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'''Battle Balalaikas: Their Notable Hand Weapons'''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929122422/http://world.guns.ru/rifle/rfl03-e.htm Mosin-Nagant] - actually entered service in XIX century, long before [[Red October]]. Designed by Captain Sergei Nosin and Belgian Léon Nagant, c.37 million were built. It may look outdated when compared with semi-auto rifles of 1930s, and it was, but it's also powerful and precise. Mosin-Nagant rifle (of another design branch) with iron sights only was [[Weapon of Choice]] of the most deadly sniper ever - [
** "The one with the rifle shoots. The one without the rifle follows. When the one with the rifle is killed, the one that follows picks up the rifle and fires.". Yep, it's in ''[[Enemy at the Gates]]''. Zaytsev and Pavlichenko (a female Soviet sniper with a similar number of kills to Zaytsev) both used this.
*** Slightly misleading, while it was a major problem in WW1 the Soviet Union in WW2 generally had enough rifles. Now ammunition on the other hand...
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