Spetnaz's Underwater Guns

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 8/16/2018 | A Young

[w1n1]

International warfare has created some of the most profound advances in technology and concepts, and the underwater arena is no exception.

APS Underwater Rifle
The APS or Avtomat Podvodnyj Spetsialnyj Underwater Rifle was developed during the early 1970s by the Soviet Central Institute for Precision Machine Building (TsNIITochMash plant).
The inspiration for this was that Russian combat divers only had knives and the SPP-1 underwater pistol as their sole means of weaponry.
The APS was meant to provide considerably more firepower to their combat divers.
The APS, initially only used by the Russian armed forces, has been available on the international market since the fall of the Soviet Union.
It's based on the AK-74, a refined version of the AK-47 chambered in 5.45×39mm rather than the more commonly known 7.62×39mm of other earlier Kalashnikov rifles, but with several significant changes. It fires a 120mm-long, 5.6mm dart, or flechette, which is relatively stable travelling underwater.

ASM-DT Rifle
The APS rifle solved the problem of arming Russian divers while they were stationed at a naval base, but the problem still remained on how to arm them when they were deployed on surface missions where the APS was of little or no use.
These combat divers ideally required a weapon capable of providing them with the same level of reliability on the surface or underwater.
The divers were faced with the unsatisfactory solution of having to carry separate weapons for each possibility. What they needed was a single hybrid weapon. Read the rest of this Spetnaz's Underwater guns here.

[ThinkingBuddha]

This looks like something Aquaman would use.

[HombreSecreto]

Or in the obligatory melee at the end of Bond films where the good guy muscle attacks the villain’s lair, facing off against the minions.

[BitWielder1]

Should work swimmingly.

[Desron13]

So... the Spetnaz anticipates getting into allot of under water fire fights do they. Well, I guess you can never be too prepared. Plus this should nicely compliment their sharks with laser beams program.