Alexey Sudayev
Engineer, Deceased Person
1912 – 1946
Who was Alexey Sudayev?
Alexey Ivanovich Sudayev was a Russian weapons designer. He created the PPS submachine gun and the AS-44 assault rifle.
He lived in Leningrad, and participated in the defense of the city. The PPS was developed to be mass-produced for the defense of Leningrad.
Sudayev designed one of the first Soviet assault rifles for the new intermediate cartridge 7.62×39mm, the AS-44. The first prototype was tested in 1944, and found as working adequately by the Soviet army, but considered too heavy at 5.6 kg. Sudayev then worked on a second, lighter prototype that weighted only 5.35 kg. However this prototype had accuracy and reliability problems, yet to be resolved. Sudayev however fell severely ill and died in 1946, a week shy of his 34th birthday, before his design could be finalized.
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