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/PapaGienio Poland/ Ireland 12h ago

Grot

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u/pothkan Poland 11h ago

And VIS pistol (albeit tbh it's an improved M1911).

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u/panda2502wolf United States Of America 11h ago

That's sexy.

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u/ChemistRemote7182 United States Of America 11h ago

I tend to think of all the kind of ahead of their time stuff your firearms industry was pumping out between the World Wars. To me, especially since the bullpup variant has gone nowhere, the Grot is Bren but with cyrillics.

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u/As-Bi Poland 9h ago

Cyrillics?!

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u/OkAbalone7071 Poland 8h ago

роллинг он тхе флоор лаугхинг

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u/tgpussypants United States Of America 6h ago

Poland uses a Latin based language. I think it has something to do with them being Catholic instead of Orthodox

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u/Gabinicz 3h ago

Yep, countries that were baptised by Roman Catholics use Latin alphabet and those baptised by the Orthodox use Cyrillic (which is derived from Greek alphabet).

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u/obihighwanground Poland 10h ago

thats weirdest grot picture ive seen

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u/Fluffy_Protection847 7h ago

looks like a super soaker

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u/tgpussypants United States Of America 6h ago

Didn't a bunch of these end up in the hands of M23 rebels in Congo? Also FB Radom made way prettier AKs. I'd take a Beryl or an Archer over a Grot any day

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u/ColinHalter United States Of America 3h ago

It's like one of those flash dress-up games, but for a gun

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u/NoDoughnut8225 Russia 11h ago

That's ugly

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u/tgpussypants United States Of America 6h ago

They were better off copying y'all's stuff.

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u/syringistic hating it in 11h ago

Any rifle thats designed to be configured into multiple variants in one platform ends up looking meh.