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On 2013-03-07, Jim Wilkins wrote:
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http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/...res-next-year/

``Engineers shot test tires with 50-caliber rounds from an AK-47
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then subjected them to 5,000 hours of off-roading.''

Perhaps the reporter confused .50 with 5.45?


And that would be AK-74

Do you really expect reporters to differentiate AK-47, AKM, AK-74,
MAK-90?

After Desert Storm I visited an air show with captured Iraqi equipment
on its second day. While I was examining a jet the airman watching
over the area came up and asked me if I knew what it was. I recognized
the writing on it as Hungarian and emphasized that aspect, assuming
everyone connected to the USAF would know the general model. But no, I
was the first person in two days to identify it as a MiG-21.

The tires on the ZU-23 were sized in inches and marked "Made in
Moscow" in the Roman alphabet.
http://web.bg.uw.edu.pl/welw/militar...23/zu-23_3.jpg