Path: clanworld.com!news.webspan.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.gte.net!nntp.flash.net!excalibur.flash.net!not-for-mail
From: "Spatch" <spatch@flash.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: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 12:16:26 -0500
Organization: Flashnet Communications, http://www.flash.net
Lines: 23
Message-ID: <6h05il$lf$1@excalibur.flash.net>
References: <35334ed9.3100497@news.telia.lt> <01bd67b7$9bccac80$LocalHost@nook>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ccasc1-33.flash.net
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4
Xref: clanworld.com rec.games.computer.quake.playing:38862 rec.games.computer.quake.misc:27603 alt.games.quake:27823


Kinetic wrote in message <01bd67b7$9bccac80$LocalHost@nook>...
>
>
>bong <bong@post.5ci.lt> wrote in article
><35334ed9.3100497@news.telia.lt>...
>
>> 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 means Automatic Kalishnikov and it was made by the Soviet Union and I
think is still being made by the Russians.

Kalishnikov was a Russian ballet dancer or something like that and I can't
for the life of me remember why they named the gun after him.  It came out
in the late 40's or early 50's.

Spatch