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Not enough guns for you soldier…the plane has them all
I’m pretty sure I’ve made this in GMod or Besiege before.
79,000 rpm/88 guns = 897.7 rpm/gun, but Wikipedia has the PPSh-41 rate of fire listed as 1250 rpm, which would make this 110,000 rpm.
But, that drum magazine only has 71 rounds, so you could get 110,000 rpm for about 3 seconds… and then what? Fly back to base so you can swap out 88 individual drum magazines?
Some real redneck engineering energy.
I have to think those would be a very bumpy 3 seconds, and that it would probably be cheaper and easier to just use artillery and/or bombs.
Russians love their redneck engineering.
(The rate of fire might’ve been lower in this configuration, for whatever reason.)
It’s ww1 thinking. Aerial darts were fairly effective, not really damage wise but fear wise. They imagined the save idea but it doesn’t have the same effect since they aren’t that loud and visually don’t make a s much of an impact as seeing you homeboy suddenly turned into a gruesome pincushion.
It’s safer than putting 88 people in the line of fire with the same circumstances. Theres the whole it’s less accurate angle, but its safer, man power not put in line of fire could be used to reload and swap magazines.
This thing is getting shot down the second it comes into view. It’s never going to even get close enough to an enemy formation to be used effectively.
The biggest reasons this straight sucks are: identification of friendlies/civilians from the air, not getting blown up at extremely low altitudes, how crazy spread out everything in real life combat
Those reasons would apply to any air based anti-ground operations, even perfectly normal bomber or attacker planes.
The spread of an explosive bomb is WAY more than a bullet. So you only bomb places you know there are no friendlies unless you’re using forward facing guns
A WWII brrrrt gun. Interesting.
Imagine being the ammo guy hand reloading all those drum magazines though between sorties.
That’s just one reason why this is completely impractical.
So, wait… Are the machine guns being fired or simply dropped onto the enemy? 🤔
It’s a soviet design, so…yes, maybe?
Holy close air support, Batman.
Can someone calculate max theoretical thrust from firing these?
For an AK47 it’d be 57.2N, so probably a bit less times 88, totalling something below 5000N or so for the ejected bullets, plus 30% for gas n stuff.
I highly recommend the xkcd in any case.
