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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic
As an item of speculation, many of the trials rifles were kept at their respective arms factories and can be seen today in their museums. It's possible some of these trials rifles were liberated during the Twilight War and made there way slowly westwards - it would sure be an interesting sight seeing someone carrying something like this, the TKB-408 of 1946 (and the media thinks bullpups are something new!)
For info on the above rifle, go here http://world.guns.ru/assault/rus/korobov-tkb-40-e.html |
That rifle is ugly as hell...and yet there's something strangely appealing about it all the same. It just seems like the very kind of weapon you'd expect to find in a futuristic dysfunctional and/or post apocalyptic world...
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11-02-2011, 09:52 AM
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