• weeeeum@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It takes a huge amount of industry to produce firearms, not just the precision in machining, precision of alloys used, heat treatment of steels, supply lines, etc. Missing one of these vital attributes will lead to, at best, an unreliable weapon, or at worst, something that will explode and potentially kill the user.

    As Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe fighting the largest European war since WW2, anything that can shoot accurately is precious, especially a big ass .50 with a very long range. As they say, its hard to hide from a .50