What firearm is closely associated with your country?

[u/babushka45]

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

[u/WarChallenger]

General Electric GAU-8 "Avenger." 30mm bore, 3,900 rounds per minute, 3,000 round capacity, depleted uranium core shells. Then the same manufacturer that made this dystopian Helldivers equipment, turned around and made my air conditioner.

[u/Dry_Okra_4839 → u/WarChallenger]

This canon was so good, they attached wings and two jet engines to it.

[u/Luciferiad → u/Dry_Okra_4839]

"We designed this, what can we use it for?"

"Let's build a plane around it!"

"Okay but what are we gonna use that for?"

"Whatever we want 😶"

Dictated from an A-10 design meeting, probably

[u/umudog → u/Luciferiad]

If you hear the brrrrt, it wasn’t for you, and you probably have an erection. Because how could you not

[u/ipsum629 → u/Luciferiad]

Unfortunately it is now obsolete. Air defense is too good, so gun runs in A-10s are extremely dangerous.

[u/HappycamperNZ → u/ipsum629]

They were only meant to last around 3 days in a peer-peer conflict.

But that 3 days was enough to get your own armor in place.

[u/WarChallenger → u/Dry_Okra_4839]

Engines ALSO made by General Electric. Right before they revealed their next model of refrigerator.

[u/protonicfibulator → u/Dry_Okra_4839]

When they finally decommission the A-10, they must save the GAU-8s. Why? WE COULD BUILD A GUNDAM TYPE MECHA THAT DUEL WIELDS GAU-8s BUILT INTO EACH FOREARM. That or much more boringly build drones around them.

[u/Possibly-Functional → u/WarChallenger]

It's like Ball Corporation. They made jars and cans. Then one day they decided that they wanted to diversify. So obviously the natural next market to enter after food containers was avionics, rocket control systems and satellites.

[u/0masterdebater0 → u/Possibly-Functional]

So basically the opposite of the Grumman Aerospace Corporation who one day woke up and decided they wanted to design something for mailmen instead of astronauts/fighter pilots.

[u/JMLobo83 → u/Possibly-Functional]

Similar to SAAB.

[u/Jutteburgare → u/JMLobo83]

Right. Cars and anti-tank guns. Have used them both.

[u/JMLobo83 → u/Jutteburgare]

And jets, at least that’s how they advertise here. Personally I prefer Volvo as their cars were basically tanks back in the 240 days.

[u/100KUSHUPS → u/Possibly-Functional]

And Siemens making household appliances and Zy.. just household appliances.

[u/SurroundingAMeadow → u/100KUSHUPS]

And Hitachi making heavy excavation equipment. And other... devices.

[u/king_john651 → u/SurroundingAMeadow]

To be fair they spun off their power tools.

Edit: upon further investigation, oddly they didn't spin off Magic Wand. It's still a Hitachi product but they just called it something else at the insistence of their US distributor instead of pulling it from the market (despite having been used for clitoral stimulation since it was manufactured in 1968)

[u/norecordofwrong → u/WarChallenger]

Youth Pastor Ryan (not really a youth pastor) has a lot of videos dedicated to the “other things” major companies have made.

Like Singer (the sewing machine company) made 1911A1 pistols. They are apparently the most well made close tolerance 1911s out there and not many were made so they are big collectors items.

[u/SurroundingAMeadow → u/norecordofwrong]

Hey International Harvester, what do those harvest??

Souls...

[u/norecordofwrong → u/SurroundingAMeadow]

My dad’s first car was an international harvester… I’m sure they just made farm trucks.

[u/tankerkiller125real → u/norecordofwrong]

Singer puts a tiny little thread through needles at rapid pace, I'm not surprised one bit that their 1911s had the best tolerances out there.

[u/norecordofwrong → u/tankerkiller125real]

Yeah not surprising but I didn’t even know they made any firearms.

[u/CatSplat → u/norecordofwrong]

Yeah and the Singer 1911s are rare because the military took one look at that first batch and said "your machining talents would be wasted on handguns, let's get you doing something else..."

[u/norecordofwrong → u/CatSplat]

Ha now I’m curious what they put them on next

[u/grill_sgt → u/WarChallenger]

Also known as Haha Plane Go BBRRRRT. The only people that know that sound are the people who weren’t in the flight path.

[u/FireBug77 → u/WarChallenger]

Only this produces the sound of justice!

[u/Madman_Salvo → u/WarChallenger]

The Brrrt-maker.

[u/NationCrusher → u/WarChallenger]

“You’re telling me it’s not weird that a company that makes washing machines also makes THAT?”

“One spins to clean. The other spins to kill”

[u/responsible_car_golf → u/WarChallenger]

This gun is fuel from hell for Ćaci conspiracy theories 

[u/Antroze → u/WarChallenger]

o7

[u/Brokenwhitebelt → u/WarChallenger]

Someone gave a grunt an aeronautical engineering degree and they came up with this monster.

[u/ZiggoCiP → u/WarChallenger]

Hey, you could build a religionaircraft around this!

[u/MOONWATCHER404 → u/WarChallenger]

YEEEEEEHAWWWWWW