First of all, I didn't look at the plot very carefully when I watched this movie, basically just looking at the gun battle, so I may not remember the names of the people.
The Red Army used the TT-33 pistol
The only pistol that has appeared in this film is the Soviet-made TT-33 pistol, which I personally do not like very much, whether it is appearance or performance, there is nothing that attracts me.
PPSH-41 submachine gun
The main weapon of the Soviet Red Army in this film, the PPSH-41 submachine gun, has a very detailed restoration in the film, that is, the submachine guns appearing in this film are all early PPSH-41 produced in 1941
Early Type PPSH-41
One of the most prominent identifying features of the early PPSH-41 submachine gun is that it uses a mechanical sight similar to a rifle, and the late version of the PPSH-41 that truly uses a simple V-notch machine sight did not begin production until 1942.
In the early days of the Soviet-German war, the Soviets actually did not have so many submachine guns, the entire PPSH-41 early model, from production to production, the annual output in 1941 was only more than 90,000, and counting the early Days of Operation Barbarossa, so many Soviets were surrounded and annihilated, and the loss of PPSH-41 was also very large, so the Soviets during the Moscow Defense War were not as many people as we remembered.
PPD-40 submachine gun
The PPD-40 submachine gun was another major Soviet submachine gun in the early days of the Soviet-German War, using a 71-round drum to feed, and I personally think that the PPD-40 is much more beautiful than the PPSH-41.
PPD-40 submachine gun using a ruler mechanical sight, I personally have said many times in the previous gun article, submachine gun on the ruler half a cent is useless, 7.62x25mm Tokarev pistol bullet can hit two hundred meters?
Because the gun is manufactured by a sophisticated milling process, and there are operations such as chrome plating of the barrel, the gun actually has a high production man-hour, the manufacturing is also very complicated, and the price is also very expensive.
However, in the movie, the protagonist group, as an elite squad with special tasks, has several such expensive submachine guns as a firepower supplement.
German armored soldiers used MP40 submachine guns
As a Russian war film, there is a rare detail in this film that the Germans are finally no longer the strange image of mp40s in every hand.
The German Army uses the MP40
The Germans lacked submachine guns in World War II, and most of the MP40 and MP38 submachine guns were assigned to tank crew members. (Yes, the MP38 and MP40 were first born for the self-defense of tank crew members.)
The Red Army used mp40
In 1941, Germany invested 3.8 million troops in the Soviet Union alone, and the total output of MP40 submachine guns from 1940 to 1945 was only 1.03 million, which did not include the German garrison in the Occupied Areas of Europe and the African battlefield, counting more people, so the German infantry was very short of submachine guns in World War II.
Mosin Nagant M1891/30 rifle
The gun was first produced in 1927, mainly based on the Soviet government's improved model of the old Mosin Nagant M1891 left by Tsarist Russia during World War I, and the most prominent identification feature was the front plane aiming at the star guard.
In addition, the Mosin Nagant M1891/30 rifle was shorter and lighter than the M1891 of the First World War of Tsarist Russia.
The Mosin Nagant M1891 used by Tsarist Russia during World War I was 1306 mm long, 1738 mm long when equipped with bayonets, 800 mm long barrel, and 4.22 kg.
The Soviet 1927 improved Mosin Nagant M1891/30 rifle, with a full gun length of 1234 mm, a total length of 1666 mm after the addition of a bayonet, a barrel length of 730 mm, and a total gun weight of 3.8 kg.
The Mosin Nagant M1891/30 rifle participated in countless classic wars, whether it was the just anti-fascist Patriotic War, or the Soviet-Japanese conflict, and was also supported by China to fight against Japanese imperialism, during the Period of The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the North Korean Army and the Volunteer Army also had a considerable number of Mosin Nagant M1891/30 rifles, and the North Vietnamese guerrillas during the Vietnam War also possessed a considerable number of the gun, which can still be seen on the battlefields of the Middle East.
But the gun also participated in some unjust wars, such as the Soviet-Finnish War, the invasion of the Baltic states, etc., but no matter how much the Soviet Union contributed to the anti-fascism in World War II, it could not change the fact that the Soviet Union itself was also an evil empire.
Mosin Nagant M1891 Dragoon
The film also features a Mosin Nagant M1891 Dragoon, which translates to mosin Nagant M1891 dragoon.
The gun was first produced in 1910 and, as the name suggests, was mainly distributed to cavalry units.
Mosin Nagant M1891 Dragoon type
The Mosin Nagant M1891 Dragoon type was 1234 mm long, weighed about 3.9 kg and had a barrel length of 730 mm. I don't quite understand why the elite Soviet squad in this film would use such a World War I vintage.
The Mosin Nagant M1891 Dragoon was completely discontinued in 1932.
SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle
The Red Army squad was also equipped with a small number of SVT-40 semi-automatic rifles, which is reasonable, and should have been used mainly by the elite Infantry of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Due to space limitations, I will not talk about this gun in detail, but I will definitely publish an article about this gun in the future.
In fact, the design and maintenance of the gun are far simpler than the two G41s of the Germans of the same period, and even simpler than the later G43, and the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle is worthy of being one of the best semi-automatic rifles in World War II.
