Editing Red Army Equipment (section)

===Rifles and SMGs===
[[image:Mosin_Nagant_189130.jpeg|thumb|300px|right|The Moist Nugget]]
* '''Mosin-Nagant''': The average Soviet soldier in World War II was armed with a Mosin Nagant bolt action rifle. A time tested design that had been in service for half a century at that point through World War I and two revolutions (and subsequent Civil War) with a few tweaks. It was a bare bones five-shot gun, but was cheap to make, simple to service, robust and reliable and could put a 7.62×54mmR round through a Nazi at ranges up to 800 meters.
* '''SVT-40''': The Soviets intended to replace the Mosin with the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle earlier in the 1940s. It was a good rifle, but what held it back was that it was too fragile for the dumbfuck farmers that were using them, and more importantly it cost too much to try and produce during a war in numbers required. Still, more than 1.5 million were made. It was at least on par with the Gewehr 43 (which had systems copied from it), and better than the Gewehr 41, interestingly enough. The Soviets continued to work on the idea of semi-auto rifles and soon after the war introduced the SKS. The SKS was expected to become the rifle component of the AK-47's planned SMG status while sharing the shortened intermediate round with the AK, but upon realizing the AK outclassed it in all ways except simplicitiy the SKS mainly became a ceremonial and export weapon.
* '''Winchester Model 1895''': Yes, a goddamn lever-action rifle. In WWII. In Russia. The Russian Empire had procured a large quantity of them in WWI to make up for shortages of Mosin-Nagant rifles, and the Soviets still had some around for the Winter War. Unlike the vast majority of lever-actions, the Model 1895 was adapted to use stripper clips of 7.62x54mmR, to simplify logistical concerns and overall useability.
* '''Fedorov Avtomat''': a WWI automatic rifle issued in limited numbers early in the war to make up for the lack of infantry-portable automatic weapons, and mostly saw action in the Finnish front where they were used up or destroyed. The Federov was a novel experiment cooked up during the great war and was arguably the first Assault-Rifle, but it had obvious shortcomings. The biggest being using outdated Japanese 6.5mm ammo (Protip: If your rifle needs special ammo that 99% of the army does not use, you're doing ground war wrong), as well as having a 25 bullet magazine that was fed through 5 bullet clips. As a result, it was largely forgotten about outside of Russia and obscure militaria nerds, since it primarily saw service in the Russian Civil war while everyone was trying to kill each other.
* '''PPD-40''': Based on the Finnish KP31, this SMG was made in small numbers before the war. One of Degtyarov's many beautiful designs, it was a nice gun to shoot with. But due to pressing demands during the invasion, the design was simplified into...
* '''PPSh-41''':  After noticing how the Finns used this very simple tactic in the close quarter combat of forests and cities of the Winter War, the Soviet war machine poured huge effort into creating easy to use and more importantly easy to make SMGs. And to its credit, the PPSh-41 was pretty damn good. One of its more notable features was a chrome lined bore, which made the gun extremely resistant to dirt and corrosion, and keeping with the standard Soviet adage of 'quantity being a quality of its own' entire infantry battalions were often equipped with cheap and easy to manufacture PPSh-41's, pointed at the enemy and let loose to devastating effect in the urban battlefields of Eastern Europe. Even the Germans loved the PPSh-41, to the point where they had an program specifically for converting captured guns over to use MP-40 ammo and magazines, and manuals were printed and distributed to the Wehrmacht on how to use captured PPShs. Shpagin's SMG however was still not min maxed to be fully simplified for war production. Thus, Sudayev took a swing at making the...
* '''PPS-43''': Deciding that the PPSh-41 could be streamlined even more, the PPS-43 replaced it as it dispensed the wooden stock for a metal folding stock, among other changes that reduced skilled working hours to next to nothing. Otherwise it was mostly the same model, just firing a bit slower and ending up more accurate.