The 7.62 mm submachine gun of the 1941 model of the Shpagin system (PPSh) is a Soviet submachine gun developed in 1940 by designer GS Shpagin for a 7.62 × 25 mm TT cartridge and adopted for service by the Red Army on December 21, 1940 year [1]. PPSh along with PPS-43 was the main submachine gun of the Soviet Armed Forces in the Great Patriotic War. After the end of the war, by the mid-1960s, the PPSh was removed from the armament of the Soviet Army and was gradually replaced with a Kalashnikov rifle, a little longer it remained in service with rear and auxiliary units, units of internal troops and railway troops, until the collapse of the USSR in 1991 [ source is not specified 611 days] In the armament of units of paramilitary security and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of a number of CIS countries is and still is. -link removed-
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