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Country	Russia
Type	Submachine Gun
Caliber	7.620 mm
Capacity	71 rounds
Length	788 mm
Barrel Length	273 mm
Weight	3.700 kg
Rate of Fire	800 rounds/min
Range	200 m
Muzzle Velocity	489 m/s

Contributor: C. Peter Chen

The Pistolet-Pulemyot Degtyaryova, or PPD, submachine guns were designed by Vasily Degtyaryov in 1934. They first entered service with the Russian Army in 1935 as the PPD-34 submachine gun, with most of them assigned to NKVD border guard units; production of PPD-34 submachine guns was very limited. In 1938, the design was improved to use 71-round drums with long necks; the new design entered production in 1939 as PPD-38, and production was still somewhat limited. During the Winter War between Russia and Finland in the winter of 1939-1940, fighting experience from the front lines led to the definitive design, PPD-40, that divided the stock in two parts to accept newly designed neckless ammunition drums that were more efficient in combat conditions. As production lines geared for the manufacturing of this weapon, it was discovered that mass production would be difficult, thus starting in Nov 1941 the simpler PPSh-41 submachine guns slowly replaced PPD-40 weapons as the new standard submachine guns of Soviet forces.

Source: Wikipedia.

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