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	The APS Special Underwater Assault Rifle
		The APS was developed as a combat diver weapon intended as a personal weapon for usage under water mainly against the enemy divers.
		Until the development of the APS Russian combat divers were armed with a usual firearms which could not be used under the water.
		It's range of effective fire on the air is similar to the AK-74 Assault Rifle and under the water - to the APS Rifle.
	www.enemyforces.com /firearms/aps.htm (654 words)

	AR15.COM :: Weapon Library :: APS
		The APS Underwater Assault Rifle is a derivative of the AK47, designed in the Soviet Union in the early 1970's for use underwater by frogmen or combat swimmers.
		As a result, this rifle fires a steel bolt caliber 5.66mm (especially designed for this rifle and is often mistaken as 5.56mm) and 120 mm (4.75 in) long.
		The APS has more stopping power against anti-frogman dolphins, but for most underwater fights, Russian commando frogmen prefer the pistol, which is more compact and easier to store away.
	www.ar15.com /weaponLibrary/index.html?wc=9&w=47 (325 words)

	rec.guns FAQ: III.D.2.b.0. 5.66mm Model MPS
		The 5.66 mm APS underwater assault rifle is a selective-fire, gas-operated rifle.
		The projectile is a dart, drag stabilized, which is held in a cartridge that appears to be based on the 5.56 x 45 mm NATO cartridge.
		The underwater range is 30 m at 5 m depth, and 11 m at 40 m depth.
	www.recguns.com /Sources/IIID2b0.html (158 words)

	APS, Underwater Assault Rifle
		APS Underwater Assault Rifle is intended for combat actions and self-defence from dangerous sea predators.
		The rifle is loaded with MPS cartridge to hit underwater targets from the above-water position and vice versa.
		At limit ranges in water the rifle ensures defeat of an enemy wearing a water suit with porolone padding and protected with a 5 mm thick organic glass.
	www.spetsnaztraining.com /view/aps (148 words)

	Modern Firearms - APS underwater assault rifle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The APS is designed for special underwater cartridges, which fire 5.66 mm needle-like projectiles 120 mm long.
		The APS itself is a relatively crude, smoothbore arm, with a gas operated, rotating bolt action, fired from an open bolt.
		According to the available sources, the expected service life of the APS when fired "in the air" degrades severely, and the effective range is limited only to several tens of meters.
	world.guns.ru /assault/as69-e.htm (364 words)

	AR15.COM :: Product Reviews
		The APS was developed during the cold war as a special purpose weapon for Russian Spetsnaz divers.
		The projectile itself is a 120mm drag stabilized dart that travels at 365 meters a second in the air, and 250 meters a second underwater at a five meter depth.
		The APS is produced at the Tula ordinance plant.
	www.ar15.com /content/products/ak/aps (260 words)

	Mils End Weapons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The designers began with the Kalashnikov rifle as the basis for their work, but quickly found that although the AK would work underwater, the bullets had virtually no effective range and suffered from gross inaccuracy.
		The APS fires from the open bolt to allow the barrel to fill with water, which is necessary to its reliable operation with the rod-shaped bullets it fires.
		The range of the APS is dependent on the depth at which it is fired: the deeper, the shorter the effective range.
	www.millenniumsend.net /MCN/weapons/g_aps.html (467 words)

	Splash, Splash, You're Dead: The Military's Next-Gen Water Gun
		Underwater, a blunt projectile forces the water away on either side of it.
		It is more compact than the Underwater Defense Gun and half the weight, and even now is standard issue for Russian combat divers, including a section of the Presidential Security Service that patrols the flooded sewers connecting the Kremlin to the Moskva River.
		Perhaps the most intriguing hint of where the underwater arms race is headed comes from a 2005 U.S. patent granted to Thomas J. Gieseke, a Navy scientist at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center.
	wired.com /science/discoveries/news/2007/06/underwater_guns (1238 words)

	APS Underwater Assault Rifle 5.56 mm - Definition, explanation
		The APS Underwater Assault Rifle (5.56 mm) is a derivative of the AK47, designed and made in Russia in the early 1970's for use underwater by frogmen.
		Its range decreases with increasing depth, presumably due to increasing backward suction caused by cavitation behind the projectile.
		This is useful in such situations as shooting through reinforced drysuits, and protective (not air-holding) helmets, and thick tough parts of breathing sets and their harnesses, and plastic casings and transparent covers of some small underwater vehicles.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/ap/aps_underwater_assault_rifle_5_56_mm.php (284 words)

