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.

No Shipping to:

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, Washington D.C.

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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

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.