A Brief History of the PPSh-41 (Pistolet-Pulemyot Shpagina-1941)
During WWII, Russia found itself needing a rapid fire Sub Machinegun (SMG) to counter the pitfalls of what is now known as urban warfare. The Russian leadership wanted a less expensive alternative to the Pistolet-Pulemyot Degtyaryova (PPD-40), which was a close copy of the German Bergman MP-18.
Enter Georgi Semenovich Shpagin. Born in 1897 in the village of Klyuchnikovo to a peasant family, he was called into service around 1916 for the Russian Army and ultimately found his niche as an armorer in an infantry regiment.
During the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40, the Finns had considerable battlefield advantage over Shpagin's Comrades due to their employment of an established machine gun. The Soviet High Command gave immediate order to find a weapon to counter and ultimately turn the tide for the Mother Land.
In early 1940, Shpagin delivered a prototype that was easily manufactured and based on a readily available military cartridge - the Tokarov 7.62x25. After extensive testing the Shpagin prototype stomped the competition and in July of 1941 production began in the face of the rapidly advancing German Army.
The designers at TNW are proud to present the PPSh-41SA. They've manufactured a PPSh-41 Semi-Automatic that Georgii Shpagin would be proud to lend his name to.
This beautiful replica of Soviet Engineering is now available through Military Gun Supply (MGS).
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