(09-16-2024, 08:03 PM)SomeJackleg Wrote:(09-16-2024, 07:35 PM)Ninurta Wrote: In your pictures, in the bottom one, the Dragunov on the left side, "standing up", is labeled "Tigr".
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combination of dyslexia, fat fingers, and brain out running my fingers. i've been seeing posts i've made all over today like that.
No, not what you wrote - the Cyrillic in the actual ad reads "Tigr". I had to learn Cyrillic script to read Russian maps, but don't know enough Russian to actually translate it all the way into English. Once upon a time, Russian maps were the most accurate and up to date tactical and strategic maps of Afghanistan. Even the CIA had nothing in print to rival them.
I think the Russians also have a camouflage pattern named "tigr". It looks like a cross between Vietnamese tiger stripe with Portuguese "brush stroke" camo from the old days in Angola.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
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