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7/14/2025, 3:50:11 PM
>>63982721
The PPSh-41 had genuine production problems, but assuming you had a set of drums matched to your gun, and your ammo hasn't been dug up out of an old mire or something, it should do exactly what it's expected to do.
Since those drums didn't interchange freely between individual guns, the smaller 35rd sticks was relied on more later, and generally they would work reliably in most guns, but 35rds is a bit little when you're looking at such a blistering bullethose, so that's not great.
The slightly later PPS-43 did not have cool drums, but it had a slow and steady rate of fire, a folding stock (90% copied from the German MP40), extremely consistent and reliable 35rd mags, and was a rather inexpensive, easy, and fast gun to put together. The PPS-43 was arguably the best subgun of WW2, for being able to match such good economy and ease of production with strong reliability.
Compare to say, the Sten, which was also cheap and quick to make, but uh, could have been a little better in some ways.
The design of the PPS-43 is particularly impressive for how Sudayev worked within the generally lower technological capabilities of wider Soviet Russia at the time. The sheet metal parts of the gun aren't really stampings as you would think for the Stg-44 or AKM, rather they're simpler cut out pressings shaped on mandrels, which was something Russian industry at the time could easily achieve consistently and reliably, and for less cost and time than the PPSh-41.
It's like the Eastern counterpart to the American Greasegun.
The PPSh-41 had genuine production problems, but assuming you had a set of drums matched to your gun, and your ammo hasn't been dug up out of an old mire or something, it should do exactly what it's expected to do.
Since those drums didn't interchange freely between individual guns, the smaller 35rd sticks was relied on more later, and generally they would work reliably in most guns, but 35rds is a bit little when you're looking at such a blistering bullethose, so that's not great.
The slightly later PPS-43 did not have cool drums, but it had a slow and steady rate of fire, a folding stock (90% copied from the German MP40), extremely consistent and reliable 35rd mags, and was a rather inexpensive, easy, and fast gun to put together. The PPS-43 was arguably the best subgun of WW2, for being able to match such good economy and ease of production with strong reliability.
Compare to say, the Sten, which was also cheap and quick to make, but uh, could have been a little better in some ways.
The design of the PPS-43 is particularly impressive for how Sudayev worked within the generally lower technological capabilities of wider Soviet Russia at the time. The sheet metal parts of the gun aren't really stampings as you would think for the Stg-44 or AKM, rather they're simpler cut out pressings shaped on mandrels, which was something Russian industry at the time could easily achieve consistently and reliably, and for less cost and time than the PPSh-41.
It's like the Eastern counterpart to the American Greasegun.
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