Can you add more anti-tank weapons to Battle for Moscow campaign? as PTDR 41 is not effective, no one will wait till you stand and shooting 15 bullets of that for the chance to kill driver of the tank… it takes eternity, plus that rifle can not use scope, so you have to get closer… IMO PTDR 41 anti-tank rifle is useless. (I know how to use it btw, I have to aim drivers inside the tank and I know where they are located, it’s just HARD)
You can find here that soviets also where using 2 more options vs tanks:
In 1941 the Soviets didn’t make use of American/British anti-tank weapons. These would be shipped over a year after the Land lease act was made official.
The reason we have American infantry weapons is because as you can see they are old and were easily bought by a lot of countries in the early 20s-30s
Not sure where you got that from…they were not low quality and were mainly used to equip the Latvian legions fighting under the Russian empire in WW1. After WW1 many went to Spain so its doubtful any quantity of them remained by WW2
I’m sure spare parts were hard to come by for it so alot were probably lost to attrition and with Mosin Nagants reaching the correct numbers it wouldnt make alot of sense for them to keep 1895s around.
they were countries that had ever black powder guns in reserve… do you think that it would be hard for the Winchesters? They are fine rifles, not quite ideal for warfare due to the lever action but still good guns which have seen plenty of military service and performed certain roles excelently, Mosin got features from rifles like it also WW1 ended for the Russians in 1918 and they went on fighting in a civil war which ended in 23 and you’re saying that you find it hard for these rifles to be still around 18 years later when the Germans are at the gates of Moscow and all of the best equipment has been captured by the Germans at the start of the invasion?
Anything not main stream is normally removed from supply chains. That’s how logistics works. Have you found an example of the 1895 still being used in the second world war by the Russians? How many? I’d like to see something with some info on it not just some forum speculation. I can find no evidence the Russians still had any 1895s in WW2
However the 70-100 years ago it was common place to place obsolete weapons into armories as a reserve.
about 3 million Berdans were made - Finland issues 3000 Berdan rifles to troops at the start of the winter war due a shortage of firearms, and only scrapped the last of them in 1945 -
I’ve tried but besides that one picture which could of been grabbed from various other countries that Germany occupied or fought I cant find much. They sort of fade from history for some reason
Mostly because Russia had a lot of military incompetance at that time. They were losing roughly 200,000 rifles per month at the beginning of the war on top of having 1 million more frontline troops than rifles at war start. As a result these 900,000 winchesters they ordered were thrown straight into combat and typically lost or were given to units such as the Latvians, Lithuanians, and Finns that would break off after the peace treaty. After that the Russian Civil War ensured even more would disappear. Most of Russias leftovers were sold to other countries in the 1930s.
No need to get all upset - the evidence that there were still thousands around in the general area in 1940 is maybe the best evidence you’re ever going to get.
You are applying post war/modern NATO standards. That doesn’t make any sense, and again the Russians had plenty laying around and lost most of the best equipment at the start of the war by the time we get to Moscow there ware even emergency guns such as a Korovin 1941 which was made at the last minute by a factory which gave em out to voluteer soldiers “but muh no guys there might have been untested guns made at the last minute but the russians would totally not have any winchesters left” not to mention that they also made them not just importathem and they had rechambered them to their cartrige
