For All a You WWII and Medieval Weapons Buffs

These photos are from the Vladimir Military Museum.

This is a PPS-43 also called Pistolet-pulemyot Sudaeva or Sudaev's submachine-gun.

The PPS was created in response to a Red Army requirement for a compact and lightweight weapon with similar accuracy and projectile energy to the Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun widely deployed at the time, with reduced rate of fire, produced at lower cost and requiring less manpower, particularly skilled manpower.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPS-43