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what weapons are the Cobra officers supposed to be using?
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02-14-2022, 12:11 PM
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Hasbro gave the troopers the Dragunov sniper rifle and the officers the AK-47 or AKM.
A lot of people over the years have pointed out that you’d expect infantrymen to have assault rifles like the AK-47, and then your more highly trained soldiers serving as officers might have a more specialized weapon like a sniper rifle. So, a lot of people have argued that Hasbro’s assignment of weapons seems backwards, or (since the officer has the chest rig for more AK ammo) that Hasbro gave the right gun to the right figure but named the figures in a backwards way.
Obviously anybody can think what they like, but the way I like to explain it is that early Cobra emphasized ambushes and terroristic assassinations rather than infantry operations. Given the size and capability of the US armed forces and the likelihood that many of Cobra’s potential recruits might be there primarily for the cruelty and opportunity for personal gain, rather than as philosophical ideologues or religious zealots willing to die for their beliefs, i think it does make a lot of sense that early Cobra had only a smaller number of hard core true believers who’d be willing to stand their ground in a pitched firefight with an AK.
As far as the SKS, having those rifles in Cobra make sense (like maybe all the residents of Springfield get their own at a certain age or after a Cobra initiation?), but they weren’t a part of the original figure series. Same goes for RPGs.
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