• killpunchdeluxe@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You know if they don’t post a vid showing off some shiny new submersible soon, then they probably went about it in the jankiest way possible

    100 meters is pretty deep for scuba diving too…

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          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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            1 year 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 99 ft!! The deeper you go the worse it gets though, and it totally sucks on land too

            Frogmen Firefights

            *edit 99 ft, not 909 :(

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              1 year 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.

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            1 year ago

            Whoosh, that was not a serious suggestion. More on the noncredible side, as a fact.