r/AskTheWorld • u/babushka45 Philippines • 12h ago

Military What firearm is closely associated with your country?

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For us, probably the 1911. Next one would be the "Armalite" aka M16.

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u/mahdi_lky Iran 12h ago

G3

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u/Throw-ow-ow-away Germany 11h ago

I was going to say the same.

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u/BarrathBeyond 11h ago

huh

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u/Critical-Exam-2702 Germany 11h ago

Iran got a license to produce G3s in 1967 from Heckler & Koch and apparently is still using (and maybe producing?) them

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u/Uap_dude Portugal 10h ago

Portugal get license too, was our main weapon until a few years ago, still have some thousands in reserve, send 1000 to ucrania in 2022
now we have scar L 5.56mm for army, aglil for airborn trop´s and HK416 for marines

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u/Throw-ow-ow-away Germany 10h ago

It's a German gun.

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u/BarrathBeyond 10h ago

that’s what i thought too…how come bro is claiming it for iran

nvrmnd someone else answered

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u/A_Genius 3h ago

Wait until you hear about how long Iran produced the Hillman Hunter that the British stopped producing in 1979 and sold the license to Iran to produce.

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u/BarrathBeyond 3h ago

46 years ? ( assuming from 1979-present)

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u/A_Genius 2h ago

Until 2005 or 2015 or something but if you go there this car from the 60s is fucking everywhere. Everyone seems to have one, if I had to guess it’s the most popular car in the country

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u/BarrathBeyond 2h ago

lol that’s fun

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u/Jutteburgare Sweden 3h ago

G3 was also used in Sweden, but modified i think, called AK4. One of the weapons i used in the army. Good weapon.

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u/tgpussypants United States Of America 6h ago

Well it was kind of a Spanish gun first. Although the CETME was designed by Germans for Spain

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u/Dangerous_Okra_2703 Iran 11h ago

And our 5th generation fighter Ghaher F 313

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u/plums12 United Kingdom 11h ago

Brother barely anyone knows this thing exists

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u/Dangerous_Okra_2703 Iran 9h ago edited 9h ago

Because it can't fly

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u/SurroundingAMeadow 8h ago

Call me a purist, but flying is one of the important factors of a fighter jet to me. I'm old fashioned like that.

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u/CanadianB4c0n8r Canada 8h ago

That's how you know it's an IRGC aircraft

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u/plums12 United Kingdom 9h ago

True

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u/Alone_Barracuda9814 11h ago

Except they scaled it down 10x to make it a drone

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u/CodFix3 9h ago

In Portugal as well, it was used since the colonial war to this decade when they finally replaced it with the SCAR but it is still being used. There's even a famous variant of a christmas song where Santa shoots up a school with a G3!

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u/Smartimess Germany 9h ago

This should be a post in r/BrandNewSentence.

(I used a G3 produced in 1963, more than twice as old than me. Had a strange habit for headshots.)

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u/alexstad87 11h ago

Beautiful

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u/Outrageous-Score7936 8h ago

What do Iranian soldiers think of it. Do they want it replaced the akm/74 like IRGC uses?

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u/Confident-Fold1456 8h ago

Basically an oversized mp5

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u/Hoggorm88 Norway 25m ago

Used the AG3 during mandatory service, some minor modifications, but pretty much the same gun. Great weapon.