(photo from http://sa-kuva.fi/)
Finnish dog wearing a canine gas mask during the Winter War.
Vintage Saturday: Bark!
(photo from http://sa-kuva.fi/)
(photo from http://sa-kuva.fi/)
Submachine Guns
M44 Submachine Gun: Finland Copies the Soviet PPS-43
The kp/31 Suomi submachine gun in Finnish service was an outstanding weapon, but it was slow and expensive to manufacture. When Finnish forces began capturing Soviet PPS-42 and PPS-43 submachine guns form the Soviets in […]
Prototype
m/26 Suomi: Aimo Lahti’s First Production Design
Aimo Lahti was the premier firearms designer, and the m/26 was his first significant design. Lahti was a Civil Guard armorer, and upon seeing the Lindelof copy of the Bergmann SMG in 1921 he thought […]
Competition
Suomi vs Stemple-Suomi: How Close Are They?
Yesterday we took a look at the Stemple-Suomi on the bench – today it’s time to find how similar it is in handling to the real thing! I have a Danish M41 Suomi, a Stemple-Suomi, […]