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PPSH-41

The PPSh-41 was a Soviet blowback operated sub-machine-gun developed during the Second World War and introduced in 1941, whereupon it became one of the main weapons of the Soviet Infantry. It took a 7.62 mm round from a 71-round drum or 35-round box. It had a cyclic rate of 900 rounds-per-minute and a muzzle velocity of 489 meters-per-second. Although production stopped in 1945, PPSh-41 sub-machine-guns were seen in action in 1977 in Beirut, Lebanon and also in Somalia and Ethiopia.
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