The PPSh-41 (Pistolet-Pulemyot Shpagina; Russian: Пистолет-пулемёт Шпагина; Shpagin machine pistol); is a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgi Shpagin as an inexpensive simplified alternative to the PPD-40. Common nicknames are Pe-Pe-Sha from its three-letter prefix and Papasha (Russian: папаша) meaning daddy. The PPSh was a magazine-fed selective fire submachine gun using an open-bolt blowback action.
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length (km)
0.843
weight (kg)
3630.0
origin
Soviet Union
type
Submachine gun
used in war
Korean War, Sino-Indian War, Chinese Civil War, Vietnam War, World War II, Rhodesian Bush War, Portuguese Colonial War, Iraq War, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cambodian Civil War, Hungarian Revolution of 1956
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