China has been developing underwater guns!

Posted January 30, 2010 in Pistols, Rifles by Steve Johnson with 20 Comments
Tags: becausewecan, china, handguns, military, pistol, rifle, rifles, strange guns

Unbeknown to me, China has been developing a line of underwater guns. Their designs are based on Russia’s underwater guns but are chambered in a new cartridge that appears to use 5.8x42mm (Chinese DBP87) brass.

The Chinese version of the Russian SPP-1 three barrels in a triangular configuration, rather than the SPP’s four barrel setup.

SPP-1 (top), Chinese variant (bottom)

The Chinese version of the [Russian APS] rifle(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APS_underwater_assault_rifle) being fired.

More info at China Defense.

[ Many thanks to Sven (Defense and Freedom) for emailing me the the info. ]

Steve Johnson

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