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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • Type 68 copies replaced in frontline service by the Baek-Du San pistol. PPSh-41 – Used by the Worker-Peasant Red Guards. Mosin-Nagant – Used by the Worker-Peasant...
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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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    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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    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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