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| Russian Forces Capture Us-Made Small Arms In Senaki Military Base |
| 2008-08-15 |
| Senaki–APA. Russian forces announced a list of captured arms in Georgian military base in Senaki, APA reports quoting Lenta.ru. Deputy Chief of Russian General Staff Anatoliy Nogovich said they captured 764 pieces of M-16 automatic weapon, 28 M-40 machine guns and 754 Kalashnikov automatic weapons. He said Georgian servicemen left the military base before arrival of Russian forces. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #5 What about the UFOs? Enquirying minds need to know about the alien technology that Georgia had? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-08-15 17:09 |
| #4 FN MAG 58? Same thing? I think so, but am having it checked. M240 is US designation for the 58. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2008-08-15 16:15 |
| #3 Wonder if they mean M240? |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2008-08-15 13:27 |
| #2 US made arms are available on the open market so this is worthless. The US is an ally of Georgia so this is worse than obvious. But the really funny thing is... 764 pieces of M-16 automatic weapon 754 Kalashnikov automatic weapons. The Kalishnikov is Russian or Chinese made. So just under half the captured weapons were Russian. Yeah it's probably old stuff but it's funny. I'm also curious what "764 pieces of M-16 automatic weapon" means. Did they take a couple M-16s apart and count the pieces? Probably a translation issue but what a weird sentence. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-08-15 13:09 |
| #1 What the hell is a M-40 machine gun? Are they talking about a sniper rifle? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-08-15 12:57 |