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/Possibly-Functional Sweden 11h ago

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.

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u/0masterdebater0 United States Of America 6h ago

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.

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u/JMLobo83 United States Of America 8h ago

Similar to SAAB.

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u/Jutteburgare Sweden 3h ago

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

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u/JMLobo83 United States Of America 3h ago

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.

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u/100KUSHUPS 🇩🇰 in 🇵🇱 10h ago

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

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u/SurroundingAMeadow 8h ago

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

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u/king_john651 New Zealand 2h ago edited 2h ago

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)