Splash, Splash, You're Dead: The Military's Next-Gen Water Gun - WIRED

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"Now the U.S. military is quietly developing a new generation of underwater weaponry capable of warding off undersea trespassers with liquid bullets.

It's a revival of an underwater arms race that was hot during the Cold War, when Western scientists sometimes struggled to match Russian technology. The Soviet threat was estimated to include some three thousand Special Forces frogmen -- an opponent virtually impervious to traditional arms.

Normal guns will work underwater, but the drag slows bullets right down. "I have tried it myself in our pool," says Scott Greenbaum, a Certified Glock Armourer and webmaster at GlockFAQ.com. "The bullets only traveled about 15 feet.""

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/06/underwater_guns

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