In 1941, when Operation Barbarossa had just been launched, this was actually a very embarrassing era for the Soviet army's small arms and equipment.
During this year, the Shappsh-41 submachine gun, which had just been finalized and put into production, was still in the trial production stage. The scarce production of less than a hundred units was only used to test whether the sample gun was qualified and met the design specifications. For large-scale
The level of mass production to equip frontline troops is still far from enough, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a blank check in 1941.
As the predecessor of the sand submachine gun, it is the German ppd-40 submachine gun. This type of submachine gun with acceptable performance did not attract enough attention before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, and the production cost was high due to the high cost of the manufacturing process.
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The production of just over 5,000 units in 1941 was a drop in the bucket for the huge number of millions of Red Army troops on the entire front-line battlefield.
This also includes a considerable number of priority supply orders for the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs troops and high-level security forces. It is natural to imagine that the remaining number of submachine guns of this type that can be distributed to the front-line troops after layers of reductions cannot satisfy the front-line troops.
The actual need to counter the large number of P8/40 submachine guns equipped by the German army.
As a future time traveler, Malashenko is very aware of the importance of fully automatic weapons in modern warfare.
A fully automatic water-splashing rifle that keeps the trigger pressed is far better than a bolt-action rifle that emphasizes accuracy, range and single-shot power.
During the Pacific War, the Japanese army always emphasized precise shooting and "annihilating the enemy with every bullet." With its excellent individual combat qualities and extremely accurate Type 38 rifles in the early stages of the war, the Japanese army was regarded as the most accurate rifleman in the world at that time.
A model army for shooting, the early Japanese army was unrivaled in precision rifle shooting and has always been proud of it.
But such an infantry army, whose marksmanship is incredible and which values individual precision shooting skills, was defeated by the US military who only wanted full-automatic firepower and water-spraying shooting while forgetting about the hit rate of single-shot shooting during the Pacific Island Operations.
The rat scurried away with its head in its hands, complaining endlessly.
The Type 38 rifle, which has extremely excellent shooting accuracy, will not even burn a single fire when faced with the Thompson submachine gun, Garand semi-automatic rifle, 1a1 carbine and other firearms with fully automatic and semi-automatic firepower that can fire continuously in the hands of the US military.
Not as good as a stick.
The Japanese army was so suppressed by firepower that they could not even lift their heads. Not to mention leaning forward to accurately aim and shoot, they were lucky not to be sieved by the dense small-arms firepower network of the US military. At the end of the war, the Japanese army realized the superiority of fully automatic weapons.
, finally began to trial-produce Japanese-made automatic weapons and equipment such as hundreds of submachine guns in an attempt to save the situation, but in the end it was too late and it did not help.
On the Soviet-German battlefield in 1941, the Soviet army, which had a serious lack of individual light weapons firepower and was far inferior to the firepower configuration of the German infantry squad, basically faced the same bad situation as the Japanese army.
German submachine guns, whose production was so scarce that they were almost non-existent, were in short supply after the outbreak of the war. The Soviet infantry squads, which only had Mosin-Nagant rifles and DP light machine guns as the main light weapons of the squad, had the firepower of the German infantry squads equipped with a large number of P series submachine guns.
The output capabilities are not at the same level at all.
Being completely suppressed by the automatic firepower of the German infantry squad in actual combat was the most realistic portrayal of the Soviet infantry in 1941. This situation was not achieved until 1942 when the Shisha submachine gun was officially finalized and put into production and equipped with front-line troops in massive quantities.
Fundamental changes.
Although Malashenko and his troops were both under the Soviet Red Army organization, although they were tank troops, the Soviet army's lack of automatic firepower in small arms still seriously troubled Malashenko.
In actual combat, the demand for self-defense automatic weapons was particularly serious for Soviet tank crews whose vehicles were destroyed or paralyzed, or who had to dismount their entire vehicle to perform rescue and certain on-foot missions.
The Soviet tank crews who lacked decent automatic weapons most of the time used pistols to barely defend themselves. The large and slender Mosin Nagant and DP light machine guns were simply inconvenient to take out in the narrow tank space. It was extremely difficult.
Lame.
Throughout the early stages of the war in 1941, the Soviet army was in the stage of retreat. Almost every time, it was the side that took the initiative to retreat. The Soviet tank crews, unable to control the post-war battlefield, had no hope of cleaning the battlefield and picking up German submachine guns for use.
In contrast, the German tank crews who have P series submachine guns as self-defense weapons can be said to have taken advantage.
Malashenko, who has always been troubled by the self-defense weapons of his crew, always thinks that if he has the opportunity, he must get a batch of German submachine guns to solve the urgent needs of his crew, and now this one has been captured.
The German logistics baggage convoy is undoubtedly a surprise gift delivered to your door.
Malashenko, who led all four of his crew, quickly arrived at the last vehicle of the German truck convoy, eager to confirm whether Clauseheim's words were true.
Ke, immediately stepped forward and reached out to lift up the canvas covering the outside of the truck compartment. Boxes of neatly stacked German standard small arms appeared in front of the group of people in a brand new and unopened state.
Without saying a word, he pulled out a crowbar that had been placed there from the end of the truck compartment next to him. Malashenko, who held it tightly in his hand, immediately gave it a hard blow and then inserted it into the weapon in front of him.
Push hard into the wooden box.
Kaga——
A slightly harsh sound of opening the lid of the wooden box followed the force movement of Malashenko's hand, and a handful of brand-new G4 general-purpose machine guns tightly wrapped in oil paper were immediately presented in front of the group of people.
"It's a pity to have a whole box of machine guns, we don't need these things"
Malashenko, who was not very interested in the G4 general-purpose machine gun that could not be used as a self-defense weapon, immediately picked up the crowbar again and prepared to open the next wooden box to continue looking for what he wanted.
Kirill, Seryosha and the other crew members who had never seen such brand-new German weapons suddenly became curious. One by one, they took out these brand-new G4 general-purpose machine guns from the wooden box and tore them open.
The oil paper bag on it was removed, and the dark and shiny gun body exposed in the sun was like a beauty from a foreign country, which fascinated these Red Army soldiers.
"These guns made by the Germans are really good! Kirill. Look, they are much better than our old and thick Mosin Nagants!"
"But these guys are too big for us. I feel like you can jam the tank hatch cover if you hold the flat end of it in your hand, although this thing is indeed very light."
Turning a deaf ear to the conversations of his subordinates, Malashenko, who was walking in the carriage, chose a wooden box that he thought would bring good luck like a random lottery, but after the crowbar was removed,
But what was presented in front of him shocked him on the spot.