In fact, long before the Soviet-German war, the Soviets tried to completely replace the Mosin Nagant series with the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle, but this plan was disrupted by the German Barbarossa plan.
SVT-40 with M1891/30
But I personally think that there is another most important reason is the Soviet soldiers lazy, SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle although compared to the Germans in the same period G41M and G41W dismantling and maintenance is simpler, but most of the Soviet ordinary infantry is not highly literate, and also very lazy, unwilling to spend more time to maintain this gun.
The quality of its own soldiers was too poor, coupled with the German invasion, so the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle did not fully replace the Mosin Nagant rifle, but the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle in the hands of elite Soviet infantry, such as the Soviet Red Navy and Soviet airborne troops, the evaluation was very good, and the Germans also particularly liked to use the captured gun.
(In the early stages of the war, the quality of the German soldiers was very good, the cultural literacy of the grass-roots soldiers was also 18,000 miles higher than that of the Soviet soldiers, plus the Germans were willing to spend more time maintaining this gun, the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle was very good in maintenance and maintenance, the performance and reliability were very good, so the Germans' love for the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle in World War II exceeded their own G41M and G41W)
Carabiner 98k
The Karabiner 98k featured in this film is an early German version of the 98K produced before the war, and its main feature is the use of walnut as the main wood for the body and stock of the gun.
Anyone who makes furniture or has done other carpentry work knows that walnut is very expensive and certainly not suitable for large-scale war production.
There is also a major feature is that the early version of the Karabiner 98k produced before the war did not have a crosshair guard, and after the war began, the Germans found that not pretending to be a crosshair guard was easy to lead to virtual light, and the trigger guard of the early Karabiner 98k, the magazine bottom plate, were made of metal milling process.
The picture above is the Karabiner 98k carbine produced by the Germans in 1937, although walnut is not suitable as a material for weapons of war, it can still be seen that the early Karabiner 98k produced before the war is very beautiful and exquisite, and it is my personal favorite Karabiner 98k model.
The Germans used the Czech VZ.16/33 carbine
The gun was a Czech-made weapon that, after the German occupation of the Czech Republic, captured a large number of VZ.16/33 carbines and continued to produce them for some time, naming it Gewehr 33/40(t), of which t represented capture from the Czech Republic.
Rifle 33/40(t)
The upper one is the Czech-originating VZ.16/33 carbine, and the lower one is the Gewehr 33/40(t) carbine produced after the German occupation of the Czech Republic, it can be seen that the German-produced Gewehr 33/40(t) has changed in the details of the strap and the muzzle machine aim, the original Czech VZ.16/33 carbine uses the Czech rifle's unique mountain-shaped front machine aiming star, but the German-produced Gewehr 33/40(t) The forehand targeting star was changed to the same front-machine targeting star as its own wartime standard 98K.
(This gun was your initial weapon at the Battle of Moscow in Enlisted.)
Maxim M1910 Simplified Version
At first, when I watched this film, I thought it was a Maxim M1905, but then I looked at the bolt details and I found that it was actually a simplified Maxim M1910.
This simplified version is actually not simplified to any extent, the bolt and receiver body and other details have not been touched, the main simplification is on the water cooling sleeve.
The original Maxim M1910's water-cooled sleeve had a cooling groove on the outside, but the Simplified Version of maxim M1910 removed this cooling groove, and there were no other changes at first.
But I want to ask, in 1941, why did the Soviets still play with canvas elastic chains, canvas elastic chains are very unreliable.
DP-27 light machine gun
The DP-27 light machine gun is also a classic Soviet gun, but it is said that our volunteer soldiers do not evaluate this gun as well as the improved version of DPM.
MG34 general purpose machine gun
Although it didn't give me a front or side close-up, the MG34 universal machine gun is so famous that I know it.
PTRD-41 anti-tank gun
The 14.5x114mm large-caliber bullet fired by the PRD-41 in this film looks handsome and mighty, but it is limited to looks.
The film's PTRD-41 anti-tank gun, except for hitting the observation window and killing a Panzer IV pilot, spent the rest of the time scratching the German Panzer IV.
PTRD-41
After the development of medium tanks, anti-tank guns are immediately obsolete, can only bully light tanks and light armored vehicles, use anti-tank guns to hit medium tanks is to find death, not everyone can hit such a small observation window.
RGD-33与RGD-40
These two grenades were placed together like brothers, hahaha happy me.
RGD-33
Several RGD-33 explosions are tied together in this film, leaving only one handle, and the anti-tank grenades made by the principle of explosive martyrdom are a hundred times more useful than the anti-tank guns in this film.
RG-14/30
The film also features the RG-14/30 grenade, which is a World War I antiquity, before the RGD-33 was installed, the RG-14/30 has always been the main grenade of the Soviet Red Army, and was also used in large quantities in Tsarist Russia during World War I, and was also used by both red and white during the Civil War, but unfortunately this thing is rare now.
Molotov cocktail
The film's use of Molotov cocktails is correct, like in some movies and games, the bottle mouth is tied with cloth strips are obscene.
53-K anti-aircraft gun
The M1937 type 45 mm anti-tank gun in this film, also known as the 53-K type combat gun, is the real anti-tank intermediate main force.