Description

Made from original Russian blueprints.
Made from .075″ 1018 cold rolled steel.
Will work with a PPS43 and PPS43/52

NO FFL or paperwork is required.

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Background

 

During design, emphasis was placed on simplifying production and eliminating most machining operations; most of the weapon’s parts were stamped sheet metal. These measures reduced the number of machined components to a bare minimum, cutting down machining time by more than half, to 2.7 hours of machining instead of 7.3 hours for the PPSh-41. There were also savings of over 50% in raw steel usage, down to 6.2 kg instead of 13.9 kg, and fewer workers were required to manufacture and assemble the parts. Thanks to the improvements in production efficiency, the Soviet planners estimated that the new gun would have allowed an increase in monthly submachine gun output from 135,000 units to 350,000 weapons.

 

Technical Information

 

Designer	I. K. Bezruchko-Vysotsky and A. I. Sudayev
Designed	1942
Produced	1942–1946 (USSR)
No. built	~2 million (USSR)
Variants	PPS-42, PPS-43, M/44, PPS wz. 1943/1952, Type 43
Specifications
Mass	PPS-42: 2.95 kg (6.50 lb)
`	3.04 kg (6.7 lb)
Length	PPS-42: 907 mm (35.7 in) stock extended / 641 mm (25.2 in) stock folded
PPS-43:	820 mm (32.3 in) stock extended / 615 mm (24.2 in) stock folded
Barrel length	PPS-42: 273 mm (10.7 in)
Cartridge	7.62×25mm Tokarev
Action	Blowback, open bolt
Rate of fire	500–600 rounds/min (cyclic rate)
Muzzle velocity	Approx. 500 m/s (1,640 ft/s)
Effective firing range	100–150 m[1][2]
Maximum firing range	200 m
Feed system	35-round detachable box magazine
Sights	Flip rear sight, fixed blade front sight

 

Variants:

• Soviet Union
  • PPS-42
  • PPS-43
• Finland M/44 submachine gun.
• Poland Between 1946 and 1955
  • PPS wz. 43: the PPS-43 which was license-produced from 1946
  • PPS wz. 43/52: pps43 with a fixed wood stock
• China– Type 54, license-produced version of PPS-43
• West Germany– In 1953, the border guards (Bundesgrenzschutz) adopted the Spanish-made DUX-53 and DUX-59 submachine guns, copied from the PPS-43 by way of the Finnish M/44.
• Vietnam – K-50M also borrowed elements from the PPS design
• Hungary – in the 1950s Hungary combined basic features of the PPS-43 with the bolt safety of the PPSh-41 in the unsuccessful M53.