To: Operation_Shock_N_Awe
The Russians seem to have a new weapon in their arsenal I haven't seen before. Can anyone identify the weapon this Russian is holding on Georgian prisoners?
18 posted on
08/19/2008 6:23:00 PM PDT by
DJ Taylor
(Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
To: DJ Taylor
22 posted on
08/19/2008 7:10:36 PM PDT by
kenth
(Will Rogers never met Barack Obama.)
To: DJ Taylor
what ever it is, it looks fully suppressed...
25 posted on
08/19/2008 7:23:12 PM PDT by
Chode
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To: DJ Taylor
44 posted on
08/20/2008 4:51:46 AM PDT by
RusIvan
(Saakashilli is should be tried as the war criminal)
To: DJ Taylor
It is the
AS Val (Avtomat Spetsialny) introduced in the 1980's for Spetsnaz and recon troops. It fires a cartridge that is basically the AK 7.62x39mm necked up to hold a 9mm pistol bullet, so it will be just subsonic but will still have enough impact to be deadly at close to medium ranges. It is quiet, for whatever purposes one needs a quiet weapon.
51 posted on
08/20/2008 6:48:51 PM PDT by
Sender
(Never lose your ignorance; you can never regain it!)
To: DJ Taylor; kenth; RusIvan
On second thought, that is indeed the
VSS (Vintovka Snaiperskaya Spetsialnaya) sniper version of the AS Val.
52 posted on
08/20/2008 7:05:51 PM PDT by
Sender
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