Sadly the PPsH penal squad kinda had to be nerfed out of the game in order to implement necessary nerfs for SVT conscripts (without doing complex dps adjustments to SVT cons that you cant fix afterwards if it's underpowered, cuz it's last patch of coh2)
CQC units already struggle in the current meta of coh2 and ppsh penals got it the worst I'd say. Their dps is very high because they have shocktroop ppsh and the highest accuracy vet bonus in coh2, but they die very fast and got nothing to protect themselves.
So theoretically speaking they could be OK if you use a troop transport to get them close but that's kind of a waste of fuel just to make them a passable unit.
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