	Arsenal. Small arms. Assault rifle APS Underwater Rifle (Russia)
		While the German firm Heckler & Koch produces a specialised underwater pistol, the P11, no known Western manufacturer produces an underwater rifle of any type.The APS was designed by a team headed by Vladimir Simonov, the nephew of Sergei Simonov, designer of the ubiquitous SKS carbine.
		The APS fires from the open bolt to allow the barrel to fill with water, which is necessary to its reliable operation with the rod-shaped bullets it fires.The range of the APS is dependent on the depth at which it is fired: the deeper, the shorter the effective range.
		The ships on which the two heads of state met were protected by a 16-man team of divers armed with the APS underwater rifle.It is not known how many, if any, APS rifles have been sold on the international arms market to Western users.
	topgun.rin.ru /cgi-bin/units.pl?field=92&unit=2126&lng=eng (360 words)

	1.2 Patch - Point of Existence Forum
		The Speargun, APS rifle and the posion gas are the items that didn't make it into BF2 SF.
		Although they are different rifles, I feel the M82 won't add much.
		The weights for the rifles in a lot of sources are for the rifle alone, not the scope, scope rings, bipod,.
	www.pointofexistence.com /forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=31877 (842 words)

	Modern Firearms - IMI Galil assault rifle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The FAL rifles were too sensitive to fine sand and dust of Arab deserts, and too long and bulky to carry and maneuver.
		The latter design, based on the Finnish Valmet Rk.62 assault rifle (a license-built AK-47 clone), eventually won the competition and was selected as a new IDF assault rifle in the 1973, but its actual adoption was delayed by the next Israeli-Arab Yom Kippur war of the 1973.
		M16 rifles became the major armament of the IDF, with the Galils mostly issued to the Armored corps, Artillery corps and some units of the Israeli Air Forces.
	world.guns.ru /assault/as23-e.htm (820 words)

	Sea Patrol: actions against uncontrolled sport scuba divers
		Underwater incident in #3 dock :: report #456.8: "I don't want your scoobydoo `hallo' signals, I want you OUT of the water in our area.
		A university's research submarine has engine trouble and has to stop in a sheltered bay for repairs, and is harassed by underwater wreck-pickers and sightseers, but a Sea Patrol frogman on a Russian-made Protei 5 diver-rider goes into action against them.
		In a harbor: Underwater intruders in a harbor are summarily disposed of.
	www.kuroyumes-developmentzone.com /appleyard/seapatrol/index.htm (2709 words)

	Afrikajagd
		Swimming laps entirely underwater is even more difficult, as water produces 1,000 times more drag resistance than air does.
		New gas is constantly being generated at its nose, while the water vapor condenses again to water behind the tail of the object.
		Various underwater methods of propulsion have been proposed to reach the necessary speed, with a possible concept being a rocket engine burning aluminium with water.
	www.grosswildjagd.de /fundamen.htm (1447 words)

	YouTube - APS Underwater Rifle
		Also, HK makes a pistol with 6 or 8 seperate sealed, water tight breaches and barrels for underwater usage.
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		APS Underwater Rifle Russia Spetsnaz military (more) (less)
	youtube.com /watch?v=yGcxLkNuCdU (187 words)

	AstroRoach: APS Underwater Assault Rifle
		If you look at the front end of the needle-like projectiles you'll see they don't come to a sharp point, but are blunt.
		This creates super-cavitation allowing the projectile to travel in a bubble of gas and giving it a range of up to 30 meters underwater!
		The gun can also be fired in the air if necessary.
	astroroach.blogspot.com /2007/06/aps-underwater-assault-rifle.html (186 words)

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	Soviet APS, Underwater Assult Rifle, WTK???
		While I don't consider myself an expert I feel that I am pretty knowledgeable on the guns of the world.
		I had never seen or heard of the APS rifle before or for that matter any system like it.
		So, the APS is useful only under the water, where it is quite effective."
	www.subguns.com /boards/mgmsgarchive.cgi?noframes;read=439191 (342 words)

	SALERNO
		They were on the beach that bloody morning and we'd like to share their stories with the readers.
		The heavy-duty pumps also proved very efficient, but in all future operations they should be left ashore with the Beach Battalion, instead of being returned to the APs as it was proven after the assault transports had left, a definite need for these was necessary due to LCTs having holes punched in them.
		Four of these pumps were left after the APs had sailed, and at one time all of these pumps were in use on various LCTs with holes in them.
	www.4thbeachbattalion.com /salerno.htm (5526 words)

	APS Underwater Rifle [Archive] - THR
		THR > Tools and Technologies > Rifle Country > APS Underwater Rifle
		October 14th, 2006, 07:09 PM These things look extremely entertaining.
		Rate of fire: 600 rounds per minute (in air)
	www.thehighroad.org /archive/index.php/t-227878.html (182 words)

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