Key facts
- Type
- Submachine gun
- Place of origin
- Soviet Union
- In service
- 1942–1960s (USSR), 1942–present (other countries)
- Used by
- See Users
- Wars
- World War II , Chinese Civil War , Korean War , First Indochina War , Bay of Pigs Invasion , Vietnam War , Cambodian Civil War , Laotian Civil War , Portuguese Colonial War , Liberian Civil Wars , Rhodesian Bush War , Namibian War of Independence , Russo-Ukrainian War
- Designer
- I. K. Bezruchko-Vysotsky and A. I. Sudayev
- Produced
- 1942–1946 (USSR only) 1946-1970s (Poland)
- Number span no built
- ~2 million (USSR)
- Variants
- PPS-42, PPS-43, M/44, PPS wz. 1943/1952, Type 43
- Mass
- PPS-42: 2.95 kg (6.50 lb), PPS-43: 3.04 kg (6.7 lb)
- Length
- PPS-42: 907 mm (35.7 in) stock extended / 641 mm (25.2 in) stock folded, PPS-43: 820 mm (32.3 in) stock extended / 615 mm (24.2 in) stock folded
- Barrel length
- PPS-42: 273 mm (10.7 in), PPS-43: 243 mm (9.6 in)
- Cartridge
- 7.62×25mm Tokarev
- Action
- Blowback , open bolt
- Rate of fire
- 500–600 rounds/min (cyclic rate)
- Muzzle velocity
- Approx. 500 m/s (1,640 ft/s)
- Effective firing range
- 100–150 m
- Maximum firing range
- 200 m
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- submachine gun
- Named after
- Aleksei Sudaev
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Designed by
- Aleksei Sudaev
- Conflict
- Soviet-Afghan War
- Image
- PPS-43 Soviet 7.62 mm submachine gun.jpg
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- ammunition
- 7.62×25mm Tokarev
- Commons category
- PPS-43
- service entry
- 1942-01-01
- service retirement
- 1960-01-01
- Commons gallery
- PPS-43
- different from
- PPS
- native label
- Пистолет-пулемёт Судаева
- inception
- 1942-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The PPS-43 (Russian: ППС – "Пистолет-пулемёт Судаева" or "Pistolet-pulemyot Sudayeva", in English: "Sudayev's submachine-gun") is a family of Soviet submachine guns chambered in 7.62×25mm Tokarev, developed by Alexei Sudayev as a low-cost personal defense weapon for reconnaissance units, vehicle crews and support service personnel.
The PPS and its variants were used extensively by the Red Army during World War II and were later adopted by the armed forces of several countries of the former Warsaw Pact as well as its many African and Asian allies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “PPS submachine gun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.