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== Literature ==

* Subverted in Harry Turtledove's [[Alternate History]] novel ''[[The Guns of the South]]'', where the Confederate army use AK-47s because [[Giving Radio to The Romans|they've been imported by time-travelling white supremacists]] who want the CSA to win the American Civil War, so slavery can continue.

 

== WWII [[First-Person Shooter|First Person Shooters]] ==

* ''[[Battlefield (Video Game)|Battlefield 1942]]'' completely ignored how its weapons were used in actual history. The assault class of each army gets a historical machine gun which functions in-game as an assault rifle, and the engineer classes get the bolt-action rifles that were really the standard-issue weapons of most armies. The worst offenders, though, are the stationary machine guns, which do not cause a whole lot of damage, and whoever uses them ''stands up straight, completely exposed to enemy fire''. Interestingly, the mod ''Forgotten Hope'' added historical weapons, and the result was a game which was much more authentic and more fun to play.

** The Japanese in the game use German weapons like the Kar 98, MP-18, and Walther P38, as well as the experimental Type 5 rifle; Russians use American and British weapons, but have their own DP-1928 LMG as their main Assault weapon. The Japanese Arisaka Type 38 and Type 99 are seen in the hands of almost every Japanese soldiers. Oddly, the Russians uses the MP-18 instead of the extremely common PPSs-41. The British have Thompsons and BARs instead of Stens and Brens. Like above, the Grease Gun, which should be extremely common, is missing despite some of the battles taking place after 1943.

** The Russians with MP-18s are likely a balance issue, since the 71-round drum of the PPSh-41 would be unbalancing. Yet, the PPSh-41, as well as the later PPS-43, could also use 35-round box magazines (as seen [http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg03-e.htm here]).

* ''[[Battlefield (Video Game)|Battlefield]] 1943'' continues the tradition with Thompsons being the only submachine gun available for the Americans; the Type 100 being the only submachine gun available for the Japanese; the German Karabiner 98 rifle being the sniper rifles for the Japanese; and the experimental, never-entering-service Type 5 being the semiautomatic rifle for the Japanese. As the game's options are quite limited in general and strictly multiplayer and [[Cosmetically Different Sides|all weapon types being exactly the same for both sides]], though, it was clear they were just looking for a simple justification for the game to be easily balanced.

* Somewhat averted in ''[[Call of Duty]] 4'', where we see a number of AK variants, the G3, and several variations on the M4 carbine. However the AK-74 is only present in its AKS-74U carbine form, with even the Russian Loyalists using archaic AK-47s instead of the AK-74 which should be their standard rifle.

** There's also no AKM or Type 56, both of which are far more common than the old AK-47, and the 'AK-74u' seems to have been modeled after some Yugoslavian or Bulgarian weapon rather than an actual AKS-74U.<ref>It was, in fact, modeled on an airsoft gun.</ref>

* ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'' takes the odd weapon selections to the extreme, with the Brazilian militia using everything from lever-action Winchester 1887s, locally produced FN FAL's, to updated AK-47s with fancy optics, and the Russians using many foreign weapon designs, some of which originated from countries they would traditionally have nothing to do with, as is the case with the Israeli Tavor TAR-21 and French FAMAS. Basically, they use everything ''but'' what you'd expect.

 

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