WW2 Soviet Guns
With retreat never an option under the Stalin regime, Soviet infantry made use of whatever weapons could be acquired.
1927
The Brandt mle 27 mortar served various world powers (in some form or another) throughout the latter portion of the 1920s and...
1918
The M1918 BAR ("Browning Automatic Rifle") was born out of the World War One idea of a single soldier armed with the power of...
1911
The Colt model M1911 series of pistols is one of the most successful small arms designs of the 20th Century - and in all of w...
1928
The DP Light Machine Gun (DP LMG), sometimes known as the DP-27 or DP-28 and nicknamed the "Record Player" due to its unique ...
1943
While the Degtyarev DP series of light machine guns proved a highly serviceable suppression weapon in its position among the ...
1941
The Degtyarev PTRD 1941 (or "PTRD-41", shortened from "Protivo Tankovoye Ruzhyo Degtyaryova") was the most available anti-tan...
1938
The Soviet DShK Model 1938 heavy machine gun was developed to a Red Army requirement prior to World War 2 (1939-1945) to repl...
1915
The F1 served the French Army through World War 1 and World War 2 as a standard anti-personnel fragmentation infantry hand gr...
1939
"F1" is used to designate a variety of hand grenades of modern design and of the 20th century. The Soviet Union used the F1 d...
1942
The American arms industry reached all new heights with its commitment in World War 2. Much of the existing stock of guns wer...
1938
The Thompson series of submachine guns (not quite a pistol yet not a full-fledged machine gun) began life in 1919 following W...
1939
The M1938 120mm mortar was a field mortar system accepted into service with the Red Army in 1939. The weapon system was nothi...
1943
The M1943 (also known as the "MT-13") was a heavy field mortar utilized by the Soviet Army through the latter half of World W...
1896
One of the most recognizable early-form semi-automatic pistols became the Mauser C96 series. The C96 shape was classic with i...
1908
The Maxim MG08 (or "Maschinengewehr 08") was a copy of the original machine gun as developed by Sir Hiram S. Maxim in 1884. H...
1915
The Stielhandgranate was the quintessential hand grenade of the German Army in both World War 1 and World War 2. The type bec...
1900
The Mondragon Rifle is noted as becoming one of the first semi-automatic/full-automatic service rifle to be adopted in quanti...
1891
Like all other world powers of the late-1800s, the Russian Empire sought modernization in its military inventory. This proved...
1938
The MP38 served as the predecessor to the well known MP40 series of mass-produced submachine guns developed by the Germans in...
1940
As the original German Army MP38 submachine gun series proving a success, it was also too expensive for war time production. ...
1943
The Panzerfaust series of hand-held disposable anti-tank rocket systems was a highly-feared adversary to American tank and ve...
1943
The Panzerfaust 60 was a middle-level development of the Panzerfaust 30 and the Panzerfaust 100. The "60" in the Panzerfaust ...
1942
The PIAT Mk I (or Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank Mk I) system was the principle anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade launcher f...
1935
The submachine became a Soviet Army staple in World War 2 when automatic weapons were selected ahead of slower-firing bolt-ac...
1942
The PPS submachine gun was designed by Leningrad engineer A. I. Sudarev in 1942. Leningrad was encircled by the might of the ...
1941
The Soviet Army began experimentation of submachine gun class weapons in the latter half of the 1920s. By the time of World W...
1941
Before the arrival of the various storied American firearms of World War 2 such as the M1 Thompson, M1 Garand and M1 Carbine,...
1940
RPG-40 (ruchnaya protivotankovaya granata, translating to "hand-held tank grenade") was a standard anti-tank hand grenade uti...
1943
In June of 1941, the German Army invaded the Soviet Union through "Operation Barbarossa" beginning the East Front which would...
1941
Simonov produced the PTRS-41 (or "PTRS 1941") anti-tank rifle for the Red Army during World War 2. While allied with Germany ...
1945
The Soviet-produced SKS, or the Samozaryadniy Karabin sistemi Simonova, was the design of Sergei Gavrilovish Simonov and is s...
1931
When World War 2 began in September of 1939, Poland was split into two halves by the victors - the Nazi Germans took the West...
1938
The Tokarev SVT-38 was the beginning of the Tokarev line of self-loading, automatic service rifles. The SVT-38 was developed ...
1940
Small arms ingenuity was an area that the Soviets held something of an advantage in over their German counterpart in the deca...
1930
The Tokarev TT-30 was a semi-automatic pistol, essentially a Soviet copy of a Browning-Colt design, intended to replace the N...
1933
The T-33 was a further development of the TT-30 pistol series which, itself, was based on the designs of famed American gunsm...
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