This style of knife is believed to have been used by Soviets. It used a compressed spring to launch the knife from the body (top) when a firing button was depressed.

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    I looked it up. It might be a translation mistake, spetznaz can be used on occasion as basically saying someone is a part of any official but irregular force. Russians might call Seal Team 6 ‘american spetznaz’.

    But I think, if Wikipedia can be trusted, modern Russian Spetznaz are equivalent to a mix of American Navy Seals and the FBI’s HRT but the Soviet Spetznaz might have been something more like the CIA’s MACV SOG.

    Any Russian/Soviet experts please correct me if I’m wrong.

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      11 months ago

      FBI’s HRT

      I screamed for years and years about the FBIs super femboy program and you all laughed.

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        Hostage rescue team, that one’s on me. Most people probably haven’t heard of them should have spelled it out.