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Posted: 3/3/2006 7:33:28 PM EDT
I was doing some searching on the Mk18 Mod0 CQBR and came across this picture. I'm posting it here as it looks like an eastern European uniform and name tag. Is this Russian? Is he (horror of horrors) using an Mr instead of an AK74?
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Yes, they do. From images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=airsoft+ar:  Originally from aegworld.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/ar151.gif, but Tripod is poopy about linking from off-site. Airsoft crap for sale at aegworld.tripod.com/index.html. Five minutes on Google Image Search, and poof, an airsoft with a bolt carrier behind the ejection cover. I can't claim with any certainty that the dork with nightvision is or isn't holding an airsoft gun, but I'd bet it is. |
Nope those are p's |
Looks real to me. Blammo!!! 
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I think you're right, I was sure it was Kamysh! http://www.shape.nato.int/shape/graphics/2005/10/06/b051006j.jpg Found this pic, it's definitely easy to confuse the two with the similar lettering and camo. |
| Airsoft M16 mags dont wear like the one in his M4. They're painted and it just flakes off, not wear down to metal coloring like his is. Also, the bolt carrier is oiled pretty well, while an airsoft one would be dry. Maybe the wire out the back of the laser is an attachment for a optional pressure switch. |
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I'll concede that the camo does look Greek (though SERIOUSLY faded), and the nametape kinda works for that (Papadopolous, Papazoglou, Papagiorgiou, the list goes on). Rifle still looks goofy, though. I'm still leaning towards Airsoft, with some well-used imported surplus Greek BDU's. Compare how faded the proposed airsofter's gear is, to these guys (not to mention the Greek use of G3's. Don't they still use them, or have the switched to the AR platform?):     The helmet also doesn't look right for the Greeks - someone pointed out that it looked like a PASGT helmet, which it does, with a different cover. The helmet's that these guys are wearing are markedly different:  
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Alrighty, I'll correct myself. I've found some other photos over at www.defencetalk.com/pictures/index.php/cat/4223 that seem to indicate that the Hellenic Army is migrating (or has migrated) to the AR-based platform. |
| look how solid the IR is bolted down on that AR, usually airsoft setups are just to hold a larger battery, and the delta ring looks metal to me, the pictures of the airsoft AR's the delta ring looks kinda dark black and shiney. if thats Airsoft its one hell of a copy. |
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It is pointing up, which mean Fire-AR15 or Semi-M16
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