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Variety of weapons inclusive with a good pile of Pineapples, what type of SMG is that one certainly not a grease gun.
However they certainly have a good view of the terrain one may think it is an O.P.
Chineese type 50 smg?
PPS 43 very likely Russian as if I remember correctly the Chinese designation was the Type 54 and I believe they didn't start making them until 1954.
The troops...fiddlin' with an enemy weapon that was recovered by one of the guys after the last attack...that doesn't change.
Never hurts to understand how the other sides weapons work, for instance my b/inlaw went back to VN for closure he went to a place where they let you shoot a variety of weapons the chap was most impressed on how my b/inlaw knew instinctively how to handle the AK and the 1911 and commented on it to my b/inlaw to which he replied "Last time I was here I wasn't a tourist........!"
When he went there they issued him with an Owen but took that from him and gave him an F-1 which he said rusted very well and was a POS he swapped that for an L2A1 for the remainder of his tour.
That's not a nice to know or should know or could know...It's a MUST know... You never know when you'll be reduced to using that.Quote:
Originally Posted by CINDERS
Exactly
Interesting to note the M2/M1 Carbine hasn't been fitted with a bayonet bar yet in that pic.
I thought the same thing, but if you look close you'll see it.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrclark303
You're quite right ... now I look, I can see it. Is it an M2 with a fun switch, or an M1 with a 30 rd mag, I don't suppose you can tell, the switch is just too small.
Don't know what you guys are talking about...it's got the auto selector and bayonet lug, pot belly stock...would suspect it's a proper M2. I had one years back that was among the first made in 5/45 by Inland so why would a correct M2 in Korea be strange?Quote:
Originally Posted by mrclark303
There has always been a dispute as to which was the better close-quarter small arm of the Korean War: the Soviet designed PPSH 41 or the US M2 carbine. As both these
weapons were predominant in issued over other types such as the M3 grease gun (The Thompson might have seen more use by the Chinese)
The PPsh 41 with the round mag had 71 rounds the stick mag held 35 ROF 900-1000RPM effective range was 125-150M Max range 200-250 whilst the M-2 was limited to 15 or 30 round mags ROF 750RPM with an effective range of 270M so good for the M-2 if your fighting in a fairly open space but in say an urban/thick cover area then the PPsh spray and pray with a drum mag would certainly hold the edge with 71 rounds over 6 Million of them were made and used extensively by the USSR in WWII which they sometimes equipped entire companies with them giving massive fire power for close in fighting.