Tactical PPSh: One Old, One New

Posted June 19, 2012 in NFA / Suppressors / Class III, Rifles by Steve Johnson with 63 Comments
Tags: machine guns, ppsh, rifles, strange guns, tactical

I think this is an old photo, and I may have blogged it before, but it is no less awesome, so I am blogging it again …

Interestingly, the Soviets tried making the PPSh tacti-cool way back during WWII.

This 1943 vintage PPSh has a primitive Gen-0 night vision scoped mounted above the receiver. Unlike the German system which had a unwieldy IR spotlight mounted above the scope, this night vision device only worked if the target was illuminated with a IR floodlight.

[ Many thanks to Jarod for emailing us the link. ]

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