NATO's interest in various types of Russian weapons and military equipment is well known. This is natural when it comes to the latest combat aircraft, missile systems, and combat vehicles. But according to foreign press reports, some NATO armies are seriously interested... the trench tool of our soldiers. Close attention of some experts was caused by an ordinary small sapper shovel (MSL), with which every private of the Russian Army is familiar. According to the American press, several companies specializing in the supply of equipment for the US Army, "developed on the model and likeness of genuine Russian sapper shovels "shovel" for special forces." It, like the MSL, has a wide flat blade, but is made of a special strong but light alloy with three sharpened edges.

According to the prospectus of the American company "Spesial Projekts", the shovel can be used not only for digging trenches and trenches, but also used as a weapon: a knife, a cleaver, a battle axe. There is information that even a special instruction is being developed for the use of the scapula in combat and during special operations.

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