not caring here posted:

There is absolutely no way in the world that monstrosity has them firing in the same area after a couple hundred metres.... which makes me wonder whether it's terrible, or awesome.

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The 100th Machine Gun Company was among the first to put into practice this long-range barrage technique — at High Wood during the bloody Battle of the Somme between July and November 1916. The company fired a staggering 1,000,000 rounds in just 12 hours.

That’s 10 rounds every three seconds for each of the company’s seven operational guns.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=425ywoLJgqA

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Hot Karl Marx posted:

I think they also had s bomber that filled it's bomb bay with ppsh-41's. Like 90 of them.

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Two Soviet ground personnel, crew chief AV Nadashkevich and lead engineer S. Saveliev thought of an idea to add a removable cassette containing a number of submachine guns to the bottom of a Tu-2 in late 1944.

The Tupolev had both a bomb bay (for up to 3300-pounds of bombs) and could carry another 5,000-pounds in under-wing hard points. This bomb bay was chosen to accept instead of explosives, a wooden skid that held first 48 and finally 88 PPSh-41 submachine guns, oriented to fire downward. Arranged in 11 rows of eight guns each, the entire affair could be preloaded in the workshop and then raised into the bomb bay of the plane with ropes. A special sight was installed in the cockpit that allowed the pilot to line up the target before depressing a solenoid that fired all 88 of the subguns at once. It’s unclear who named it, but it’s gone down in history as the Fire Hedgehog, for obvious reasons. The single experimental plane that carried it was designated a Tu-2Sh.

At a rate of fire of 900 rounds per minute (x88 PPSh-41’s mounted on the cassette), you have a theoretical rate for fire of 79,200 rounds per minute. That’s a lot of firepower, in fact, its 1,320 rounds per second. Of course, each of the mounted subguns only had a 71-round drum mag, which allowed for just over 4-seconds of fire, but before you could say supercalifrangibleballistics, that’s 6248-rounds of incendiary steel-core ammo fired on your head.

With the maximum speed of about 250mph when loaded, the Tu-2Sh could dump these six thousand rounds out over a space of about 1800-feet long and about four feet wide, almost certainly hitting anything inside that kill box. It was thought that the best target for this type of attack would be on a German train. It could strafe the entire length of one from engine to caboose and in seconds turn the whole affair into Swiss cheese, with a Russian aftertaste.

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Godholio posted:

Angle of attack. I'm not sure what makes it show up at that point vs already being on, though.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mixAYpdZwRE

chitoryu12 posted:

New Battlefield looking good.

Phil Moscowitz posted:

I'm watching on my phone, but did that guy just climb up and shoot a loving RPG into the turret BF2 style? Holy poo poo

E. Watching closer it's not an RPG, rifle launched grenade?

chitoryu12 posted:

I don't think any launched grenade would have detonated from that distance (and it would have killed the shooter anyway), but incendiary 7.62x39mm ammo is everywhere so it may have been that.

my kinda ape posted:

How are the Iraqis so *incredibly* bad at fighting?

chitoryu12 posted:

Compilation of GoPro close combat footage from ISIS soldiers. Obviously, for killing (both the cameramen's victims and the cameramen themselves). Some pretty crazy footage from a variety of sources. One dude gets his hand perforated by grenade shrapnel and doesn't seem too bothered.