PPS-43

PPS-43
general information
Civil name:	Submachine gun Sudayev
Military designation:	PPS-43
Country of operation:	Soviet Union , China , Poland
Developer / Manufacturer:	Alexei Ivanovich Sudayev
Manufacturer country:	Soviet Union
Production time:	1943 to 1945
Model variants:	PPS-43
Weapon Category:	Submachine gun
Furnishing
Overall length:	821 mm
Weight: (unloaded)	3.04 kg
Barrel length :	272 mm
Technical specifications
Caliber :	7.62 × 25 mm DD
Possible magazine fillings :	35 cartridges
Ammunition supply :	Curve magazine
Cadence :	700 rounds / min
Fire types:	Continuous fire
Number of trains :	4th
Twist :	right
Closure :	Mass closure
Charging principle:	Recoil loader
Lists on the subject

The PPS-43 ( Russian 7,62-мм пистолет-пулемёт Судаева образца 1943 , pistolet-pulemjot Sudajewa obrasza 1943 goda , submachine gun Sudajew model 1943) is a Soviet submachine gun in caliber 25 mm TT . The weapon developed by Alexei Ivanovich Sudayev was only set up for continuous fire . It uses the same bottle neck cartridges as the Tokarev pistol and the PPD-40 and PPSch-41 submachine guns . Around 500,000 PPS-43s were produced from 1943 until the end of the war.

construction

Soviet Marines during Operation August Storm with PPScha-41; the officer in the center of the picture is wearing a PPS-43

Sectional drawing

The basis of the development were efforts to further simplify the already optimized production of the PPScha-MPi and also to equip the tank crews with a space-saving weapon. In the previous version, PPS-42 , parts manufactured using the sheet metal stamping process were used , in contrast to the time-consuming and material-intensive machining . As a result, the use of steel was reduced by over 50% compared to the PPScha-41 and the production time by over 60%.

The PPS-43 is an extremely simple and very robustly constructed firing weapon and, at 3.04 kg, is over 500 grams lighter than the previous model PPSch-41. In the interests of reliability, it was fitted with a cam magazine , as the drum magazine of the PPScha-41 tended to jam. Mikhail Kalashnikov described this weapon as the best submachine gun of the Second World War in terms of reliability, light weight, small dimensions and simplicity of construction and operation.

The PPS-43 was manufactured exclusively with a shoulder rest that could be folded up.

License production

From 1946 the PPS-43 was initially manufactured under license in Poland by H. Cegielski in Poznań, the arms factory "Łucznik" Radom and the combine textile machines "Wifama" in Łodz. In 1952 the model 52 (wz. 1943/52) came out, which was equipped with a wooden butt instead of the metal shoulder rest. For this purpose, the end piece of the closure housing was modified to accommodate the piston. From 1955 the version 5.6 mm pm wz. Manufactured in 1943 in caliber .22 lfB as a training weapon.

In the People's Republic of China, the weapon was manufactured as the Type 54.

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  With folded out shoulder rest

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  Magazine, side view

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  Magazine, top view, on the left a magazine of the PPScha-41 for comparison

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  Polish PPS-43 wz. 52 with wooden butt

States of operations

Captured PPS-43s were used by Finland and Germany ( submachine gun 719 (r) ) during the war . The Polish People's Army used the PPS-43 until the 1980s. The Vietnamese army used them during the Vietnam War.

•  Albania
•  Algeria
•  Equatorial Guinea
•  Bulgaria
•  People's Republic of China
• : Use of captured Soviet specimens as a submachine gun 719 (r)
•  Finland : Loot specimens and M / 44 in 9 × 19 Para
•  Guinea
•  Guinea-Bissau : Through the PAIGC in the War of Independence
•  Indonesia
•  Iraq
•  Yemen
•  Cambodia : Khmer Rouge in the Vietnam War .
•  North Korea : Both Soviet PPS-43 and Chinese Type 54
•  Lebanon
•  Monaco
•  Poland
•  Sao Tome and Principe
•  Sierra Leone
•  Soviet Union
• SWAPO : Polish PPS wz. 1943/1952
•  Ukraine : Interior Ministry troops
•  Vietnam : K-50M

literature

• Chris McNab : Soviet Submachine Guns of World War II , Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78200-796-8 . (82 pages online PDF)
• Michael Heidler: Submachine guns 1939–1945: Development - Types - Technology . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-613-04186-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chris McNab: Soviet Submachine Guns of World War II . Osprey Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78200-794-4 , pp. 21 (English).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} PPS-43. weaponsystems.net, accessed January 17, 2014 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} PPS-42 / PPS-43 SMG Submachine Gun (1942). The PPS-42 helped save the people of Leningrad while the PPS-43 became a cheaper production form of the successful submachine gun. militaryfactory.com, June 10, 2013, accessed January 17, 2014 . 
4. ↑ WEAPONS FINNISH ARMY ALMOST HAD IN WORLD WAR 2, PART 2. Pistols and Submachine guns. aegerplatoon.net, accessed January 17, 2014 . 
5. ↑ NORTH KOREA COUNTRY HANDBOOK. (PDF, 5.35MB) APPENDIX A: Equipment Recognition. MARINE CORPS INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITY, May 1997, p. 252 (A-80) , accessed January 17, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Richard Jones: Jane's Infantry Weapons 2009-2010 . Jane's Information Group, 2009, ISBN 0-7106-2869-2 , pp. 902 (English).

Web links

Commons : PPS-43  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• MACHINE PISTOLS, PART 2 :. Captured and bought. aegerplatoon.net, accessed January 17, 2014 (information on Finnish weapons).