The Old Grammar Steam Iron Guns

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It's not an official part of equipment that gets issued. It only gets issued to territorial defense units for very specific requests. The ukranians do have a large number of other more modern machine guns, but those are overwhelmingly russian. Do you expect the m 19 ten to go back into marth bals, or do you think they'll keep using it as long as it's a defensive war?

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