PPD-40
| PPD-40 | |
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| general information | |
| Country of operation: | Soviet Union |
| Developer / Manufacturer: | Wassili Alexejewitsch Degtjarjow / Degtjarjowwerk |
| Manufacturer country: | Soviet Union |
| Production time: | 1935 to 1941 |
| Model variants: | PPD-40 |
| Weapon Category: | Submachine gun |
| Furnishing | |
| Overall length: | 788 mm |
| Weight: (unloaded) | 3.6 kg |
| Barrel length : | 244 mm |
| Technical specifications | |
| Caliber : | 7.62 × 25 mm |
| Possible magazine fillings : | 71 cartridges |
| Ammunition supply : | Drum magazine |
| Cadence : | 800 rounds / min |
| Fire types: | Single, continuous fire |
| Number of trains : | 4th |
| Twist : | right |
| Closure : | Mass closure |
| Charging principle: | Recoil loader |
| Lists on the subject | |
The PPD-40 ( Pistolet-Pulemjot Degtjarjowa ; Russian ППД-40, Пистолет-пулемёт Дегтярёва ) is a Soviet submachine gun with a caliber of 7.62 × 25 mm . The weapon developed by Wassili A. Degtjarjow uses the same bottle neck cartridges as the Tokarev pistol and the later produced submachine guns PPSch-41 and PPS-43 .
history
The development of submachine guns in the Soviet Union was initially slow. For the military command, classic multi-loading rifles were completely sufficient as the army's standard weapon and they saw no reason to force the development of new weapon types. The PPD-34 model developed by Degtjarjow was added to the arsenal, but only produced in small numbers. Most of the specimens were also not used by the Red Army , but by the NKVD or handed over to the border guards. This skeptical attitude changed when Soviet troops were confronted with Finnish Suomi M-31 submachine guns in the 1939-1940 Winter War . Degtjarjow revised the PPD and replaced the bar magazine with a drum magazine .
technology
The PPD is basically similar to the German MP18 . It is a closing blowback loader with a spring-mass lock . Their production in larger numbers was ordered, but they were subjected to several comparative shootings with other Soviet submachine guns. Here, the set PPSh-41 from Georgi Schpagin out as superior. Schpagin's model not only offered a higher hit density, but above all could be produced more efficiently. Thereupon the production of the PPD was given up after about 80,000 copies in favor of the PPSch-41.
The captured weapons of the type PPD-40 used by the Wehrmacht in the German-Soviet War were given the German foreign device number Maschinenpistole 715 (r) .
literature
- Chris McNab: Soviet Submachine Guns of World War II , Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78200-796-8 . (82 pages online PDF)
- Günter Wollert, Reiner Lidschun: Infantry weapons yesterday . (1918-1945). In: Illustrated encyclopedia of infantry weapons from around the world . 3. Edition. tape 2 . Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89488-036-8 , weapons, p. 419-423 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günter Wollert, Reiner Lidschun: infantry weapons yesterday . (1918-1945). In: Illustrated encyclopedia of infantry weapons from around the world . 3. Edition. tape 2 . Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89488-036-8 , weapons, p. 422 .
Web links
- Maxim Popenker: PPD-40. In: Modern Firearms. modernfirearms.net, accessed December 11, 2017 .
- Page with detailed data and facts about the submachine gun 715 (r) on the website of www.wehrmacht-lexikon.de