The most common copies of PPSh and MP-40
After the end of World War II, the most massive examples of small arms weapons remained PPSh and MP-40.
The performance characteristics of PPSh, to which the Soviet soldiers nicknamed "dad", did not depend on environmental conditions, it worked without problems even if dust, dirt and ice got into it. This cheap and convenient submachine gun was easily given even to poorly educated and technically illiterate soldiers.
MP-40, developed by Heinrich Volmer and armed with the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, of course, could not boast the same reliability as the PCA. Meanwhile, he had his own advantages, such as compactness, ease of operation, relatively low rate of fire, good controllability of weapons, and relatively low cost of production.
All these advantages of PPSh and MP-40 could not go unnoticed by weapon designers in other countries. After the war, these types of weapons began to be actively copied.
Writer, historian Andrei Ulanov and historical weapons expert Nikolai Sobolev will talk about stories the most common post-war clones of submachine guns PPSh and MP-40. They will present the Hotchkiss Universal submachine gun, developed in 1949 by the French arms company Societe des Armes a Feu Portatives Hotchkiss et Cie, the Belgian Vigneron M2 submachine gun (Vigneron), the Yugoslav Zastava M49 and the Chinese Type 50 based on Soviet PPSh-41.
The performance characteristics of PPSh, to which the Soviet soldiers nicknamed "dad", did not depend on environmental conditions, it worked without problems even if dust, dirt and ice got into it. This cheap and convenient submachine gun was easily given even to poorly educated and technically illiterate soldiers.
MP-40, developed by Heinrich Volmer and armed with the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, of course, could not boast the same reliability as the PCA. Meanwhile, he had his own advantages, such as compactness, ease of operation, relatively low rate of fire, good controllability of weapons, and relatively low cost of production.
All these advantages of PPSh and MP-40 could not go unnoticed by weapon designers in other countries. After the war, these types of weapons began to be actively copied.
Writer, historian Andrei Ulanov and historical weapons expert Nikolai Sobolev will talk about stories the most common post-war clones of submachine guns PPSh and MP-40. They will present the Hotchkiss Universal submachine gun, developed in 1949 by the French arms company Societe des Armes a Feu Portatives Hotchkiss et Cie, the Belgian Vigneron M2 submachine gun (Vigneron), the Yugoslav Zastava M49 and the Chinese Type 50 based on Soviet PPSh-41.
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