Videos tagged with PPS-42

This YouTube video features a "Training-Cutaway PPS-42," providing a detailed look at this Soviet submachine gun. The description includes a wide array of relevant terms, from specific firearm families and models to historical context like "WW2" and "Soviet Union." It also touches on gaming connections with "Call of Duty" and "Warzone," and general shooting terminology like "ASMR" and "bullet."

This video features a rare range test of the Leningrad emergency-production PPS-42 submachine gun. The description highlights its historical context, noting its development into the more common PPS-43. This is presented as a unique opportunity to see this scarce firearm in action, filmed recently.

This video delves into the history and development of the PPS-42 submachine gun, a Soviet design that emerged during the Siege of Leningrad. It highlights how the PPS-42 was conceived as a simpler and more resource-efficient alternative to the PPSh-41. The narrative traces its design by Aleksey Sudaev, its production challenges in besieged Leningrad, and the subsequent improvements that led to the more widely produced PPS-43. The video emphasizes the wartime context and the immediate deployment of the PPS-42 into combat.

This video explores the Finnish M44 submachine gun, a design heavily influenced by the Soviet PPS-43. Faced with an expensive and slow-to-produce domestic submachine gun (the kp/31 Suomi), Finland opted to copy the simpler, stamped-sheet-metal design of the Soviet PPS-42/43 captured during the Continuation War. The M44 was adapted to Finnish specifications, primarily using the 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge and utilizing both Suomi and Swedish Carl Gustaf m/45 magazines. Production was limited due to material shortages, with only 10,000 units manufactured out of an initial order for 20,000. A later plan to resume production and replace the Suomi was ultimately shelved when Finland acquired a large surplus of Sten guns in exchange for other firearms.