Tag SVT-40
Captured Soviet soldier dressed in SN-42 body armor – 1944
Stalnoi Nagrudnik – the steel bib, designed to stop the 9mm pistol round and potentially even a round from a rifle as long as it did not hit directly front on. In this photo three non-penetrating bullets have hit the…
German Troops Testing a Captured SVT-40
Leibstandarte personnel firing their Kar 98 bolt-action rifles and a captured SVT-40 during Operation Barbarossa in 1941.