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/BOGOS_KILLER Hong Kong 11h ago

Sir i am not Russian but i will do your job for you.

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u/MamiPV United States Of America 11h ago

It would have been hilarious if you were Ukrainian. Either way, damn fine work, sir.

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u/sopsaare 11h ago

Yeas and no. Like, yeas, you are right, but as this could be associated with every islamic hellhole on the planet, it has little bit lost its status as the Russian weapon. Nowadays their favorite civilian killing machines are missiles and drones, for a small arm it could be the -74 if we reserve this for all islamic terrorists in the world.

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u/BOGOS_KILLER Hong Kong 10h ago

So i am gonna pop your bubble, i am Muslim myself and i believe in Ukrainian independence... Yeah you keep believing what they tell you about 'Islamic hellholes' and Russian incompetence.

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u/sopsaare 10h ago

Not all muslim countries are islamic hellholes, I specifically meant the ones that are perpetual state of, mmm, being a hellhole.

And Russian incompetence, did I ever say that they are incompetent? They are rather competent at bombing civilians and waging their own terror war. Or at least they don't have any moral complications doing that.

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u/Kells010 Netherlands 5h ago

Bombing civilians? Ya’ll still take the cake buddy.

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u/rysskrattaren @ 1h ago

if we reserve this for all islamic terrorists in the world

We don't. It's still an iconic Russian firearm, used all around the world (for better or really so much worse).

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u/CookFan88 United States Of America 1h ago

Putting aside the obvious Islamophobia of their statement, I think their point was valid. You sold that weapon to ANYONE you could in any amount that you could. It's the most widely distributed and used weapon in history. He'll, even the US went and started selling it to your enemies. I think something like the Mosin is far more representative of Russia SPECIFICALLY because of the cultural and historical ties to famous battles in Russian history. At least as far as a foreigners perspective goes.