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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Damn Swedes

Why is it that Sweden is always making kick ass guns?

The Bofors kicked major ass on all sides in WW2 and its latest incarnation still does.
Then Saab makes some decent fighter jets (not a F-15 or -16, but better than a mig)
Now, it makes the European version of the Amraam air to air missile.

Now, this perfectly peaceful and neutral nation has one of the better equiped militaries on the planet (I guess being a dog-paddle from Germany, Russia, and the UK would give you reason) but they have this nasty habit of being inconsiderate capitalists.

They sell anything to anyone, which brings up their latest death machine.

The Uzi that kills tanks. Yes. Uzi. Kill tanks (or rather APCs).

Yeah, yeah. Whoop de farkin doo.

Heres the scary, no terrifying, part. At 230 meters the little 6.5x25mm cartridge punches through the "NATO protected man" dummy target.
and a 50m, it cuts right through the 7mm armor that the russians use in their MT-LBs

and both 5.56 and 7.62 failed to do so.
Here are the links:
Cartridge
Gun

Now, this little package is easily concealed, has a 100 round drum clip, accurate, long ranged, and armor piercing. I'm sure that body guards, escorts, and secret service men across the world are ecstatic about a country that is notorious for selling weapons to undesirable parties has developed the anti-armor capabilities of a RPG compressed into 14 inches of sub-machine gun. Oh yeah, its cheap too.

Now, some pull-start with a grudge doesn't have to sneak his 6 ft. long tube onto the parade route, just his little CBJ and pump 100 rounds of armor-piercing tungsten into the motorcade. Or the guards while his accomplice across the street hoses the limo.

Actually, maybe we should look into this cartridge.

So, fuck the MP-7 and FN's P-90. Lets get us some CBJs for a quarter of the price and double the lethality.

I guess with an arsenal and know how like this, their 200 year warless streak makes more sense. "Steh dee fook oot ahr coontree, oor weel haf to blows you oop" sayeth the Norse men.