The promised continuation on PPSh, from the same author, who wrote about "Maxim" by our subscriber and a very cool photography expert.
Epigraph:... Say a word about the poor hussar (PPSh)...
So, ladies and gentlemen, with your permission I will continue with my permitted speeches. Today we will talk about a weapon as famous as it is forgotten - the PPSh. Forgotten and distorted to the point that the few who actually know about it, and even fewer who know how to cook it, not only have bloodshot eyes, but I don't know what.
short trip NSD on PPSh, last published in the 1955-1956 edition. Since then, no one saw the need for a reissue - in the second half of the 1950s, in combat units, the PPSh and the three in the SKS - AK - RPD complex had already been completely replaced. From that moment there was no need to teach the subject from the military point of view. Moreover, by the end of the 1950s, the PPSh available in the forces were reduced to scrap or overhaul status in the arsenal, where the remains were melted down. In general, for reference, and in a number of units, so to speak, not of the first class, they were still found in gun shops until the end of the 60s.
In particular, my father found them still studying in 1959. Despite the fact that he actually already served in AK. At the same time, metamorphoses occurred with the NSD itself on the subject during this period. Thus, according to the NSD of 1946, the permissible accuracy of 4 shots was estimated at 20 cm at 100 meters. And according to the NSD 1955... 20 cm in 50 meters. And actually checking the accuracy, no longer at 100 but at 50 meters. Do you know of at least one weapon whose requirements were suddenly cut in half in 10 years? I'm not. Well, naturally, when I saw such an "accurate" weapon, worn and causing a fair amount of delay, almost no one would be in awe of it.
Well, fully officially, a weapon of victory, yes but the AK is new, beautiful, shoots farther, more accurate, more powerful. a nose
What is the reason for such reductions in requirements, to say the least?! It's elementary.