04 June 2007

pa rusky tehnologhia


Remember the old space ball point pen vs. pencil debate?

Here's another one for you: weapons that fire under water.

The Americans invested millions of dollars into very complicated r&d, the Russian just used round tipped projectiles. And what do you know: "The APS is a lot like a Kalashnikov actually," says Russian defense analyst Viktor Litovkin. "It has a rate of 500 rounds per minute."

And most probably can be fixed with just a hammer and two wires.

Read the whole embarrassing story here

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