Yemeni Houthi rebels suspected of damaging underwater Red Sea cables responsible for 17% of global internet traffic

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Yemeni Houthi rebels suspected of damaging underwater Red Sea cables responsible for 17% of global internet traffic
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Regular bullets fired out of regular firearms basically disintegrate in water. Counter-intuitively, putting more energy into a bullet only worsens the results, making it stop even faster.

Underwater firearms do exist, but they are not common, and even they have incredibly limited range. As far as I know, none have effective range greatly exceeding 50 meters, let alone 100.

Whaaat I didn't know they made those!

*googles

Looks like Russia made one during the Cold War for frogmen firefights (<-wild) At a depth of 15 ft, its effective range was 99 ft!! The deeper you go the worse it gets though, and it totally sucks on land too

Frogmen Firefights

*edit 99 ft, not 909 :(

Every source I can find mentions maximum effective range at 15ft to be ~98 feet, not 909. So that zero in the middle is probably a typo, if I had to guess.

Whoosh, that was not a serious suggestion. More on the noncredible side, as a fact.