• S410@kbin.social
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      8 months ago

      Regular bullets fired out of regular firearms basically disintegrate in water. Counter-intuitively, putting more energy into a bullet only worsens the results, making it stop even faster.

      Underwater firearms do exist, but they are not common, and even they have incredibly limited range. As far as I know, none have effective range greatly exceeding 50 meters, let alone 100.

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        8 months ago

        Whaaat I didn’t know they made those!

        *googles

        Looks like Russia made one during the Cold War for frogmen firefights (<-wild) At a depth of 15 ft, its effective range was 909 ft!! The deeper you go the worse it gets though, and it totally sucks on land too

        Frogmen Firefights

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          8 months ago

          Every source I can find mentions maximum effective range at 15ft to be ~98 feet, not 909. So that zero in the middle is probably a typo, if I had to guess.