How a PPSH 41 Works ( World of Guns)

World Of Guns on PC. Wikipedia: The PPSh41 is a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgy Shpagin as a cheap, reliable, and simplified alternative to the PPD40. A common Russian nickname for the weapon is papasha (Russian: папаша), meaning daddy, and during the Second World War, it was sometimes called the burp gun by German soldiers. The PPSh is a magazinefed selective fire submachine gun using an open bolt, blowback action. Made largely of stamped steel, it can be loaded with either a box or drum magazine and fires the 7. 6225mm Tokarev pistol round. The PPSh saw extensive combat use during World War II and the Korean War. It was one of the major infantry weapons of the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II, with about six million PPSh41s manufactured in this period. In the form of the Chinese Type 50 (licensed copy), it was still being used by the Viet Cong as late as 1970. According to the 2002 edition of the Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II t