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Story summary
- Russia installed Kord 12.7 mm machine guns on Marshal Vasilevskiy's wheelhouse in the Baltic Sea.
- The guns fire ten rounds per second and reach targets two kilometres away.
- The vessel, which has shuttled between Bolshoy Bor harbour and Kaliningrad, carries at least 24 passengers who hold Russian army or FSB IDs.
- Commander Jens Wenzel Kristoffersen warned guns make boarding a gas tanker risky because a stray shot could ignite the cargo.
