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A Russian MPL-50 entrenching tool. (Wikimedia Commons) With the Russian military a veritable dumpster fire of a fighting force, it’s no surprise that dismounted soldiers have been stuck with ...
The MPL-50 entrenching tool used for hand-to-hand combat has been used by generations of Russian soldiers for more than 150 years. Primary Menu Sections US News ...
There’s a famous Marine Corps story from the Vietnam War, where a Marine got a confirmed kill with a small collapsible shovel, called an entrenching tool, or E-tool. Here's what really happened.
Russian soldiers were told to fight with only "firearms and shovels," the Ministry of Defence said; The shovels are believed to be the MPL-50 entrenching tool, designed in1869, said the UK ministry.
Using the entrenching tool, “little changed since it was designed in 1869,” highlighted the brutal and low-tech fighting which has come to characterise the year-long war between Russia and ...
Russian reservists could be using "shovels" for "hand-to-hand" combat in Ukraine due to a shortage of ammunition, the UK's Ministry of Defence says. In late February, reservists described being ...