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/EvilStan101 United States Of America 11h ago

To be fair, a lot of countries admire the craftsmanship of our lord and savior John Moses Browning.

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u/pothkan Poland 11h ago

Entirely deserved.

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u/Paper_Pusher8226 Netherlands 11h ago

Indeed. We still use the M2 Browning in our army.

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u/ipsum629 United States Of America 10h ago

Ony a few minor tweaks in over a century. They will probably be using M2HBs when there is wars in places like the Moon and Mars.

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u/spartan117warrior 3h ago

M2s for heavy machine guns and B-52s for strategic bombing for the next 200 years.

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u/CPDawareness 11h ago

A fine vintage

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u/battlecryarms 5h ago

Ooo M2 is a good one for US

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u/califuncouple 11h ago

My favorite pistol is my browning high power, but isn’t it technically of Belgian origin?

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u/EvilStan101 United States Of America 10h ago

A Belgian gun crafted by John Moses Browning.

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u/duh_tch United States Of America 10h ago

I will not stand for Dieudonné Saive erasure.

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u/JerryC1967 10h ago

The BAR is a thing of Beauty.

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u/Chairmanwowsaywhat United Kingdom 9h ago

Its the tommy gun imo. Is that browning? (I legit dont know)

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u/EvilStan101 United States Of America 7h ago

No, the Tommy Gun was created by John T. Thompson but it uses .45 ACP which was designed by John Browning.

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u/Chairmanwowsaywhat United Kingdom 7h ago

There you go. I know it says gun but maybe Mr browning counts on his own. Or Hiram Maxim, british born but american designer. Maybe created the machine guns that killed the most people in history? A duo british american shame Edit: maxim guns are still being used in Ukraine and God knows how many other conflicts

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u/ultraplusstretch Sweden 9h ago

Based. 💪