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From: "Mike Smith" <kld_msmith@nospam.earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: alt.games.quake2,rec.games.computer.quake.playing,rec.games.computer.quake.misc,alt.games.quake
Subject: Re: Gun specialists? What about *REAL* guns?
Date: 14 Apr 1998 21:26:19 GMT
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Kinetic <kinetic@cyberbeach.net.SPAMEATER!> wrote in article
<01bd67b7$9bccac80$LocalHost@nook>...
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> 
> bong <bong@post.5ci.lt> wrote in article
> <35334ed9.3100497@news.telia.lt>...
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> > And the machinegun is just the good ol' AK (Automat Kalashnykowo).
> 
> Is that really what AK stands for? What country made it, and what
does that
> mean translated (if anything).

It was originally a Russian gun, now copied in China.  I would assume
Kalashnykov was either the designer of the gun, or maybe it's who the
gun was named after.  (Like the US military names weapons after
generals, like Abrams, Pershing, Bradley, etc.)

--Mike Smith