Description
A pouch made of coarse tarpaulin with long loops for the waist belt. Lid with leather strap on steel buckle.
PPSh drum magazine in the photo is shown for demonstration only, the drum is not for sale.
Historical reference.
The PPSh (Shpagin submachine gun) became a symbol of the Soviet soldier during World War II, just as the MP-40 (submachine gun designed by Heinrich Volmer) is associated with the Wehrmacht soldier. During the years of World War II, about 6 million PPSh were produced. By the end of the war, about 55% of the Red Army soldiers were armed with this submachine gun.
PPSh was supplied to equip not only soldiers of the Red Army. In addition, PPSh was supplied to Soviet partisans, allies, and NKVD units. Captured PPSh under the name Maschinenpistole 717 (r) after some modifications were used by Wehrmacht and SS soldiers.
After the Second World War, PPSh was supplied to different countries and was massively used in wars throughout the second half of the 20th century. While the Red Army removed the PPSh from service by the mid-1960s and gradually replaced it with the Kalashnikov assault rifle.
The pouch for the PPSh disk magazine was put into service on April 11, 1940. They were made mainly of fabric, although there were also leather products. During the war there were some changes in tailoring patterns. Early models of the pouch had metal rings on the back wall, on the later model, in order to reduce the cost, only fabric loops were left for fastening to a belt.
Sources:ru.wikipedia.org, zen.yandex.ru
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