPSh-41
The PPSh-41, Pistolet-Pulemyot Shpagina, was a mass produced Submachine gun used by the Red Army during World War 2. But the large capacity drum was slow to refill with ammunition and heavy to reload (and also had a tendency to jam). Trying to fix some of the drawbacks and also ease manufacture, the PPSh-43 was developed. The PPSh-43 submachine gun was simpler to manufacture, was lighter, had a pistol grip, a folding stock and the "easier to use & reload" stick Magazine. Though the PPSh-43 was built and fielded during the time frame of the Second World War, it was rarely seen except for the very last months of the war. The PPSh-41 dominated the Red Army's arsenal for World War 2, primarily due to the huge number that was built and distributed. The PPSh-43 became the standard submachine gun for all Warsaw Pact and Communist client nations until the late 1960s.
This gun appeared in these:
Film
- Viet Minh Forces fighting the French in We Were Soldiers used both PPSh-41s and PPSh-43s.
- 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 (PPSh-43)