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The Soviet Union Adopts an SMG: Degtyarev’s PPD-34/38

October 21, 2022 Ian McCollum 27

The Soviet Union adopted its first submachine gun in 1935 after trials of some 14 different design in 1932/33. The winner of the trials was Vasily Degtyarev, once of the Soviet Union’s most prolific firearms […]

Suppressor

Soviet WW2 Bramit Silencer for the M91/30

August 29, 2022 Ian McCollum 19

The Soviet Union began to take an interest in military suppressors in the early 1930s, and experimented with things like suppressors for the DP light machine gun. Through the 1930s a variety of different designs […]

Bolt Action Rifles

The Original Shorty Mosin: The Model 1907 Carbine

August 22, 2022 Ian McCollum 13

The creation of a short and handy Mosin Nagant carbine to complement the standard M891 was prompted by the Russo-Japanese War. Lots of Russian troops with roles other than infantry – machine gun and artillery […]

Semiauto Rifles

Balanced Recoil AK-107 / Kalashnikov SR-1: Is It Any Good?

August 1, 2022 Ian McCollum 50

One of the really interesting variations on the AK to come out of Russian military development and testing is the balanced-recoil system, as exemplified on the military AK-107 and the commercial Kalashnikov SR-1 rifles. Contrary […]

Heavy MGs

Goryunov SG43: Russia Replaces the Maxim

June 20, 2022 Ian McCollum 14

The Russian M1910 Maxim was clearly obsolete in the 1930s, and the Soviet military developed a replacement for it – the Degtyarev DS-39. These performed well in testing, but several major flaws were revealed when […]

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Commentary

Historical Comparison: Finland’s Winter War vs Russian Invasion of Ukraine

April 21, 2022 Ian McCollum 49

I have been reading about the Winter War in past few months as part of my work on a book about Finnish small arms, and I have been really struck by the similarity in images […]

General Purpose MGs

Ukrainian Adaptation of PKTs to Infantry Use

March 15, 2022 Ian McCollum 30

I have had several people send me this video, showing a Ukrainian shop converting PKT machine guns to an infantry configuration. The PK machine gun is used in a lot of Russian armored vehicles, but […]

Heavy MGs

Soviet DS-39 Heavy Machine Gun at the Range

December 31, 2021 Ian McCollum 13

https://youtu.be/krl3qHGOkgw The DS-39 is an air-cooled heavy machine gun designed by Degtyarev, which was intended to replace the 1910 Maxim as the standard Soviet HMG. It was lighter and more mobile than the Maxim, and […]

Antiques

Adventures in Surplus: An M91 Mosin of Many Flags

December 23, 2021 Ian McCollum 11

Today we are taking a look at an early production M1891 Mosin Nagant rifle. This one has had quite a busy history…it was originally manufactured at the Izhevsk Arsenal in 1894, with several of the […]

Light MGs

Stalin’s Record Player: The DP-27 Light Machine Gun

August 13, 2021 Ian McCollum 26

Despite having early experience with the Madsen LMG prior to World War One, the Soviet military opted to follow the German path of machine gun development after the war. Valuing the sustained firepower of belt-fed […]

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